High Performance #24 Vol, VI, No. 4, 1983
Features: Ant Farm, Lucinda Childs, No Se No, Doo Dah Parade, Harvey Kubernik, 19th Century Protoperformance, The Church of The Subgenius, Teaching Performance in Montana. Interviews: Stelarc, Philip Glass, Zev. On the cover: Stelarc
High Performance #25 Vol. VII, No. 1, 1984
Special Report: Performance in England and Ireland. Features: Artist Call Against U.S. Intervention In Central America, Nancy Buchanan & Nicaragua, Kim Jones & Vietnam, Rolando Pena & The Oil Game. On the cover: Nancy Buchanan
High Performance #26 Vol. VII, No. 2, 1984
Special Report: Live Art in Los Angeles - The TV Generation, Hollywood Performance, Michael Kelley, Suzanne Lacy, Olympic World Poetry Festival, 5-Minute Performance Olympics, Rachel Rosenthal's D.B.D. Experience, Jac Mote. L.A. Music Dance Film & Video. Features:...
High Performance #27 Vol. VII, No. 3, 1984
Special Feature: Olympic Arts Festival (Pina Bausch, Sankaijuku, Le Theatre Du Soleil, Nightfire, Cricot 2, Twyla Tharp, National Video Festival). Features: Linda Montano/Tehching Hsieh, Jim Carroll, Nihilist Olympics, Penelope Spheeris, Electronic Cafe, Chris Burden,...
High Performance #28 Vol. VII, No. 4, 1984
Features: Parodying Parody (Andy Kaufman, Ernie Kovacs and The San Francisco International Video Festival, American Film Institute Video Festival), Jacki Apple, Deep Inside Porn Stars, Genqui Numata, Live Art In Mexico City, Komar and Melamid, Doron Gazit, Orlan,...
High Performance #29 Vol. VIII, No. 1, 1985
Feature: Paul McCarthy (essay, interview and chronology). Other features: Next Wave Festival in New York, Spalding Gray (Traveling Through New England, Swimming to Cambodia), Imploring Silence, Vanalyne Green, Target Video, Glenn Branca, Salon Bon Ton. On the cover:...
High Performance #30 Vol. VIII, No. 2, 1985
Special Report: Almost Live Art (installations, kinetic sculpture, street works) - L.A. Art Talks Back, Charles Ray, Capp Street Project, Survival Research Laboratories, Public Sculpture and Performance. Features: Notes on Three Erections, NAAO Convention in Houston....
High Performance #31 Vol. VIII, No. 3, 1985
Special Report: Experimental Music in America - A History of New Music, New Music in L.A., World Music, Sound Sculpture, Cross-Overs. New Music Festival Catalog. On the cover: Marsha Mann
High Performance #32 Vol. VIII, No. 4, 1985
Features: Bob & Bob, What Time Is Live Art, Tom Marioni, Art and Death In Seattle, Lynn Hershman, Performance in Vancouver, El Teatro Campesino, John Giorno, Lev Nussberg. On the cover: Bob & Bob
High Performance #33 Vol. IX, No. 1, 1986
Features: Joseph Beuys, Michael Smith, Subversive Acts, Godfrey Reggio, Art in a Community Context, Butoh, Banff Art Centre, Michel Lemieux, Anna Halprin. On the cover: Joseph Beuys
High Performance #34 Vol. IX, No. 2, 1986
Features: Lily Tomlin and Jane Wagner, Terrorism and Performance, Commerce On The Edge, San Francisco's Visual Theater, Marina Abramovic and Ulay, Spalding Gray/Eric Bogosian/Bill Irwin. On the cover: Lily Tomlin
High Performance #35 Vol. IX, No. 3, 1986
Features: Special Issue on Latino Art - A New Artistic Continent, The Artist As Citizen, Art With A Chicano Accent (Chicano Art In Los Angeles), Other features: Regina Vater, Marie-Judite Dos Santos, Catalina Parra, Yellow Springs Institute. On the cover: Artwork by...
High Performance #36 Vol. IX, No. 4, 1986
Special Report: Art & Crisis - AIDS and the Gay Politic, Plato's Symposium, interview with David Schweizer, Convergence of Art and Crisis, Common Knowledge, Tim Miller and Douglas Sadownick, John Greyson, Michelle Paymar. On the Cover: Art and AIDS
High Performance #37 Vol. X, No. 1, 1987
Special Report: Video Art/Video Alternatives - Low-Level Content/Fast-Moving Ads, Video Art an Historical Sketch, A Few Arguments for the Appropriation of Television, Videowochen, Interactive Media and Human Response, Douglas Davis' "Menage A Trois," Robert Edgar, Kit...
High Performance #38 Vol. X, No. 2, 1987
Features: John Cage Interviews, The Wooster Group, Sherman Fleming, LA's Poet Innovators, Postmodern Dance Gets Balleticized, Artists and their Dreams, Kwiek/Kulik. On the cover: John Cage
High Performance #39 Vol. X, No. 3, 1987
Features: The Los Angeles Festival, Fringe Festival/Los Angeles, David Fulton, Charles Noyes, David Linton and Samm Bennett, Tony Labat, Documenta, Pipeline Theater, Marcel Duchamp, Jerri Allyn. On the cover: The L.A. Festival
High Performance #40 Vol. X, No. 4, 1987
Special Report: Art/Environment/Ecology - The Guerrilla Theater of Greenpeace, Helen & Newton Harrison, Public Art, Earth Art, Art & Ceremony, Bene Fonteles and Luis Diaz On the cover: Greenpeace
High Performance #41/2 Vol. XI, Nos. 1/2, 1988
Special Tenth Anniversary Double Issue: 90 Artists Discuss the Function of Art in Culture Today. Plus: Ana Mendieta, Karen Finley, Portuguese Performance Festival, Women's Art Issues, Ten-Year Index. On the cover: HP#1, Suzanne Lacy
High Performance #43 Vol. XI, No. 3, 1988
Features: Los Angeles Poverty Department, Allan Kaprow Retrospective, Chris Burden Retrospective, WPA's "Cut/Across," Piotr Rypson, Omaha Magic Theatre, Performance Art and Shamanism, Art Billboards On the cover: Los Angeles Poverty Department
High Performance #44 Vol. XI, No. 4, 1988
Features: Irish Performance Art Festival, London's Edge 88 Experimental Art Festival, Lin Hixson and Goat Island, Installation-Events in Tokyo, Art and the Law, From Hugo Ball to Hugo Largo On the cover: Andre Stitt
High Performance #45 Vol. XII, No. 1, 1989
Features: Urban Bush Women, Ja Kyung Rhee and Hye Sook of Theatre 1981, Molissa Fenley, Performance and Film Works of Valie Export, David Antin's The Fringe. On the cover: Urban Bush Women