Performance art

• Performance art


  Artwork that is created through actions performed by the artist or other participants, which may be live or recorded, spontaneous or scripted
• Performance art


  • It is generally an event by nature ephemeral, though it is often recorded on video and by means of still photography
• Ephemeral


  Something that lasts for a very short time
• While the terms 'performance' and 'performance art' only became widely used in the 1970s, the history of performance in the visual arts is often traced back to futurist productions and dada cabarets of the 1910s
• Performance art emerged in the mid-20th century as a radical departure from traditional forms of visual art
• Its roots can be traced back to movements such as Dadaism, and Futurism, which emphasized experimentation and the rejection of conventional norms
• In the early 20th century, taking inspiration from cabarets and detailing their manifestos in person, the art movements of Dadaism and Surrealism featured early versions of this style
• If not directly related, they surely inspired what would come afterward, especially since each of these art movements had a touch of the avant garde which means new and unusual or experimental ideas
• Performance art


  It's more about the moment and the experience rather than a scripted narrative or choreographed routine
• Performance art


  • Always involves the body of the artist or other people that the artist has commissioned to help with producing the piece
  • It can take place live, in public, or be a recorded experience that took place in a private setting or closed gallery
  • Often involves other mediums and objects, but the main focus is the action that takes place by the performer
• Action art


  The action of painting, therefore, became a kind of performance that added to the final painted artwork
• Action art


  • Yoko Ono used this type of performance art to do conceptual experiments where she invited the audience to choose an action from a list she compiled and act it out
• Body art


  The body became the medium, subject, and surface where the artwork took place
• Specifically used by feminist artists like Carolee Schneemann, Valie Export, and Hannah Wilke who used their bodies to challenge the traditional way the female experience and body were portrayed in the media and by male-dominated art forms
• Marina Abramović


  A pioneer of endurance-based performance art, known for pushing her physical and mental limits in works that explore themes of pain, vulnerability, and the human condition
• Marina Abramović


  • Her most famous performance, "The Artist is Present" (2010), involved sitting silently for long periods of time while inviting audience members to sit opposite her
• Joseph Beuys


  His "How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare" is a performance about the limitations of explanation. The hare, representing death and lack of understanding, can't receive the explanation. It challenges traditional art analysis and pushes the boundaries of art itself
• Yoko Ono


  Japanese multimedia artist, singer, songwriter, and peace activist. Known for performance art and filmmaking. Moved from Tokyo to America where she met John Lennon, Beatles founder and guitarist
• Imagination


  Something a human can only do in their mind
• Ts-


  • It burrows, building itself a home in the earth
  • It incarnates itself in the earth: that alone is important
• Honey


  Has to do with thought
• Humans


  Do not have the ability to produce honey, but they do have the ability to think, to produce ideas
• Thought


  Can become alive, like honey, but intellectualizing can be deadly to thought