Sunday, February 23, 2014

NOTES: Body Issues in Performance Art: Between Theory and Praxis

  • related to a particular context
  • only meanings give action a sense, without it the image or the action becomes nothing, "an empty joke"
  • performer and spectator are interdependent or each other
  • human being exists for three interactions:
    • 1. the biological sphere
    • 2. the social-ecological 
    • 3. the inter-psychic
  • action= urge
  • body-body, mind-body, psyche-body
  • these three subtypes are activated when the performer is in action
  •  scales go further then material into inter-connective messages and impulses= more pure way to communicate
  • an art action interferes with the limits of human abilities= meaning human ability may hold action back?
  • todays work preformes much more with the need for instruments and a new way of thinking about there work, possibly to go beyond the images they are construing, going beyond the boundaries of action and human body, pushing for thought
  • art performance connected to technology connected to globalization = communication
  • Truth= a delicate encounter connected much more to the atmosphere and the environment  then to the presence (gathering of occasions and situations)
  • Body?
    • "what i want to do and what someone wants of/ about me"
  • own body
  • can performance art work without the body?
  • aesthetic control and a manipulation of space that can drive both the performer and the participant
  • new technologies and medicine= translates to mutation
  • action art = a study of the capacity of the human body and its capabilities 
  • "art manifests the invisible in the visible"
  • ethics:
    • values
    • outcomes
    • capabilities
    • spirit/psyche
    • action/representation
    • reaction to ego, to work on inner self? (super ego or id?)
  • performer is an artist and a poet of action
  •  as a performer you must "do"
  • humans are not machines but must be translate through body image
  • technology incorporates  more and different versions of metaphor
  • Aristotle: two different forms
    • direct action
    • moral action
  • perfomance artists must have style
  • style belongs to the individual and to the entire society

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