High Performance - The Record (Artists Doing Songs)

[Various Artists]

High Performance - The Record (Artists Doing Songs)

Los Angeles, USA: High Performance Records, 1983

31.4 × 31.4 cm.

Edition size unknown

High Performance was a quarterly arts magazine founded in 1978 with an editorial mission to provide support and a critical context for "new, innovative and unrecognized work in the arts." It began primarily as a performance art magazine and eventually expanded into coverage of video, sound and public art. 

Linda Frye Burnham founded the periodical and was the magazine's editor from 1978 to 1985, and then co-editor wit Steven Durland until 1997, when it ceased publishing. Here she serves as a contributing artist (singing "Downtown Blues"), co-producer, co-designer and author of the liner notes. 

The double LP was released as issue #23 (Volume 6, No. 3) of the magazine, in the fall of 1983. Other contributors include Terry Allen, Jo Harvey Allen, Jacki Apple, Jill Kroesen, Bill Harding, Paul McCarthy, Martha Wilson and many others. 

As part of the Steven Leiber collection, the work is held in the library of the Museum of Modern Art, New York City, and is included in Ursula Block's seminal overview of artists' records, Broken Music.