Obituary A longtime editor of High Performance magazine in Los Angeles, Durland maintained his own practice while advocating for the art form. Steven Durland at the launch of High Performance: A 2-Year Conference (2025–2027) at the 18th Street Arts Center in Santa Monica on January 31, 2026 (photo Monica Orozco, courtesy Performance Art Museum) Artist, writer, editor, and cultural organizer Steven Durland died on March 11 at the age of 75 after a brief illness. His longtime collaborator and life partner, Linda Frye Burnham, confirmed his death in Saxapahaw, North Carolina, his home base of three decades.  Durland was born in 1951 in Long Beach, California, and raised in South Dakota. Over the course of his early life, he lived in Massachusetts and New York before returning to the West Coast in the early 1980s. In 1993, together with Burnham, he relocated to Frog Pond Farm in Saxapahaw, where they lived alongside dogs, cats, chickens, and geese.…