Statement Elements
-Performance art is culture bound
-Always related to a specific contex
-Actions without meaning are senseless
-Performance stimulates memory activation, sentiments,
feelings and beliefs of viewer.
- Human being exists for interaction of three basic
fundamental factors of the body: biological sphere, the social-ecological
shere, and the inter-psychic sphere.
-definition of an action can refer to an urge, a drive, to
chase or to stir-up.
-Performance action
yields a performer to be an action maker but whether or not the performers body
must act within the action is not yet defined.
-Arab definition of body:
-Gesem: concrete biological/
mechanical structures of the body. (Blood and muscles, bones.)
-Gesed:
mental structure which controls the body.
-Beden: psyche-body elements of
soul and true, transparent emotions which can be expressed through the Beden or
Gesed.
-An action related to Gesem is easily definable, but what if
it is related or spurred by the Gesed or the Beden.
-The task for the artist who works through the body is to
achieve natural equilibrium between these forces of the artists body.
- Above all the senses, the heart allows an individual to look
inwardly and profoundly, so far to get a more pure and concentrated perception
of the many possible configurations in the scheme and in the configured system
of things.
-To understand and comprehend is a question of profound
feeling and flow of energies.
Performance art: A Social Role between Ethics and
Aesthetics.
Performance art would is becoming increasingly oriented
toward networking globalization and innovation of communication.
-can be applied to technology,
political, economical processes and contemporary society.
-Performers role is changing: by becoming less an actionist
of reputed and supposable nonsense, and more a communicator of things once
considered impossible.
-They help convey them in a clear manner
The Laws of Communication: Space, Truth and Body in Action.
-Truth in art is connected to atmosphere and the environment
than to the presence: it is a combination, gathering and convergence of
occasions and situations.
Conceptual Lines:
-In Performance, sound, voice, and words are used as
vehicles for pure expression.
-The body is an unknown landscape that invites one to
explore hidden manifestations while emotions and feelings are unstoppable
streams that traverse the body.
-Action Art: mainly a research to explore and lead the vital
capability of the body (at whatever condition it is left or subdue) to interact
with reality and become a true visual place in which and where meanings
(social/ individual/ spiritual) are produced.
Analysis
-The Performer must act in his or her own nature to realize their
own full potential. He/She is a poet of actions, and an artist at the same
time. He doesn’t play or interpret, but gives and delivers.
Defining a Possible Grammar
-A retraction of ego helps form the “new self”
-The performer is never artificial or pretentious.
-“Being contemporary means “to base and tune our own self
into something” and to deal at the same time with one and the other’s own
economical being and creative one.”
