performance art

Passings: Theatre scholar Lisa Wolford Wylam was a specialist in contemporary performance

York is mourning the loss of Professor Lisa Wolford Wylam, who died suddenly on Sunday, Oct. 9 while visiting family in Knoxville, Tennessee. The University flag will fly at half-mast in her honour from 9am today until 1pm on tomorrow. Left: Lisa Wolford Wylam Prof. Wylam came to York from Bowling Green State University in 2006, […]

Video: Faculty of Fine Arts’ Summer Institute for grad students focuses on Performance Art

The two co-founding artistic directors of the hugely influential performance collective La Pocha Nostra were artists-in-residence at York University’s fourth annual Summer Institute in Theatre Studies, which ran June 15 to 27. Guillermo Gómez-Peña, described as “among the most significant of late-20th-century performance artists” by New York City’s Village Voice, and Roberto Sifuentes, professor of performance at […]