The Art of Performance 12th Edition present ed as part of High Performance: A 2-Year Conference (2025–2027)\, initiated by the Performance Art Museum\, Los Angeles. It is a mu lti-institutional exploration of the magazine’s enduring impact on contemp orary performance and community. This evening of performance works honors the legacy of High Performance magazine (1978–1997) and the writing of Jac ki Apple. She was the contributing and media arts editor from 1983 to 1995 \, who helped shape the discourse around the emerging performance art scen e in Los Angeles. Apple’s essays combined close observation with cultural and historical context\, positioning interdisciplinary performance as a vi tal form of social and artistic practice. Activating her writing as a cura torial framework\, this three-day residency brings together artists Apple wrote about and championed decades ago\, including artists who continue to create ambitious and powerful performance work\, alongside a new generati on of artists extending and transforming the possibilities of performance art. Through these projects in performance\, sound\, movement and installa tion\, these artists trace connections across histories\, communities and generations\, revealing the ongoing evolution of performance art and its e nduring cultural impact.
The Art of Performance 12th Edition presented as part of High Performance: A 2-Year Conf erence (2025–2027)\, initiated by the Performance Art Museum \, Los Angeles. It is a multi-institutional exploration of the magazine’s enduring impact on contemporary performance and community. This evening of performance works honors the legacy of High Performance magazine (1978–1997) and the writing of Jacki Apple. She was the contributing and media arts editor from 1983 to 1995\, who helped shape the discourse aroun d the emerging performance art scene in Los Angeles. Apple’s essays combin ed close observation with cultural and historical context\, positioning in terdisciplinary performance as a vital form of social and artistic practic e. Activating her writing as a curatorial framework\, this three-day resid ency brings together artists Apple wrote about and championed decades ago\ , including artists who continue to create ambitious and powerful performa nce work\, alongside a new generation of artists extending and transformin g the possibilities of performance art. Through these projects in performa nce\, sound\, movement and installation\, these artists trace connections across histories\, communities and generations\, revealing the ongoing evo lution of performance art and its enduring cultural impact.