IDEAS IMAGES AND IMOVIES

By Linda Roth

Definitions of PERFORMANCE ART

Art form that arose in Europe and the U.S. in the 1960s. The term describes an art that is live but operates outside the traditional conventions of theatre or music. Early examples represented a challenge to orthodox art forms and cultural norms by creating an ephemeral art experience that could not be captured or purchased. By the 1970s performance art was used as a general term to describe a multitude of activities, including happenings, body art, actions, events, and non-matrix theatre. Prominent performance artists have included JOSEPH BEUYS, JOHN CAGE, Dennis Oppenheim, Yoko Ono, NAM JUNE PAIK, MEREDITH MONK, and LAURIE ANDERSON. - Concise Encyclopedia

Joseph Beuys  "teaching is my greatest work of

art" - that “the rest is the waste product, a demonstration. If you want to express yourself you must present something tangible. But after awhile this has only the function of a historic document. Objects aren’t very important any more. I want to get to the origin of matter, to the thought behind it.”- Joseph Bueys

EXTREME PERFORMANCE ARTShould Art “take a stand”?

Political issues

Social issues

Cultural issues

Can we go

to far? Masochism

Perversion

Offensive

In his performance domestic tension he remained in a gallery space for a month while viewers shot paintballs at him

In this performance he had 5000 red ink dots tattooed on his body for American casualties in IRAQ, and 100,000 dots for “unidentified and forgotten” Iraqi victims.

Domestic Tension …and Counting

ORLAN - Her name is a single name in all capital letters. She was the first artist to use surgery as an artistic medium, using all technological, scientific and medical discoveries to question them.Her work questions body image, status, concepts of beauty and cultural pressures.She believes her nomadic and shifting identity support her beliefs in tolerance, human rights and hybridization.

ORLAN

ORLAN Interview

Iammaiwhoami

I AMAM I WHo AM I

Internet based MYSTERY Videos

NONSENSE ? Would this work

have been more meaningful if it had stayed a mystery and never been packaged and sold?

Would it make a difference if it was a plan to sell it from the beginning or a fluke?

How important is it that a work of art be understood?

Can you make conceptual art in a capitalist culture?

BARBARA ROSENTHALSHADOW BOXESTHIS SCREEN WILL BE BLACK AND SILENT FOR SOME TIMEBibliography

How does this video make you feel? How does Barbara use Time and tension to elicit an emotional response?

Death Bear by Nate Hill

Check Check- Her response to a Canadian politician, Stephen Harper's, attack on the arts and funding to artists.

Jess Dobkin

“My body is my primary tool in my practice, and my work explores its physical and psychic abilities, limitations, and attributes. Using personal narrative as my starting point, I pull from my own experiences of love, work, parenthood, politics and sex for material.”- Jess Dobkin

SATIRE

WHAT THE HECK?

TONIGHT

1. Pick a poem or short paragraph that means something to you

2. Perform your words in a unique way

Props Voice

inflections

Motion / choreograp

hy

Lighting/

location

YOUR FINISHED PERFORMANCE FILM WILL HAVE:Use a portion of poetry or significant verbal textInclude you in filmed portionWill have artwork you made or other personal items that mean something to youInclude at least 4 imovie editing elementsYOU ENJOYING BEING AN ARTIST!!!!!!

EXPECTATIONS

1. Brainstorm ideas for a visual performance piece2. Gather images of and/or your artwork, photos of

anything you want to incorporate, props and sounds into a jump drive

THIS WEEKEND

MONDAY1. Monday bring everything you need2. Film the sections you need3. Create your performance piece on

imovie4. Share and Critique

RESOURCES http://ubu.com/ Anything…..syllabus! (tip from Professor

Tornatsky)