Editing Performance art (section)

=== Performance art from a political context ===
In the 1980s, the political context played an important role in the artistic development and especially in performance, as almost every one of the works created with a critical and political discourse were in this discipline. Until the decline of the European Eastern bloc during the late 1980s, performance art had actively been rejected by most communist governments. With the exception of Poland and Yugoslavia, performance art was more or less banned in countries where any independent public event was feared. In the GDR, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Latvia it happened in apartments, at seemingly spontaneous gatherings in artist studios, in church-controlled settings, or was covered as another activity, like a photo-shoot. Isolated from the western conceptual context, in different settings it could be like a playful protest or a bitter comment, using subversive metaphors to express dissent with the political situation.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://perfomap.de/current/kart/reclaiming-the-invisible|title=Reclaiming the Invisible Past of Eastern Europe|access-date=March 1, 2011|last=Zajanckauska|first=Zane|author2=Interview with Ieva Astahovska|publisher=map – media archive performance|archive-date=April 16, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110416151339/http://perfomap.de/current/kart/reclaiming-the-invisible|url-status=dead}}</ref> Amongst the most remarkable performance art works of political content in this time were those of [[Tehching Hsieh]] between July 1983 and July 1984, ''Art/Life: One Year Performance'' (Rope Piece).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://perfomap.de/current/kart/reclaiming-the-invisible|title=Reclaiming the Invisible Past of Eastern Europe|access-date=March 23, 2011|last=Zajanckauska|first=Zane|author2=Interview with Ieva Astahovska|publisher=map – media archive performance|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110416151339/http://perfomap.de/current/kart/reclaiming-the-invisible|archive-date=April 16, 2011}}</ref>