Performance: Did you ever want to be someone else?

Mark Wallinger’s contribution to this year’s Turner Prize is Sleeper (2004-05), a film of a performance in which, over a period of 10 nights, he dressed in a bear suit and wandered aimlessly around an art gallery in Berlin, startling unsuspecting passers-by.  He relives the long nights for TateShot…

This performance recreates the groundbreaking work of Brazilian artist Hélio Oiticica. Frustrated by the limitations of painting, Oiticica devoted himself to finding ways in which painting could be taken off the gallery walls and out into 3-dimensional space. One result was his ‘Parangolés’ of the …

‘The Fight’, a boxing, music and dance performance, was conceived by Panamanian-born artist, Humberto Vélez. More than 100 amateur boxers from South London boxing clubs took over Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall for a series of bouts in the ring, with music by MC Mic Assassin and choreography by street d…

Matei Bejenaru put out a call to fellow Romanian nationals, asking them to gather as a crowd outside Tate Modern to take part in a public performance. Here he introduces his own film of the event, Together (2007). Bejenaru is one of the artists in the exhibition The Irresistible Force, at Tate Mode…