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.”