Editing Performance art (section)

=== Performance in a political context ===
In the mid-1970s, behind the Iron Curtain, in major Eastern Europe cities such as [[Budapest]], [[Kraków]], Belgrade, [[Zagreb]], [[Novi Sad]] and others, scenic arts of a more experimental content flourished. Against political and social control, different artists who made performance of political content arose. [[Orshi Drozdik]]'s performance series, titled ''Individual Mythology'' 1975–77 and the ''NudeModel'' 1976–77. All her actions were critical of the patriarchal discourse in art and the forced emancipation programme and constructed by the equally patriarchal state.<ref>{{cite web|first=Orsolya|last=Orshi Drozdik|title=Sensuality and Matter|url=http://budapestgaleria.hu/_/en/2018-exhibitions/orsolya-orshi-drozdik-sensuality-and-matter/|publisher=Budapest Gallery|date=September 2018|access-date=June 12, 2020}}</ref> Drozdik showed a pioneer and feminist point of view on both, becoming one of the precursors of this type of critical art in Eastern Europe.<ref>{{cite web|title=Orshi Drozdik|url=https://www.mutualart.com/Artist/Orshi-Drozdik/A46119C2D5D34177|date=2016|access-date=June 12, 2020}}</ref> In the 1970s, performance art, due to its fugacity,{{clarify|date=July 2020|reason=not an English word}} had a solid presence in the Eastern European avant-garde, specially in Poland and Yugoslavia, where dozens of artists who explored the body conceptually and critically emerged.

[[File:Tehching Hsieh Cage Piece (1).jpg|left|thumb|Cell where [[Tehching Hsieh]] carried out his endurance art work; the piece is now in the Modern Art Museum of New York collection]]