Performance Art

H&C lecture - 04/05/10

• 60's & 70's
• Eva Hesse
• Robert Morris
• Material - product - deterioration
• Decay of work

Eva HESSE Contingent

Robert Morris

• Art and Object
• Michael Freed
• Relationship between conceptual art and the 'body art' that emerged from the 1960's

ROBERT MORRIS Untitled 1967-8

• Chris Burden -'shoot'
• 'Rose-lee Goldberg, Performance Art'
• John Cage
• Marcel Duchamp - 'The Body of Language' 1974

'...unmediated engagement of viewer and performer in art, has also crossed over into architecture, semiotics, anthropology and gender studies'

- Rose-lee Goldberg, Performance Art 2000

TILLY LOSCH, Footprints carpet

What constitutes performance?

• skill
• audience
• consciousness

1, Joe Goode, Ed Ruscha riding horses, (catalogue cover for Newport Harbour, Balbao Pavilion Gallery Exhibition, !968)

2, Ed Ruscha, says goodbye to college joys, full page advert in Artform, 1967

3, Ed and Danna, 1971

All photographed by Jerry McMillian

Audience

• what makes a performance really interesting?
• could be athlete performer - suspense
• sympathy, connection and bond of trust between audience and artist. artist id drawing and pulling energy from the audience

Antonio Damastio

From the 'performance art' to the 'per formative'

Barbara Kirshenblatt - Gimblett, 1999

Richard Schechner - performance studier, 2002

1. in everyday life
2. in the arts
3. in sports and other popular entertainment
4. business
5. technology
6. sex
7. ritual - scared and secular
8. play

Fluids- people would be surprised or pleased. introducing 'play' in everyday life

The Futurists

• noise rather than music
• Hugo Ball- surrealist performance
• fluxist movement
• Joseph Boice, Yoko Ono

Drip Music - authorship and originality

anti consumerist and anti establishment

Joseph Beuys

Native Americans - repression

JOSEPH BEUYS, I Like America and America Likes Me 1974

Arists had to address the movement.

MARCEL DUCHAMP, Mile of String

International Surrealist Exhibition (New York, 1942)

An encounter with the real occurs within like the performance works.

Shoot, Chris Burden

Often works were culturally specific, addressing the contemry social and political situation.

Susan Sontag, 'Against Interpretation, 1964'

What is important, how is to recover our senses...

Ginapane, 1971 - to anger which was unfolding in Vietnam

SDS President Paul Potter - antiwarraly

George Skahel - 'Vietnam Letters'

John Filo - Kent state (1970), Velocity Peice

David Hammons

Faith Wilding, Waiting, performed at Womenhouse, Cal Arts 1972

anger about women in society

Movina Abramovic, Rythm

Peggy Phelan, The Ontology of performance, Representation without Reproductin. 1993

Performance is something which is live.We need images and film to keep record of it but the life of the performance is when it is live and happening.