Adobe PDF (1.99 MB)
Title Details:
Live art, body art, performance art
Authors: Karaba, Elpida
Papastamou, Valia
Reviewer: Gerogianni, Irini
Description:
Abstract:
Through various moves away from traditional media and the rise of new categories in art, such as Action Painting, the body becomes a central field of action and reference for artists. These draw primarily from and are related to the Fluxus tradition and range from the Happenings of Allan Kaprow, to extreme physical performances that test the limits of physical presence. Happenings and Actionisms. The demand for a complete abandonment of painting, the (aggressive) breakdown of the barriers separating the performers from the audience, the willful indifference between cause and effect, the absence of history, which contradicts the main idea of the modernists, the work of art as an autonomous totality, are some of the components of a sensorial, intense, instinctive and physical practice. The importance of destruction, the return of ritual and theatricality, and the body as an analytical object and libidinal space, in the European version, of such actions, of the Actionists. Performance. The notion of performance as central to contemporary art, as conceptualized by theorists J. L Austin, Roland Barthes, Jacques Derrida, Judith Butler and gave a particular context to the genre of contemporary performance. A new category emerges from the proto-feminist practices of mainly American artists to the conceptual performances of British Mary Kelly and the political performances of artists in Eastern Europe. In these artistic practices, the political ferment of the time is reflected, for example, in racial struggles, anti-war activism, the war of identities, the feminist movement and postcolonial critique. We will trace the trajectory of these practices, studying the dominant theories as well as the particular local contexts that shaped these practices.
Linguistic Editors: Klada, Nektaria
Graphic Editors: Triantafyllakos, George
Type: Chapter
Creation Date: 08-07-2023
Item Details:
License: Attribution - NonCommercial - ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
Handle http://hdl.handle.net/11419/10045
Bibliographic Reference: Karaba, E., & Papastamou, V. (2023). Live art, body art, performance art [Chapter]. In Karaba, E., & Papastamou, V. 2023. Transitions. From Modern to Contemporary Art. Critical Approaches. [Undergraduate textbook]. Kallipos, Open Academic Editions. https://hdl.handle.net/11419/10045
Language: Greek
Is Part of: Transitions. From Modern to Contemporary Art. Critical Approaches.
Publication Origin: Kallipos, Open Academic Editions