The Case for Performance Art | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios
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Dubious of performance art? Break into a cold sweat when you realize it’s about to begin? There’s a reason. Here we present you with a brief history of performance art and attempt to sway you to its potential charms. Let us know if you buy it.
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"Art should not be separate from life, but an action within life, with all of the accidents and chaos and occasional beauty that that entails". YES YES YES YES.
Every artwork made by hand encompasses this, not just performance art.
Or you could make something better than the art equivalent of an akward conversation about "uh the weather, yeah?"
Kate Voss Italian, futurustists, theatre of Cruelty, Imminalism, feminist art, pop, and Cage are all participates of
the on-going of the Genocide of Beauty.
Thomas Smith Italian, futurustists, theatre of Cruelty, Imminalism, feminist art, pop, and Cage are all participates of
the on-going of the Genocide of Beauty.
Miles Beler Italian, futurustists, theatre of Cruelty, Imminalism, feminist art, pop, and Cage are all participates of
the on-going of the Genocide of Beauty.
There's so much info on these videos that i spend hours pausing them so i can investigate all pieces and artists, i wanna go to sleep but i can't. I thank you for the existance of this channel
Sleepndraw Italian, futurustists, theatre of Cruelty, Imminalism, feminist art, pop, and Cage are all participates of
the on-going of the Genocide of Beauty. All u had to do was read a book and watch documentaries
@@kikeheebchinkjigaboo6631 art without meaning and just for beauty and aesthetics sake is cosmetics
@@noidea7523 Art without meaning isn't necessarily beautiful. Very often, modern day art has nothing appealing to it. It could literally just be a solid color or a picture of a can of soup. No meaning, no beauty. Very often having a meaning injected into it with explanation; with no way of extracting that from the "art" itself
Imagínate yo que no se inglés 😢 haha
I love this channel! Instead of just saying "I don't get it" or "That's ugly" or "That's weird" I will now think twice about artists and how their art is presented and why.
you must not know dick about starkid Italian, futurustists, theatre of Cruelty, Imminalism, feminist art, pop, and Cage are all participates of
the on-going of the Genocide of Beauty.
@@kikeheebchinkjigaboo6631 you must not know jack shit about Art LoL
@@RomeoDeJuliette Nah he's just not a pretentious tryhard pretending to be cultured. Stupid NPC.
Thats why is important to educate people on contemporany art, because otherwise they cannot appreciate it and just think "huh... Thats dumb/ugly/disturbing" and just go back to their lifes as if nothing happened
@@user-en7ll3og6cwhat did happen...
Wow. Thank you, Sarah Green and everyone else behind this. I'm someone who is clueless when it comes to art, and I gotta tell you, this is so thought-provoking and mind-opening. Thank you.
From an Egyptian living in Saudi Arabia.
I am so glad you enjoyed it. Thank you very much for watching!
As an art student, I thank you for these videos!
Really helping in my finals.
When I was in London in May I visited Tate Britain. There were dancers in matching outfits and it was my first experience with performance art. Since then it has interested me and this video was really insightful!
I don't know much about art. In fact, I don't get art most of the time. But I've always loved learning. I just found this channel and it's so cool. I'd love more videos on performance art
This was great! Being a follower of Marina's work, these additional performance art concepts were excellent. Thank you!
I saw the very first performance of the Dachshund U.N. in Melbourne back in 2010. I've never been happier to see a piece of performance art. There were so many dachshunds wandering around Fitzroy for hours afterwards.
How cool! I debated whether to include that piece for a moment since it's dogs "performing" and not people. But then I quickly convinced myself that dogs count, too, and it most certainly involves "live performance" and is "performance art."
Excellent interpretation/summation of this niche of the academic art world! Thanks for reminding us it's okay to be humble and insecure around it.
This is why i love dada artists
What is dada? the Dada movement consisted of artists who rejected the logic, reason, and aestheticism of modern capitalist society, instead expressing nonsense, irrationality, and anti-bourgeois protest in their works. The art of the movement spanned visual, literary, and sound media, including collage, sound poetry, cut-up writing, and sculpture. Dadaist artists expressed their discontent toward violence, war, and nationalism, and maintained political affinities with the radical far-left.
Fabulous video. Last minutes were strangely moving. Glad this channel exists.
It's amazing that so much of UA-cam could arguably be termed performance art... People eating food, or doing their make-up, or doing the cinnamon challenge... None of this would be that far out of place in a fluxus event.
Agree
I would love to see PBS Idea Channel talk about UA-cam and performance art.
Powerful episode. I am a performer and this led me to Wow, what I had not considered. Now I understand. Brilliant.
I totally buy it. I've been fortunate to happen upon performance art (or perhaps the performance art happens upon me...) and I love the experience. Even that uncomfortableness. Even when, and especially when, I'm left with more ?? marks than anything. Gets me thinking and lets me explore and discover in a way that a representational painting might not. Plus I admire the courage and gusto of the performers. :) Great stuff, and a great episode! I really appreciate how you noted that the awkwardness can be seen as a perfect entry point to engaging with the art rather than a cue to run for the doors. (Unless running for the doors is part of the art piece... ;)
Wonderful! Performance art as we are all into has come to stay. We use it to talk about pressing social issues
I've been really getting into avant garde and various other forms of modern art lately, and the thing I love about it is that, whether or not you like the art itself, it's always an experience unlike any other. Whatever I'm seeing or hearing is the only thing like it in the world. I'm also starting to appreciate this idea that part of the art and the experience of it is the individual's interpretation. Art can and should evoke feelings, but it's not the same as, say, entertainment, which almost exclusively tries to evoke some kind of deliberate catharsis. Even when non-entertainment art is meant to tell you, even convince you of, one thing and one thing only, what it MEANS is and should be different to everyone. It tells them more about themselves that it does the art or the person who made it. What you take from it is informed almost entirely what you bring to it with your own thoughts, feelings and experiences ("the love you take is equal to the love you make" etc.).
As such, I don't think "uncomfortable" was the right word to end this video on. Art should definitely make you think about things, about your own feelings, your feelings about the world around you and of your place in it, and that can look like anything: it can be discomfort, but it can also be enlightenment, catharsis, politics, values, humanity, humility, joy, sadness, anger, or something you can't even put into words, but it'll be something you wouldn't have thought about until you saw the art. Art is meant to make you think about things, but not what to think OF them. We have enough things in the world telling us what to think.
The idea that it should only make you uncomfortable, to me, is not only too negative but also dismisses the thing that makes art great in the first place, that whatever it's about, what it means is what it means to you and you alone.
But of course, that's all just one person's interpretation.
Thanks for this inspiring retrospective piece on Performance Art.
thank you AA. as performance artist i feel very connected with the whole selection of artist you made. warm regards!
I would love to visit a gallery and have something like that happen to me. Wow! Got love 'crazy' artists.
I dunno, this became sort of difficult for me to rationalize when the video discussed the performance art schools, and then went on to say performance art was a comment against the commercialization of art because it offered artists "a way to make art outside of the often-oppressive market system." This seems like an extremely unaware thing to say when we talk about economic privilege. Like, how well-off would one had to have been in order to attend one of those schools for performance art? And just because the art isn't able to be commodified in a way that one can buy it doesn't mean it operations outside of the market system-it costs something like $30 to get into MoMA, which might not be a lot for for some, but is absolutely restricting to others. And how well-off do one of these artists need to be in order to practice performance art in lieu of having a job? When discussing stuff like market forces and art, I think it pays to be aware of the artist's relative privilege. So, yeah, I guess I "buy" performance art, but only because it's not really free.
I love the last sentence in this. SLAAAYYYYY
Sure, class privilege will always play a role in a capitalist system, this however doesn't take away all of the potential of the medium of performance to free itself from the art industry and market
I as a performance artist work as a commercial photographer to support myself. What you said about performance artists can be said about any artist, most work "day" jobs to support their art making. Also outside of the US art school doesn't have to kill you financially, I have experience in both France and Germany and in these countries higher education is almost free.
@@daaave_m If art happens in the forrest and an Admin / Curator doesn't see it.....
I agree, Kyle Can Gogh. However, I guess the point here is to use this narrative ("a way to make art outside of the often-oppressive market system." ) and then to surrender to the system's charms. Unfortunately, this is much more common among performance artists that among other types of art. Anyway, bluntness is always welcome to make art dynamic and performance art does precisely so, regardless of how credible it may sound.
Returning back to this video 7 years later while I'm getting ready to see the Marina Abramovic retrospective at the Royal Academy. So good as always.
The dachshund UN sounds like a good time.
nice to see and read the comments below.....for some people begun to quite understand performance art and art in general.... especially to where are is right now and where it is leading to in future......... performance art for me like any other medium of art is a sort of like mystical and unearthly manner of communicating through codes, spaces, or through total interaction or giving an idea through a secret language or slamming it right on the face for people to know...... art now is more about questioning and experimenting our emotions, comfortability, security as person, our ideals and beliefs, and our very being of rational thinkers who loves to ask and question our world and wonder of the beauty around us........................ ................ hope more people will try to do art even just one time in their life...... study history of art, appreciate and learn from masters of the past and present, learn some traditions and rules..... but after knowing and immersing in the art of yesterday and today and after reflecting and appreciating the very art itself of human development over time in history, is the time to ask for yourself what art is, to begin questioning your own existence and experiences, experimenting your resources, and touching your emotions, to create your own art a bit different from those of today and yesterday, and to break all the rules and traditions you already knew from studying.....but do it for art and experimentation and not to offend and intentionally nonsense or unconscious thinking of doing art....but after all art is generally accepted as subjective..so who knows what art really is....for it's impulse, spontaneous, like a snap or a blink....ever changing, ever asking, ever experimenting, ever making us feel and experience a bit of freedom under our own control and capacity...but it has reason...it has something asking for..or something experiencing for...maybe a still subject of a painting...or the subject of emotion and interactive concept like in performance art... :) just my opinions....and just sharing. peace.
I really appreciate this series. I feel like it help shed light on a lot of stuff that I don't see as art in a different way
Fantastic!
These videos are the dream.
Thank you for your vlog! You are an awesome storyteller and i enjoy every minute of every essay on every topic. Good luck to you 🤍
This is so good. I probably need to watch this 10 more times to fully unpack everything in it. I love Marina Abramovic.
I love her work too. I saw/participated in her epic piece in London, 512 Hours, and I could have done so for hours. It was fascinating (though much harder to explain in video). At some point Marina saw me, asked what I did, and said I should rest for as long as I wanted; then she had me lie down on a cot and tucked me in.
It's so get to get people involved in the arts, as well!
Yep. It's this one. This one is my favorite.
Confession: I think it's mine, too. I didn't know how it would turn out when it was just a script and a bunch of extremely varied clips and images, but when it came together, magic! It's due to the fine work of our editors Brandon Brungard and Mark Olsen.
Always a big high five to Brandon and Mark for their great work!
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My soul needed this...
So much info, I love it. A nice video to start my research furter in Performance art and modern theatre.
This namedropped a lot of art i didn't know the artists of and what the titles were and seeing them paraded in conveniently in one place just blew my mind. Mega ultra hyper thanks, truly day to day livesshould be steeped with artistic actions, so everything can be uncomfortable/ fun --- interesting :)
There was so much I didn't know. Very informative.
This was very interesting!! I remember around 15 years ago I went to the Venice Biennale, I walked into a gallery space which was empty and felt immediate discomfort that something wasn't right and then out of nowhere I was surrounded by lots of people in black cloaks singing "this is so contemporary" I felt so uncomfortable and wanted to leave, but I was surrounded. It stook with me all these years, both their actions and the feelings I got from it, so by that, it must have been one of the most powerful pieces of work there. Over the years I have been to (and been part of) theatre which edges into this realm, walk about theatre where everyone walks around the building coming across acts which may or may not break the fourth wall and bring you into the action. You never know what each room, corridor, storage cupboard or even lift is going to bring and it's a type of theatre that has worked really well in my experience.
I love this video. Almost 4 years ago, I stumbled spoken word poet Sarah Kay's Tedx talk and fell in love! Having been a writer and musician for over 10 years at that point, I couldn't resist delving into this beautiful new world I'd found. Within a week of finding those first new poems, I'd written 6 new works of my own.
Cool fact about my life: I was a part of Tino Sehgal's "This Progress" in Paris last october to december. Best experience of my life by far.
One of the most enlightening and useful videos I've seen. I feel like i'm going to have to run through this video several times just to manage to absorb the sheer quantity of insightful information.
Thank you very much. This is extremely nourishing.
This video was so good! Thank you so much, very well said :)
Hugo Ball was so influential, the Talking Heads made a song using his poetry which laid the groundwork for their album Remain in Light
4:34 that's it, I have found my favourite piece of art
reject humanity
come enjoy salad
this was a great video! great editing, great presentation :D
1:40 Oskar Schlemmer
4:12 Allan Kaprow - Household
6:01 Joan Jonas - Mirror Performance 1
6:39 Jannis Kounellis Untitled
Great explanation and video. Great Art lesson
A lovely précis of the formless form.
I'm such a layman when it comes to non-music art and these videos are just... 👌🏻👌🏻
This September I was able to take part in my first piece of performance art, with a friend of mine. It was inspired by the band Nova Strange. I can’t wait to do more. It was very challenging, but also inspiring and fun. 💜
Great video. Thank you!
Good stuff! Much appreciated.
There was a long-term performance piece at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit. There were 5 women who would take turns throughout the day on a revolving platform, slowly playing an electric guitar in a large, circular space created by a curtain of gold streamers.
I felt like I was intruding on her space when I walked through the curtain. I was walking into something private and contemplative.
"...Buckminster Fuller..."
(cue awesome guitar riffs)
I ❤️ Love ❤️ it PERFORMANCE art 🎨 ✨️ Is Uniqueness
Chris Burden is the best. So sorry he's gone, he had a lot of projects in progress when he died. Only one of those works was completed and exhibited that I know of. Doomed is my favorite piece of his.
Muito bom! Just loved.
This helps me a lot, thank you
Amazing video!!!
where can I find the video of Ben Patterson's Variations for Contrabass?
I like this channel precisely because it's always an excursion waaay outside of my familiar world. Every one of your video essays is a dafuq that stays with me and I think back to later.
Does anyone know what the title of the image of the gallery full of paintings is at 0:34?
Eu precisava muito assistir esse vídeo hoje 🥰✨
Your videos are amazing! well realised ans so interesting ? Thanks a lot !
my fave series in this channel. do coco Chanel next?
In the conversation and spectrum of performance art, I’ve always been curious to know where performance artists feel dance stands. I’m a professional dancer, I’ve studied different forms of primarily western dance for my entire life, I have a degree in dance, but I still feel so confused by the blurry like between the two. Is dance encapsulated within performance art? Or is it just a question of whether the performers identify as dancers and the creator as a choreographer? The argument of dance needing choreography and training has been addressed decades ago with improvisation and dance studying normal human movement like walking, sitting, and standing.
I’ve mostly been among dancers, so I would like to hear the perspective of another kind of artist on this.
The video is great by the way!
I personally think that they are both one in the same, but different mediums. Performance art I think is more eccentric and in your face. Dance can be performance art and make you think, like This is America or Lady Gaga stuff.
I think they are both forms to express yourself through your body, but dance isn't always made to make you think or react.
@@salamandah69 That's really interesting, so you're saying that since dance can be more of an aesthetic thing that is enjoyable to see it doesn't necessarily have to get into that eccentric, reactive place to be dance? Dance itself does have a pretty wide spectrum. I've watched dance performances that purposefully make the audience feel uncomfortable or sort of frenzied, and I think those are the kinds of dance that can cross the blurred line into performance art. Because I guess not all dance or art has to be pretty. And observing someone use their body to express an idea can become a really visceral and raw experience.. but I think there are extremes dance won't go to, like starvation or physical harm. I've read about performance art that really takes the artists bodies to physical extremes in a less "gumby" and more "omg they might die" sense. I think that sounds like the level of eccentricity and reaction that you're getting at.
@@gen_li7725 Yeah! I do think sometimes in those cases it could be dance and performance art. I think that performance art is reactionary. Dance is aesthetic or expressing emotion, but in some cases, performance art if it is to incite thought and emotion from people
Can you suggest any academic books about how to have this in a Museum? Love to learn but when did the performance leave the theater stage and go into galleries as art? It's not even public information for people to apply to have their performance in Museums🤔
This is fantastic
i agree with kyle can gogh's comment especially in reference to the commercialisation of art. i also enjoyed the conclusion at the end of the video
wonderful channel! My opinion...since I studied at in my country I had a point of view on performance concepts I think after watched this well done video remains the same I only see: Catharsis (from Greek κάθαρσις katharsis meaning "purification" or "cleansing") is the purification and purgation of emotions-particularly pity and fear-through art or any extreme change in emotion that results in renewal and restoration. It is a metaphor originally used by Aristotle in the Poetics, comparing the effects of tragedy on the mind of a spectator to the effect of a cathartic on the body.
(Wikipedia)
The Art Assignment is single-handedly saving the art world. To be able to discuss these topics with deep appreciation and respect with zero cynicism is so important. I have so much respect for this channel. All art deserves to be understood. what a beautiful answer to the resounding "Why?" that too often is asked of more challenging artistic movements. Keep up the good work.
I'm so glad this was in my recommended videos list. You've just got yourself a new subscriber
everything just slotted into place
God I love these so much
Have to watch this for uni
Body's involvement in making art.
Canvas = Arena in which to act.
Picture = event.
3:50 - Alan Kaprow - become part of happenings and experience them at the same time / something spontaneous.
5:10 - Body is Political
Great video :)
Excelente video, ojalá pudieran poder su canal en español también o los subtítulos. Saludos.
Very informative. Even though I'm not a fan of performance art
Art performance is my favorite art medium, specially Marina Abramovic's work.
first of all, great video!
does anybody know the title of the performance shown in the thumbnail? And also in 0:18? (the two people having some sort of linen around their heads that connects them)
thanks! :)
Julia Hasenpusch I’m dying to know about the title of it as well 😂
Franz Erhard Walther
What an amazing introduction! 😂👏
Wow, what is the drawing at 0:34? Incredible.
I didn't really understand the difference between performance art and theater or flexux, do they have scripts?
Hii. Could you suggest few schools for performance art studies?
Love it
Thank you!!!!!!!!!!
Movement. Yes. Relax and move on.
Go with the flow!
Such a good video! Lol I just did a presentation on this the other day and we used a lot of the same quotes
You have excellent taste.
Well researched & well scripted...
How do I find performance art?
Yes :D Great video. Thank you Art Assignment !
You are welcome. Thanks for watching!
What´s the name of the painting at 0:37?
Nice work ! Does someone know something about the thumbnail of the video ? The image is haunting!
It's knowing about and getting it to be done! We like it and hope you like our stuff if you happen to run into it.
Amazing
Editing tip : Since this video is loaded with information, I'd suggest to take pauses to let the information set in in the viewers brain.
Abramovićs “The Artist Is Present,” so moving when her embattled and estranged lover sat across from her. She went from stoic, to happy to sad, as the years seemed to become present to all who watched.
you guys should make a bauhaus video!!!
THAT INTRO!!!!!!
I was hoping we would bring up drum corps (marching band shows) because you do preform a show
This video makes me feel: ^_^
Good performances don't make you uncomfortable. Unless is the specific intention of the piece. the treatment of the spectator, as a moving part it self, is an intricate and complex subject. Needs a life to learn and least understatement due to the new ways of contemporary art (conceptual for example)