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Lesson 2: Performance art- Performance Art: An Introduction
- The Case for Performance Art
- Shiraga Kazuo, Challenging Mud (Doro ni idomu)
- Marina Abramović: The Body as medium
- Marina Abramović: What is performance art?
- Marina Abramović
- Marina Abramović, The Artist is Present
- Mierle Laderman Ukeles, Cleaning the museum—maintenance art
- Bill Viola, The Crossing
- Vito Acconci
- Gordon Matta-Clark, Splitting
- Unlock Art: Frank Skinner on Performance Art
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Marina Abramović: What is performance art?
Marina Abramović talks about the difference between theatre and performance art, "performance is real.". Created by The Museum of Modern Art.
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- Drawings are two-dimensional, and sculptures are three-dimensional. Could it be said that a performance piece is a four-dimensional artwork?(13 votes)
- It is 4d because time is also a dimension.(11 votes)
- ~- "without the audience it has no meaning" - does this mean the performer is more like a brush of sorts than an actual artist, and that the audience is the artist? 1:45(2 votes)
- From my view, Marina Abramovic concept of performing It's kind of communication between the artist/performer and the audience.(2 votes)
- Is she saying cutting is performance art?(1 vote)
- I would argue that Abramovic is saying that cutting can be performance art, when done as part of a performance piece, with an audience.(3 votes)
- what are some good colleges that offer courses in THIS kind of performance art?(1 vote)
- , from what exhibition is the cutting? 00:39(1 vote)
- Its okay to draw blood from yourself to make paint?(1 vote)
- Sterilize the instrument first.
If you are drawing more than a drop or two from your fingertip (like a blood sugar or iron test), you probably want to have a teammate who has taken at least a Red Cross first aid class with you.(0 votes)
Video transcript
- I could say the
performance is the moment when the performer with his own idea step in his own mental
physical construction in the front of the
audience in particular time. This is not a theater.
A theater will repeat. Theater replace somebody else. Theater isn't like box. Performance is real. In a theater you can cut with a knife and there is blood. The knife is not real
and blood is not real. In performance the blood
and the knife and the body of the performer is real. It's very hard to make a strong, illuminating, you know, work of art. I'm more interested idea
I really fear about. I'm really interested in
idea who change something or, you know, make me learn something. If you do things you like
or you have the pleasure, you know, doing it, you'll never change. You're always in the same
pattern and everything is happening the same way
again and again in your life. Performance is the kind
of unique form of art and is very temporary and comes and goes. And in every society it's
different relation to performance. In the 70's it was body art
and then disappear completely. In the 80's because the
market was all focused on goods and something to sell, there was nothing to sell
with the performance. It was just memory. Every time the economical
crisis in the world the performers become kind of evident. I don't expect anything for myself is this expectation to be there 100%. I expect to be absolutely,
whatever I do, 100%. And it is up to audience
how they take it or not. And I will be-- I like them to be present, because the work is done for the audience. Without the audience
the world doesn't exist. It doesn't make any meaning.