Zuzanna Janin: Fight (2001)

A short performance video, from Janin’s series of fight performances based on training with and fighting the heavyweight boxer Przemysław Saleta.

Boxing Painting

This is what happens when you google “Jackson Pollock” and “boxing.”

Mixed Results

IAAF Mixed Competition Rule 147

International Association of Athletic Federations rule 147, regarding mixed-gender competition:  Generally not OK. Especially not OK in a stadium. Basically, if I’m reading this correctly, this rule is meant to foreclose the possibility that anyone might accidentally think that men and women compete directly against each other. Because then the earth might open up and swallow the stadium whole.

CrossFit Performance

https://vimeo.com/38662094

David Getsy writes about Amber Hawk Swanson’s work in “Queer Exercises: Amber Hawk Swanson’s performance of Self Realization” (in GLQ‘s fall 2013 issue, which I edited). I can’t get enough of this.

Franko B – Milk & Blood

UK-based artist Franko B’s most recent work—a contribution to a recent wave of compelling/challenging sports-related performance art.