Performer and Participant

Action – both individual and collective – is at the heart of the works within this display. Sometimes the work takes the form of a proposal for an action or the record of a past event or performance. Elsewhere viewers are invited to activate an artwork using their bodies. Artworks shown here include a mix of intimate individual acts, choreographed actions in which participants are directed by an artist and political activism.

This permanent activity was devised in response to the Performer and participant display by artist Shepherd Manyika. Echoing a number of artworks in the display that appear as lists, Shepherd shares a core process for his practice, list-making, as a strategy to explore new spaces and create artworks.