Writings on performance


“Cassils, PISSED (2017)” in Transgender Hirstory in 99 Objects, ed. David Evans Frantz, Chris E. Vargas, and Christina Linden (Munich: Hirmer Publishers, 2023), 254-55.

“Waking Dreams: Colette’s Performance Art,” Pioneer Works Broadcast (10 October 2023).

“The Spectacle of Privacy: Geoffrey Hendricks’s Ring Piece and the Ambivalence of Queer Visibility,” The Art Bulletin 104.3 (September 2022): 117-45.

“Outing Queer Fluxus: Geoffrey Hendricks in Conversation with David J. Getsy,” PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art 127 (January 2021): 95-106.

“Multiple Exposures: Sean Fader’s #wishingpelt and Humor in Social Media Performance,” ASAP/Journal 5.3 (September 2020): 515-20.

“Slow Bonds and the Intimacy of Objects: A Conversation between Gordon Hall and David J. Getsy” in Gordon Hall, 'The Number of Inches Between Them,' exh. cat, MIT List Visual Arts Center (Gordon Hall, 2019), 67-89. [Also republished in Gordon Hall, 'OVER-BELIEFS: Collected Writing, 2011–2018' (Portland, Oregon: Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, 2019), 44-49]

"Stephen Varble's Xerographic Dreams," in Stephen Varble: An Antidote to Nature's Ruin on this Heavenly Globe, Prints and Video from the Early 1980s, exh. cat., curated by David  J. Getsy (Lexington, Kentucky: Institute 193, 2018), 3-28.

"A Sight to Withhold: David J. Getsy on Cassils," Artforum (February 2018): 57-60. 

"Abstract Bodies and Otherwise: A Conversation with Amelia Jones and David Getsy on Gender and Sexuality in the Writing of Art History," CAAreviews (posted 16 February 2018)

"Rubbish and Dreams: The Genderqueer Performance Art of Stephen Varble" in The Archive [of the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art] no.62 (Winter 2017), 3-7.

“Abstraction and the Unforeclosed” [conclusion to Abstract Bodies, re: Cassils’s Becoming an Image, transgender capacity, and contemporary abstraction]

"The Image of Becoming: Cassils's Allegories of Transformation," Cassils, exh. cat. (Eindhoven: MU Eindhoven, 2015), 10-22.

"Acts of Stillness: Statues, Performativity, and Passive Resistance," Criticism 56.1 (2014):1-20.

"Queer Formalisms: Jennifer Doyle and David Getsy in Conversation," Art Journal 72.4 (Winter 2013): 58-71.

"Queer Exercises: Amber Hawk Swanson's Performances of Self-Realization," GLQ 19.4 (Fall 2013): 465-85.

"The Primacy of Sensibility: Scott Burton Writing on Art and Performance," in Scott Burton: Collected Writings on Art and Performance, 1965-1975, ed. David Getsy (Chicago: Soberscove Press, 2012), 1-32.

"Mourning, Yearning, Cruising: Ernesto Pujol's Memorial Gestures," PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art 90 (September 2008): 11-24.