Conceptual Art Traditionally, the work is
interdisciplinary, employing some other
Performance Art / Happenings kind of visual art, video, sound, or props.
/ Actions
Although performance art takes the form
In performance art, the artist’s medium of live action, it has reached a large
is the body, and the live actions he or she public audience through documentation
performs are the work of art. of the performance.
The term, used loosely at first, arose in Introduction to Performance art
the early 1960s as American practitioners Performance art is sometimes carefully
sought a way to refer to and describe the planned and scripted but can also be
many live events taking place at that spontaneous and random.
time.
Although it often takes place in front of
an audience and may involve audience
participation – or the orchestration of
other participants by the artist – it can
also be an action performed privately by
the artist.
Performance art has origins in Futurism
and Dada, but became a major
phenomenon in the 1960s and 1970s and
can be seen as a branch of conceptual art.
Performance art usually consists of four Performance art in America
elements: An important influence on the
• time emergence of performance were
• space the photographs taken by the
photographer Hans Namuth in 1950
• the performer’s body
of the abstract expressionist
• a relationship between audience painter Jackson Pollock making his
and performer. so-called action paintings.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cgBvpj
wOGo
Performance art had its immediate
origins in the theatrical happenings
organised by Allan Kaprow and
others in New York in the late
1950s.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvDU
NefAmAQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_kkI
w3gdQI
, By the mid 1960s this theatrical In Britain the
element was being stripped out by artist duo
early performance artists such as Gilbert &
Vito Acconci and Bruce Nauman. George made
highly original
performance
Performance art in Europe works from
1969.
In Germany and
Austria
performance art A major problem for early performance
is known as artists was the ephemeral nature of the
actionism, medium.
though this term
is usually Right from the start performance pieces
specifically were recorded in photography, film and
applied to the video, and these eventually became the
Vienna-based primary means by which performance
group Wiener reached a wide public.
Aktionismus, founded in 1961, whose
deliberately shocking performances
The purpose of Performance art
were intended to highlight the endemic
violence of humanity. The foremost purpose of performance
art has almost always been to challenge
The German artist Joseph Beuys was a the conventions of traditional forms of
hugely influential pioneer of visual art such as painting and sculpture.
performance art, making a wide impact
with his ‘actions’ from 1963 on. These When these modes no longer seem to
were powerful expressions of the pain answer artists' needs - when they seem
of human existence, and explored too conservative, or too enmeshed in the
complex social and political issues traditional art world and too distant
through a focus on man’s relationship from ordinary people - artists have often
to nature. turned to performance in order to find
new audiences and test new ideas.
Performance art borrows styles and
ideas from other forms of art, or
sometimes from other forms of activity
not associated with art, like ritual, or
work-like tasks. More recently,
performance artists have borrowed from
dance, and even sport.
Some varieties of performance from the
post-war period are commonly described
as "actions." German artists like Joseph
Beuys preferred this term because it
interdisciplinary, employing some other
Performance Art / Happenings kind of visual art, video, sound, or props.
/ Actions
Although performance art takes the form
In performance art, the artist’s medium of live action, it has reached a large
is the body, and the live actions he or she public audience through documentation
performs are the work of art. of the performance.
The term, used loosely at first, arose in Introduction to Performance art
the early 1960s as American practitioners Performance art is sometimes carefully
sought a way to refer to and describe the planned and scripted but can also be
many live events taking place at that spontaneous and random.
time.
Although it often takes place in front of
an audience and may involve audience
participation – or the orchestration of
other participants by the artist – it can
also be an action performed privately by
the artist.
Performance art has origins in Futurism
and Dada, but became a major
phenomenon in the 1960s and 1970s and
can be seen as a branch of conceptual art.
Performance art usually consists of four Performance art in America
elements: An important influence on the
• time emergence of performance were
• space the photographs taken by the
photographer Hans Namuth in 1950
• the performer’s body
of the abstract expressionist
• a relationship between audience painter Jackson Pollock making his
and performer. so-called action paintings.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cgBvpj
wOGo
Performance art had its immediate
origins in the theatrical happenings
organised by Allan Kaprow and
others in New York in the late
1950s.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvDU
NefAmAQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_kkI
w3gdQI
, By the mid 1960s this theatrical In Britain the
element was being stripped out by artist duo
early performance artists such as Gilbert &
Vito Acconci and Bruce Nauman. George made
highly original
performance
Performance art in Europe works from
1969.
In Germany and
Austria
performance art A major problem for early performance
is known as artists was the ephemeral nature of the
actionism, medium.
though this term
is usually Right from the start performance pieces
specifically were recorded in photography, film and
applied to the video, and these eventually became the
Vienna-based primary means by which performance
group Wiener reached a wide public.
Aktionismus, founded in 1961, whose
deliberately shocking performances
The purpose of Performance art
were intended to highlight the endemic
violence of humanity. The foremost purpose of performance
art has almost always been to challenge
The German artist Joseph Beuys was a the conventions of traditional forms of
hugely influential pioneer of visual art such as painting and sculpture.
performance art, making a wide impact
with his ‘actions’ from 1963 on. These When these modes no longer seem to
were powerful expressions of the pain answer artists' needs - when they seem
of human existence, and explored too conservative, or too enmeshed in the
complex social and political issues traditional art world and too distant
through a focus on man’s relationship from ordinary people - artists have often
to nature. turned to performance in order to find
new audiences and test new ideas.
Performance art borrows styles and
ideas from other forms of art, or
sometimes from other forms of activity
not associated with art, like ritual, or
work-like tasks. More recently,
performance artists have borrowed from
dance, and even sport.
Some varieties of performance from the
post-war period are commonly described
as "actions." German artists like Joseph
Beuys preferred this term because it
