The ongoing development of the audiovisual media since the second half of the 20th century allowed for a creative, interchanging dialogue between dance performance and the Fine Arts. Dancers and artists of the American Avantgarde questioned the traditional relationship between music and body. They were looking for a new connection to the audience, one that turns the process itself into a work of art.
With about 100 artistic works, documentary texts and film stills as well as coloured illustrations of video- and sculptural installations the catalogue observes the interchanging references, the similarities and cooperations. Single texts discuss works by:
John Cage, Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, Nam June Paik, Robert Morris, Yvonne Rainer, Bruce Nauman, Erwin Wurm, Dan Graham and Rebecca Horn, among others.
