The term
performative refers to an action or speech that produces a specific effect.
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Other examples of
performative work explore the sensate aspects of bodily experience, as Ann Hamilton does in her intimately scaled videos of body parts.
In this first collaborative work, visual artist, Alma Tischlerwood and film - maker, Alex Forsey investigate the notion of mapping and the evolving language of urban space by merging film projection with
performative aspects of painting.
Both artists frame their work
as performative in character and have developed unique strategies wherein they incorporate works by other artists and cultural producers.
Fernández will engage in weekly
performative lectures on the various subjects that build this archive, expanding her artistic investigations of these stories from objects to oral histories and thereby developing an emerging sphere of its expression through language and performance.
Drawing on the stages and timings of a dinner party, the artist's unfold an array of
performative actions in their new work, «In Your Mind, Out of your Body Experience».
They will present a one - evening series of
performative acts as well as a group show with works by James Hoff, Franziska Lantz, Deborah Ligorio, Mara Ploscaru, Nicolò Russian and Priscilla Tea, which will open the same night.
Paul's exposition on Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye, an elaborately constructed scene where Ian Baker's restless camera cuts repeatedly between the four characters» constantly changing positions, exemplifies the way in which an intradiegetic audience is constructed and the overtly
performative nature of the action foregrounded.
Lindsay Seers will present a video installation with
performative elements in the ceremonial setting of the Grade - II listed Masonic Temple at Andaz London.
At Zeitz MOCAA, there will be an entire floor for educational programmes, a centre for curatorial studies, a centre for the moving image with six cinemas, and a centre for
performative practice.
Initially, in 2010 the gallery moved into a small 3m x 3m space and utilised other public spaces in the One Thoresby Street building
for performative events and larger exhibitions.
The artist generates the atmosphere of these works using
performative gestures, and her paintings reference an embodied self, reflected in the thickly textured, punctuated surfaces.
The Park Life Gallery exhibition, «(Invisible) Relic,» curated by Andrew McClintock, examines works by two generations of California Conceptual Artists working
with performative actions and re-appropriated objects in a variety of mediums including video, photographic, audio, sculpture and performance.
He seeks to create a long lasting and unsettling effect on audiences
through performative interventions that may be visible for fleeting moments.
In this second part of my conversation with Rockburne, we focus on the artist's early involvement with performance and how aspects of
performative events translate to the studio.
Leaving stoner films and weird
performative art pieces behind, the actor - director took on the best - worst movie ever made and crafted a riotous, surprisingly touching piece about complicated friendship, failures - turned - triumphs and cult movie madness.
Politics, fantasy, and religious correlations fuse into a powerful two - part installation and
performative piece by the Luanda - based artist that will change throughout the duration of the fair.
Yet this is far from a gloomy affair, lifted both by
performative interventions such as Allora & Calzadilla's rousing mobile operetta and the large - scale theatre designed by David Adjaye.
This course will trace the historical roots of performance in American visual art and situate the present
performative impulse within the changing landscape of modern art in the late twentieth century and early twenty - first century.
The MOCA curator anticipates that this sculpture, like his others, will have a dynamic, «almost
performative quality.»
Danish - born Christian Falsnaes deals with the issues of the authorship by constructing his own language and documents through the ongoing
performative process.
Bangkok - raised artist Korakrit Arunanondchai creates
performative paintings, videos, and installations, often making connections between the history of Western painting and art's current context in his home country.
Nguyen's mediums and process involves interactive installations that serve as
performative spaces to evoke a shared sense of humanity and experimentation.
London - based Argentinian artist Amalia Pica's work Strangers (2008) could just as easily be a «sculpture as
performative object» as it is «documentation and re-enactment of performance».
The New Scenario project was launched by Paul Barsch and Tilman Hornig as a time - based platform for
performative exhibition formats taking place «outside the realm of the white cube», and the two founders team up to for the concept and curation of Jurassic Paint, described as having works on canvas and «live size (sic) dinos».
Under the title «Immature», five sculptures made of polished stainless steel specially designed for the exhibition will be shown, whose
performative potential unfolds in the interaction between the space and the viewer.
Anahita Razmi will
present performative lecture Research Network: New Eastenders — The Prequel at London's Iniva (Institute of International Visual Arts) on January 25.
New York, NY: 29 August 2016 — Sperone Westwater is pleased to announce a new video installation by Bruce Nauman, widely regarded to be among the most important living American artists and as a catalyst for the recent shift in international artistic practice toward conceptual and
performative uses of language and the body.
A wunderkind who has also segued
into performative lectures (she did one alongside a bemused Hans Ulrich Obrist and Instagram founder Kevin Systrom in Miami last year), she has a big fall in the works: in September she is going to do a new «IRL performance» at Festival Hyperlocal in her native Argentina and have a show at the Monnai de Paris, and in October she will do another «not - super-traditional» performance at Frieze London.
Commissioned by Checkpoint Helsinki as part of Helsinki Festival, Khaled Jarrar's «Dis - / Obey» saw 50 volunteers participate in a large - scale
performative artwork led by the artist.
Throughout his career he has used
performative strategies to assert that his art has a place in the larger world and to contest the assumption of a self - reflexive conceptual framework.
First shown at the 1997 Whitney Biennial, «Santa Chocolate Shoppe» is an ongoing
performative series that ties together a wide range of Paul McCarthy's unnerving, psychosexual themes.
They often
create performative projects where the props that accompany the piece become artworks themselves.
Hubbard's video works evolve
from performative actions in the studio, and play an integral role in the artist's ongoing investigations into the construction and reception of images.
Like his predecessors, Rhoades
included performative elements in his installations and produced epic thematic cycles, drawing on mass culture to develop a dense weave of images and forms.
Many of the works in As We Perform It map out experiences or narratives through
performative self - representations in an attempt to answer the «where and how am I» inquiry, propagated by our sharing - obsessed society.
However, after leaving university his interests moved towards
more performative ways of making art and his early practice can be viewed in context of the Body Art movement that emerged on the West Coast of America during the late 1960s and early 1970s.
In the Spotlight section, devoted to solo presentations of historical works, Brooklyn's Southfirst brought a selection of
performative photographs by Jared Bark, made between 1969 and 1976, for which he employed the predetermined grid of the automatic photobooth strip, reprising the gallery's recent critically acclaimed exhibition of the artist.
Despite Martha's varied
performative roles and attributions, whether poised in humor or seriousness, her sincerity and truth rings to the highest of notes as is the absolute necessity of her words in the current day: «Artists who confront public taste should receive public grant support.
George Scheer of Elsewhere presented his new
performative talk alongside BMCM+AC Executive Director Jeff Arnal
He's started influential bands like the Pop Rivets, Thee Milkshakes, and Thee Mighty Caesars, although he's perhaps more famous for his involvement in the Medway Poets (a group of British writers who staged
performative readings at punk shows) and, above all, the Stuckists, the anti-conceptual-art movement that railed against the rise of the Young British Artists with virulent, humorous manifestos and colorful figurative paintings.
From painting, drawing, photogravure and video, «Fields Like Waves» captures the multiple
performative dimensions of translating fluid reality into images.
Lestel ask us to reframe the question of animality, asking us to view humanization as an
ongoing performative practice, rather than an historical threshold that was crossed long ago.
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