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Performance artists create whole worlds. See how performance is able to bring people into a story and bring out society's larger issues.

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Luna
James Luna, a Luiseño from the La Jolla Indian Reservation in north San Diego County, is a performance artist specializing in the unexpected. He considers it his mission to challenge boundaries.
Bodybuilder
Romanian artist Alexandra Croitoru's work seeks to expose and challenge sociological, geo-political and gender power structures in present-day Romania.
As the director of Heidi Duckler Dance Theatre, Heidi Duckler's site-specific productions continue to transform spaces around L.A.--and the world--into metaphorical expressions of her imagination.
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At dusk, local performers and participants will emerge from beneath the shadows of thick Joshua Trees to converge and celebrate the wild, wonderful world of a grassroots, locally-created, regionally-inclusive, do-it-yourself collaborative arts and sust...
A Avant-Garde performance group known as the Industry practice in Atwater
Los Angeles-based artist's work is defined by his upbringing in Japan as a monk at an 800-year-old Buddhist monastery.
O Superman
REDCAT will showcase a collection of iconic music videos from the '80s, each an experiment with a different technique designed to push the boundaries of art video, in a show titled "Music + Image."
Brody Condon Future Gestalt
Artist Brody Condon returns to Machine Project this Thursday night to present "Future Gestalt," a new performance described as a '70s group encounter session set in the far future.
Disappearing Environments
L.A. continues to be both the site and subject for innumerable artworks across the city, from a large-scale performance and public art festival to screenings featuring films about L.A., by L.A. filmmakers.
Theater director Rachel Rosenthal arrives in Los Angeles at a time of incredible artistic energy emanating from places like the Ferus Gallery.
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LA artist Janie Geiser presents an intriguing new "peepshow diorama" starting this week at The Giraffe Space, with puppets, projections and music in a story based on a play be Henrik Ibsen.
Audience and performers inhabit a prison simulation | Photo by Anne Maike Mertnes
California prisons have faced over-crowding for the past 20 years. The U.S. Supreme Court is now discussing the constitutionality of these conditions. In…
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