This website provides information about re.act.feminism, an ongoing archive and research project exploring the multitemporal forcefield of feminism(s) and performance art. It began with the exhibition and performance program
re.act.feminism - performance art of the 1960s and 70s today in Berlin, Erfurt and Ljubljana 2008-2009, featuring more than 70 artists focussing on re-enactment, re-appropriation and re-performance. It continued with
re.act.feminism #2 - a performing archive travelling through six European countries from 2011 to 2013 accompanied by online and print publications. The second edition explored the living performance archive as a site for collaborative research and action and featured more than 180 artists and collectives. Its third iteration
re.act.feminism #3 – polyphonies. interferences. drifts has been launched in 2022 and will unfold in several digital chapters. It aims to gradually update and expand the project’s website - a valuable digital archive and research tool providing information on all participating artists and individual works.
"re.act.feminism is a project of immense importance for the recent history of art worldwide. The publication re.act.feminism – a performing archive is a further precious manifestation and documentation of the brilliant work that has been done by cross links e.V. in the fields of research and archive, of theory and discourse, and, in curating performances and exhibitions of feminist art, thereby giving evidence of this most crucial artistic and political contribution."
Silvia Eiblmayr, curator and author, Vienna
"This comprehensive, thoroughly researched archive offers a compelling argument for re-locating feminism (in all its forms) as a fundamental force, shaping the political dynamics of performance art from its formative years up to the present. Simultaneously, the impressive range of works and variety of artists surveyed makes this volume an essential contribution to the understanding of performance art’s centrality to feminism’s tactics, strategies and discourses."
André Lepecki, Associate Professor, Department of Performance Studies, New York University
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In 2014, after seven exhibitions across Europe and numerous events - we published the re.act.feminism book. It explores feminist, gender-related and queer performance art by over 180 artists and artist collectives from the 1960s to the beginning of the 1980s, as well as contemporary positions from Eastern and Western Europe, the Mediterranean, the Middle East, the USA and Latin America. With essays by curators and scholars Kathrin Becker, Mathias Danbolt, Eleonora Fabião, Bettina Knaup, Laima Kreivytė / Oxana Sarkisyan / Mare Tralla / Reet Varblane, Laurence Rassel / Linda Valdés, Angelika Richter and Rebecca Schneider, several visual essays, more than 200 illustrations, the biographies of all the 180+ participating artists and an appendix with German translations.
publication re.act.feminism – a performing archive
edited by Bettina Knaup & Beatrice E. Stammer, published by Verlag für moderne Kunst Nürnberg and Live Art Development Agency London, 2014. Design:
Katrin Schoof
17,5 x 24 cm, colour photos throughout, 320 pages, 29,- €
For ordering the book please write us an e-mail:
info[ ]reactfeminism.org
You can also order the book here:
Live Art Development Agency online shop