High Performance #46 Vol. XII, No. 2, 1989
Features: May Sun's L.A./River/China/Town, interviews with playwright Keith Mason and sculptor Cris Bruch, Indonesian Shadow Puppet Theater, Chico MacMurtrie's Pneumatic Men, Joanna Frueh's Has The Body Lost Its Mind? On the cover: May Sun's "L.A./River/China/Town"
High Performance #47 Vol. XII, No. 3, 1989
Features: Guillermo Gómez-Peña's The Multicultural Paradigm, Carlos Villa's Ritual, interview with Ishmael Reed, Images of Censorship, Multiculturalism and Symbols, Bruce Nauman, Social After Images. On the covers: Essex Hemphill and Wayson Jones
High Performance #48 Vol. XII, No. 4, 1989
Features: Don Adams and Arlene Goldbard's Faith, Reason and the Art of the Future, Jacki Apple's Slouching Towards the Next Millennium, The Artist of The Future, interview with Jaron Lanier, New Work in Video by Four Women, Beth Lapides' Globe-O-Mania, Bill Gordh and...
High Performance #49 Vol. XIII, No. 1, 1990
Features: Diamanda Galas, ACT UP, interview with Elizabeth LeCompte and Ruth Maleczech, Russian Butoh Group Derevo, interview with NAAO's Charlotte Murphy, AFI Video Festival, Alternate ROOTS, interview with Hirokazu Kosaka On the cover: Diamanda Galas
High Performance #50 Vol. XIII, No. 2, 1990
Special Report: Contemporary Arts In Japan - Dumb Type, Saburo Teshigawara and Company Karas, Min Tanaka, Akio Suzuki, Goji Hamada, Ko Nakajima, Yoko Ashikawa and Hakutobo, Masahiko Akuta, Butoh as Another Outbreak of Japanese Paganism. On the cover: New art in Japan
High Performance #51 Vol. XIII, No. 3, 1990
Features: David Wojnarowicz, Holly Hughes Exposes the NEA, Makalo Mofokeng, Hannah Wilke, Peter Cook and Kenny Lerner, Keep Your Fly Buttoned. On the cover: David Wojnarowicz
High Performance #52 Vol. XIII, No. 4, 1990
Features: The Blues Aesthetic, with articles by E. Ethelbert Miller, Wanda Coleman, Keith Antar Mason, Pearl Cleage and interview with Roger "Hollywatts" Smith. A Chronology of Actions, Protests, Censorship and The NEA, Group Material's AIDS Timeline, special coverage...
High Performance #53 Vol. XIV, No. 1, 1991
Features: Nights at the Opera, The Fat Lady Sings, Andy Warhol: The Opera. Interview with Penelope Spheeris, Voyage to Prague, Czech Culture, A Trip to Moscow, The Art of N.S.K., and The Wall Came Tumbling Down. On the cover: Rinde Eckert
High Performance #54 Vol. XIV, No. 2, 1991
Interviews with artist Mark McGinnis and filmmaker Todd Haynes. Features: India Dances Around the Avant-Garde by Lewis Segal, Contemporary Chinese Artists, Six Men by The Bay: Photo Feature, video artists William Bierne and Sara Hornbacher. On the cover: Still from...
High Performance #55 Vol. XIV, No. 3, 1991
Interview with Andres Serrano by Coco Fusco. Features: From Art-Maggedon to Gringo-Stroika by Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Michael Nash & ACT UP/Denver by Lucy Lippard, Interview with Bill T. Jones, photo feature on Burning Art. On the cover: KKK photo by Andres...
High Performance #56 Vol. XIV, No. 4, 1991
Interviews with James Luna and Peter Greenaway. Features: Shigeko Kubota's Video Work, Bruce Odland and Sam Auinger's Citydream in Salzburg, Marlon Riggs on Hollywood, interview with Barbara Trent of Empowerment Project. On the cover: James Luna
High Performance #57 Vol. XV, No. 1, 1992
Special Report: Art & Cyberspace - Patric Hedlund on Virtual Reality Warriors: Native American Culture in Cyberspace and Battle of The Cyberartists, Is It Technology or is It Just Bad Art?, Fascism in the Cyberstate by Gary Meyer. Plus Mehmet Memo Sander Dance...
High Performance Special Issue, 1992
Special Issue: "The Verdict and the Violence." This volume is devoted to the responses of more than 100 artists, writers, teachers, children, parents and gangbangers to the Rodney King verdict and the subsequent L.A. uprising. Guest edited by Wanda Coleman and...
High Performance #58/59 Vol. XV, No. 2/3, 1992
Special Double Issue: Bridges, Translations and Change by William Cleveland, The New World (B)Order by Guillermo Gómez-Peña, American Jihad by Allan Parachini, Theater of Choice, No Humans Involved Project, Prison Art, Gekidan Shiki's Rikoran. Plus profiles of John...
High Performance #60 Vol. XV, No. 4, 1992
Features: Alternative Histories: Artists Challenge the Official Story by Linda Burnham, interview with John W. Outterbridge, Artists Touch the Dial of Public Access TV, Aerosoul Nation Photo Feature. Plus profiles of Cornerstone Theater Company, Liz Lerman, Luis...
High Performance #61 Vol. XVI, No. 1, 1993
Features: The View From Here: Empowering the Children of Guatemala City by Nancy McGirr, Survival Skills for Artists Working in Communities and Social Institutions by William Cleveland, artists Jay Critchley and Jerry Beck, Free Idea Zone: A Black Market of Ideas,...
High Performance #62 Vol. XVI, No. 2, 1993
Features: The San Francisco Art Scene by Christine Tamblyn, Art Faces a Developmental Challenge by Linda Burnham, Water in the West Photo Feature, Hope Diamond by Richard Posner, Cleveland Performance Art Festival. Plus profiles of Rhodessa Jones, Moira Hahn, Domingo...
High Performance #63 Vol. XVI, No. 3, 1993
Features: The Art of Storytelling by Adora Dupree, Violence Art And Hustle by Wanda Coleman, National Storytelling Festival, Swamp Gravy by Richard Geer, Beauty and the (Art) Beast by Jacki Apple, The Free Art Agreement by Guillermo Gómez-Peña. Plus profiles of...
High Performance #64 Vol. XVI, No. 4, 1993
Special Issue: Alternate Roots and the Partnering of Artists and Communities. History of Community Arts by Arlene Goldbard, Community Performance by Richard Geer, Arts as Social Action by Mat Schwarzman, Partnering of Artists and Communities by Nayo Watkins, Critical...
High Performance #65 Vol. XVII, No. 1, 1994
A South African Journal by Laurel Reuter, Literature On The Hoof by Sue Thornton, Kurdish Video Art by Ann Zimmerman, Puerto Rican Performance Festival by Susan Homar, New Public Art in Chicago by Carole Tormollan, plus profiles, news departments and more. On the...
High Performance #66 Vol. XVII, No. 2, 1994
Race and Redemption by Adams and Goldbard, Arts International by Linda Frye Burnham, Performance Art Is Dead by Jacki Apple, photos by Bill Bamberger, Art-21 by Steven Durland plus profiles, news, departments and more. On the cover: Art by Francisco Letelier Table of...