Mika Rottenberg is a sculptor and video arts who builds large, complex sets inhabited by women performing illogical, assembly line tasks. In "Dough", for example, a woman in a tiny room smells flowers to induce hay fever. Her tears run down her legs and through a tiny hole in the floor, where other w

Absurd, Architectural, Feminist, Funny, Grotesque, Kinetic, Physical force, Repetitive

A Softer World is a comic that was created by Emily Horne and Joey Comeau so that people would recognize them as important artistic geniuses. Sometimes the "comic" is sad or harsh. It should be noted that this is in the tradition of George Simenon's 'romans durs' (or 'hard novels') and not in the les

Abstract, Fantastic, Gritty, Kinetic, Overflowing, Severe, Whimsical

Tim Hawkinson was born in San Francisco, California in 1960. A graduate of San Jose State University, he later earned his MFA at the University of California, Los Angeles in 1989. Hawkinson is renowned for creating complex sculptural systems through surprisingly simple means. His installation “Übe

Architectural, Biomorphic, Chance, Deconstructive, Electronic, Enigmatic, Kinetic, Mathematical, Monumental, Physical force, Technology, Voluminous

Tehching HsiehNanjhou, Pingtung County, Taiwan) was a noted New York City-based performance artist; he has been called a “master” by another performance artist, Marina Abramović. Tehching Hsieh dropped out from high school and started creating art in the form of paintings; he went on to creat

Conceptual, Improvised, In-your-face, Kinetic