Scared Little Doggie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuYXjPeuEh0

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.”

            

Feb 17 HW

Video Art-Notes

1960’s events of note:

March 1963, Wuppertal, Nam June Paik showed “exposition of Music- Electronic Television”

·      Used for music

Wolf Vostell (1963) @ NY Smolin Gallery

“Wolf Vostell & Television Decollage and Decolage Posters & Comestible Decolage”

6 TV sets all showing different programs

1969, Germany

Gerry Schum produced a 38 minute tape called “Land Art”

1967 Sony comes out with the first analog video recording device

Was a two piece recording device, one for sound, the other for video

Image Quality of the 70’s

·      Black and white overlayed with a grey veil

·      Color videos have a somewhat unnatural coloration

·      Greenish night photo’s or video

·      Blurry quality

1969 “Television as a Creative Medium” is shown at NY Howard Wise Gallery

1969 “Following Piece” by Vito Acconci created

·      Followed random people & took shots of them.

·      Continued for 23 days

1970’s

1970 “Shoot” created by Chris Burden

·      Performance took aim at imagined fears, pain, helplessness and fear of death

Image of Women

VALERIE EXPORT

·      Lynn Hershman

·      Nancy Holt

·      Ulrike Rosenbach

·      (and others)

First generation of artists to use video to describe and question womens place within a patriarchal society.

Urlike Rosenbach- “Reflections of the Birth of Venus”

·      Projected an image of Botticelli painting of Venus upon herself commenting on outdated ideals of beauty.

1970 “Live/ Taped Video Corridor” Bruce Nauman.

·      Creates confusion for viewer and makes them question their reality and orientation

Pipilotti Rist & Diana Thater

·      Two artists who play with metally annexing the viewer with their instalations.

·      “Delphine” (1999) Thater creates an underwater scene for the viewer to enjoy

·      “Homo Sapiens Sapiens” Rist creates rivers of images that the viewer can sit and enjoy. The viewer gets to choose when they are through watching. The video continues

Time Codes

·      Video is a time based medium

·      Many early artists recorded themselves performing in real time creating a documentary style effect

1980

·      Video equipment is become much cheaper, easier to use, and technically better.

·      There has developed a new technique of using multiple monitors in a series as a wall, stack, or staggered. 

New Stopmotion Video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bv-q2VHO3so