direct art.
a working history of 'performance' art, for my archival purposes:
birth: 1954 Jiro Yoshihara- Gutai Group
1954: Georges Mathieu, Shigeko Kubota
1957: Guy Debord, Michele Bernstein, Attaila Kotanyi, Raoul Vaneigem, Giuseppe Pinot-Gallizio -Situationist International
1952: John Cage, Robert Rauschenberg, Merce Cunningham, David Tudor, Charles Olson- Black Mountain College-
1959: Allan Kaprow, Al Hansen, Robert Whitman, Dick Higgins, Jackson Mac Low, George Brecht -happenings
1964: Carloee Schneemann, Jean-Jacques Lebel
1966: Raphael Montanez Ortiz- Guerrilla Art Action Group
1957: Wolf Vostell- Fluxus
1962: Ben Vautier
1962: Milan Knizak, Jan Mach, Vit Mach, Sonja Svecova, Jan Trtilek and Zdenka Zizkova - AKTUAL
1960s: Hermann Nitsch, Otto Muhl, Gunter Brus, Rudolf Schwarzkolger
1970s- 1980s: Valie Export, Ulricke Rosenbach, Marina Abramovic, Ulay, Vito Acconci, Laurie Anderson, Spalding Gray, Karen Finley, Chris Burden, Eleanor Antin, Tom Marioni, Suzanne Lacy, Adrian Piper, Martha Wilson, Lucy Lippard, Jacki Apple, Cindy Sherman,
1990s: Homi K Bhabha