Relationship Between The Live Event And The Document Within Performance Practice

The audience then became lost and frightened as there were no signs leading them to their next destination, once again forcing them to partake in the performance. This physicalisation not only successfully involved the contemporary audience, but demonstrated the necessity of physical composition to give audiences that real experience. This use of physical composition provided immediate reaction and emotional expression through action and contrast. These elements ultimately enhanced the mood and symbolism of the performance, allowing audiences to not only partake in the production on an intimate level but also on an emotional level. Another way in which mood and symbol can be created is through the use of complicité.

In this essay we will be looking at the ways contemporary artists represent the body. And how we no longer look to art for idealist portrayals of the human form. Through contemporary art the body has become a territory and vessel, which can transmit ideas within our society. We will be exploring theories surrounding this topic, particularly notes from Mulvey's 'The Gaze' and Leo Bersani's 'The Freudian Gaze'; where they have successfully pinpointed why society's depiction of the human body has become romanticised and idealised. We have decided to analyse the work of Jenny Saville and the way in which she paints series of her grotesque and yet entirely realistic self portrait.

The chosen elements of music, positive space in bodily contact, and stylistic dance were the aspects of this performance which contributed the most towards his narrative. After shared experiences with students who saw this performance, it seems pertinent to explore the interaction between dance narratives and innate physical somatic reactions towards them that occurred in people’s body. This sensation, will be classified as an “Autonomous sensory meridian response” (or ASMR)2 refers to the onset of tingles that travel up the spine from the back of the head due to various primary sensory triggers. Not everybody has this phenomena occur in their body, and individuals who do have

Art. When we say this sole world what comes to mind? Some of us may think classic Pablo Picasso, Claude Monet, Leonardo Da Vinci or Johannes Vermeer. The Latina/Chicana part of me then comes to life and thinks about Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, Salvador Dali and Jose Clemente Orozco. There importance and work icon to this day providing there people not only a vehicle to express a message but as well progression through time. Serving to provide both iconic representation and dilemmas through in society. The particular art form that I want to focus on this that of Performance Art, which is a, “Performance is typically a genre in which are is presented “live”, usually by the artist but sometimes with collaborators or performers. ” (“The Art Story”,

The artwork I’m doing combining feminist and gender study analysis is, Ana Mendieta “Untitled” (Silueta series) circa 1973. I will address how the themes of the body, race, identity, and gender impact the psychological analysis. Mendieta used performance art, using her own body, in order to send her message which is a prominent part of a feminist artwork. In her work, Mendieta is lying with flowers distributed around her hiding body, which could represent her shift between moving from her homeland to the United States. Mendieta depicts in her pictures the spiritual and life elements that blossom all around us and the relation between how a woman’s body is close to nature. Within these pictures, it shows the femininity of a real woman and how

Performance art at that time was an emerging art form that rapidly gained popularity, allowing artists such as, the aforementioned, to express themselves in ways that aimed to bring about social and political change. Because performance art emphasized the artist’s action and the viewer’s experience of that action in real space and real time, it rarely yielded a final

Marina Abramovic is known for completely excluding using paint and canvas for her art. She is a performance artist, Marina uses her body as the medium between her and the audience. In her piece “The Artist is Present”, she sits with hundreds of people for several months without showing any emotion. Marina is simply present at the moment she is sitting with different people, while the person sitting shows tremendous feelings towards Marina. Marina has a gift of making people think she is in love with them. Her fans that were able to sit with her explain their time with Marina as life changing. She is the greatest living performance artist and that is why she is why she will be remembered as the grandmother of performance

The artist Allan Kaprow reconstructed the meaning of art when he began to make art that became the antithesis of the typical paint on canvas or sculptural form and began creating environments and performances which enacted the artist’s, as well as audience participation. Kaprow’s work from the 1970s, what he referred to as Activities, further analyzed and assessed social relations and their relationship to everyday social interactions. His previous artworks in the 1960s were also dedicated to social interactions, however, the performances relied on a large group of artists and participants. In the 1970s Kaprow began isolating his scripts from the audience, aiming for more interpersonal events. By eliminating the audience, Kaprow’s work

Performance Art transforms art from something a person views, in to something one can be a part of. One part of Performance Art is Body Art, where the artist uses the body to convey the message of their work. Marina Abramovic is a Performance artist who makes Body Art where she pushes herself to the limits, testing her endurance. Abramovic’s prolific creations, including Rhythm 0 and The Artist is Present force people out of their comfort zones and to think critically about the world around them. By analyzing Rhythm 0 and The Artist is Present it becomes clear that Abramovic can make a big statement with her work.

In the unceasing act of time, change is considered a mutually exclusive act on the world, its unprejudiced nature therefore unifying elements of our world through the basic understanding of transformation. Such transformation has may be clearly seen in the tradition of art, as medium, material and subject have refined, added, and evolved preexisting notions of art. Since performance art’s introduction as a legitimate method of artistic expression in the early 20th century, it has become a implicit in the world’s unbiased action of change, and therefore has evolved in the passing of time. As performance art was created in part to challenge orthodox norms within art and culture, as the world’s evolution lead to more nuanced understanding of

The body in contemporary art has been a means of transportation for many ideas and concepts relating to the human condition. Many of the concepts deal with

There are many things that can be said about Marina Abramovic’s works, particularly her MOMA performance “The Artist Is Present”, but I think that everyone would agree they are if anything compelling. The film that we viewed, centered around that ambitious performance, allowed us to get a sense of Marina, from her early years as a rather unknown Yugoslavian artist, her relationship with Ulay that had the biggest impact on her as artist and a person, to the late years of her career in which she found fame. The performance at MOMA was one of the most interesting works I’ve ever witnessed. In addition to having her admirers as mere viewers of her work, she found a way to engage with them in a very intense and profound way. I felt that the performance

Born in 1936 in New York, Joan Jonas is a pioneer of video art and performance. Jonas has worked and is working in installation, video, drawing and sculpture where she has collaborated with dancers and musicians. This has made her realize the work on improvisational which is found in the museum and theater stage. Jonas has managed to link texts from stories of the past with present politics. She emphasizes potent symbols when performing at the stage by mask wearing and drawing together with self-awareness on critical basis. Many of her experiments and projects have provided basis to most video performed in art.

A fascination with the human body, body were an experience that could somehow be held in common. The ways in which we might experience the body as connected or represent it as disconnected in a live performance. Shifting attention from traditional art object to the artist’s physical action further proposed that art existed in real space and real time. Marina Abramovic, a pioneer of performance art began using her own body as the subject, object, and medium in the early 1970s as she said, ‘In performance my body is object and subject.’ For the exhibition

Alongside Goffman's idea of the ‘masks’, he also mentions staging. He suggests that our self-presentation is constructed and controlled, and it shows the way we ‘set out’ our self-presentation, this includes; the costume we wear, the physical locations and the props we might use. When I’m at