Dan Graham

Dan Graham

Dan Graham, Performer/Audience/Mirror, 1977. Filmstill. Netherlands Media Art Institute. Collection de Appel, Amsterdam

Performer/Audience/Mirror, 1977

8 pm

Dan Graham (born 1942) is an influential figure in the field of contemporary art, both a practitioner and an art critic and theorist. Graham especially focuses on the relationship between artwork and viewer in his pieces. In his early performance Performer/Audience/Mirror Graham examines not only his own movements and makes the public participate in it, he also transforms the audience into actors and reproaches the mirror to the people so that they start to observe the artist and themselves. Kölnischer Kunstverein shows the documentation of the performance at De Appel Institute, Amsterdam in 1977.