The hosiery layers are artifacts of a private
performative act in which the artist wraps herself in hosiery material to enact a series of precise body positions, recorded while sleeping, into pools of acrylic paint on a canvas.
«A nation is a super - individual that is a phenomenological constant resulting from
performative acts in which individuals communicate and pool positively charged substance, including the charged space of territory and the charged story of the past.»
Primarily a painter, he has also extended his practice to mount large
performative acts in public spaces.
Not exact matches
There is nothing «
performative» about this scene, not
in Mara's
acting, and not
in the way Cowperthwaite films it.
One way of thinking about critical pedagogy
in these terms is to think of it as both a way of understanding education as well as a way of highlighting the
performative nature of agency as an
act of participating
in shaping the world
in which we live.
In contrast to Rosenberg's conception of painting as a performative act, Greenberg's theory, influenced by Clive Bell and T. S. Eliot, was essentially a formal one — in fact, it eventually evolved into what would be called «formalism.&raqu
In contrast to Rosenberg's conception of painting as a
performative act, Greenberg's theory, influenced by Clive Bell and T. S. Eliot, was essentially a formal one —
in fact, it eventually evolved into what would be called «formalism.&raqu
in fact, it eventually evolved into what would be called «formalism.»
Luna, whose heritage is Pooyukitchm (Luiseno) / Ipi (Diegueno) and Mexican American, recreates himself
in the aptly titled James Pollock, reversing through this
performative act a moment
in the colonial appropriation of Native peoples.
The notion of painting as process and activity, or even as
performative act, is explored
in moving images.
Stepping aside from performance as a medium and the
performative act of production, best characterised by Mota's studio - based compositions, her recent exhibition at the gallery, marks a major shift
in the practice of the artist, materialising a new form of sculptural animism and a new agency, while shifting the instrumentalization of the
performative into a series of coincidental and strictly conceptual
acts.
It is
in this manner, for example, that Jessica Warboys «Sea Paintings» came into existence — a
performative act between her and the tides of the sea —
in which she allows the waves of ocean to interact with the pigments upon a canvas.
With this connectivity
in mind, this exhibition of
performative and interactive works challenges the role of the audience and engages it
in acts of play and storytelling.
As a kind of
performative act — a «maintenance action,» as he called it — he not only cleaned the house but also removed window trim and baseboards, sanded the floors, and preserved cracks and discolorations
in the walls with polyurethane, to expose the house's skeleton and excavate its history.
An accomplished musician, Biggers often incorporates
performative elements into his sculptures and installations, resulting
in multilayered works that
act as anecdotal vignettes, full of wit and clear formal intent.
Her own self - portraits, a
performative act for Marcus, featured the artist
in varying roles and guises.
For me, landscape painting extends beyond observation and formal concerns, drawing on bodily sensations, energy from the nervous system, time awareness, muscle memory, an education
in twentieth - century art, and the
performative act of mark - making.
Often collaborating with other artists, or enlisting large groups to create «reality directed» performances and video works, Althamer has traveled around the world, staging major
performative events that range from obviously constructed spectacles to more subtle interventions like Motion Pictures,
in which he hired actors to perform everyday
acts, such as greeting a friend,
in a public square.
Infusing a poetic sensuality into Minimalism's legacy, Gabriel Orozco's works vary from sculptural triumphs to more ephemeral,
performative acts, such as rolling a huge ball of plasticine, of exactly his own body weight, through the streets
in order to «get an impression» of the world around him.
Initially conceived for the 13th Baltic Triennial - Prelude, CAC, Vilnius
in September 2017, the
performative installation investigates the
act of reading as an intimate experience, holding the potentiality to become public performance through the «outlouding» of words.
«
In linguistics, a speech
act is defined as an expression that serves a
performative function — it both describes and shapes reality.
Since 2000 she has written extensively on the documentation of performance art (After the
Act: The (Re) presentation of Performance Art, 2006) and
performative curatorial practices and has curated numerous exhibitions and performance series
in Europe as well as North America, including the series After the
Act, Again and Against and Push and Pull (2005 - 2011) at the Museum of Modern art (MUMOK)
in Vienna and TATE Modern
in London.
Despite their abstraction, West's films are highly referential, even documentary
in nature,
acting as a record of the specific time, place, location, participants and
performative actions involved.
«OTMA's Body,» on view until February 25th at Gavin Brown's Grand Street location
in New York's lower east side,
acts as a retrospective of sorts, showcasing garments previously worn during
performative fashion shows, alongside patchwork furniture and oversized plush toys.
In fact, in the same period that Rosenberg was writing and painters were «acting,» a variety of critics were decidedly unhappy about this nascent performative discours
In fact,
in the same period that Rosenberg was writing and painters were «acting,» a variety of critics were decidedly unhappy about this nascent performative discours
in the same period that Rosenberg was writing and painters were «
acting,» a variety of critics were decidedly unhappy about this nascent
performative discourse.
Abramović's new and vibrant interpretation of the original work invites the viewer to engage
in the dynamic and
performative artistic
act which Abramović is widely known for.
In Opie's work, gender is presented as a
performative act; her sitters often blur the boundary between male and female by assuming
These often generative projects grow with time and require continuous input, resulting
in performative acts as part of the work.As a Polish artist whose formative years were divided between communist Poland, refugee camps
in Denmark, and post-unification Germany, the intersections of economic and political structures are integral to Wisniowski's practice.
In Opie's work, gender is presented as a
performative act; her sitters often blur the boundary between male and female by assuming signifiers, from traditionally gendered clothing to facial hair.
Since 2008, the New York - based artist, poet, filmmaker, set designer, and costume maker Mary Reid Kelley has occupied a distinct niche within the contemporary art world, creating and
acting in short,
performative videos.
By MATTHEW NASH Andrew Mowbray is a sculptor
in the tradition of Joseph Beuys, whose objects exist to facilitate a
performative act, and remain as tangible evidence of that experience.
Adelita Husni - Bey's «Frangente / Breaker» at Museo del Novecento is a performance
in three
acts that combines a site - specific project with a
performative reinterpretation of a sound work from 2013 and a public action, brought together as a single reflection on authorship, on barriers, borders, and nationalism, and on the perception of otherness.
Drawers
act metaphorically perhaps, but also offer a
performative aspect to the paintings, the placement of the drawer itself as well as the hiding and revealing of the body, and like Himid's earlier «paintings on wood», these works offer the possibility of being looked at
in different ways by placing the draw this way or that.
Through the
act of permission, Grokhovsky shared the maker's privilege of accessing the work physically, as well as the experience of pleasure
in making it, juxtaposing the visual pleasure of viewing versus physical experience of
performative actions.
IMMA25 Meets... Jesse Jones, 1st April 2015 IMMA25 presented a special screening of Jesse Jones» The Selfish
Act of Community, followed by a discussion with the artist on the role of the group encounter therapy session
in both The Selfish
Act of Community and The Other North and how it may enact a
performative constellation of wider political impulses within a society.
Sound becomes a medium of performing history and,
in turn, listening a
performative act.
Often taking the form of
performative acts that extend from or relate to a particular space or place, Maxime's projects conceptually engage
in chronotopic explorations that excavate and interweave layers of histories, forms, relations, and meanings embedded within geographies, while underscoring latent and evident power dynamics.
Each orb was formed from a single exhalation of the glass - blower, making each a fragile representation of the
act of breathing, drawing a strong relationship to the body and via this, generating a
performative self - awareness
in relation to the work physically
in the visitor as they tread delicately through the gallery.
IMMA25 Meets... Jesse Jones, 1st April 2015 IMMA25 presented a special screening of Jesse Jones» (External) The Selfish
Act of Community, followed by a discussion with the artist on the role of the group encounter therapy session
in both The Selfish
Act of Community and The Other North and how it may enact a
performative constellation of wider political impulses within a society.
In his solo exhibition TOGETHER APART at Kunstverein Braunschweig he concentrates on a central aspect of the
performative act: the spoken word.
As if
acting as the underbelly to the rapacious actuality
in EAPR # 34, the vignette captured
in EAPR # 35 exposes the ensuing trauma that occurs
in the wings as we strive to fulfill our socially
performative roles — most of which remain immutably out of reach.
Each print, priced at $ 2,500, has three iterations
in which the image is increasingly obliterated — a trace of a
performative act, which also makes each piece unique.
It extended the work into the realm of a
performative act,
in which the process of making it is as important as the finished piece.Understanding that the advent of the written word arrived as the capacity of human memory deteriorated situates the portraits as a kind of documentation that might extend the reach of collective memory and historical consciousness.
We first saw Khan's work at NADA Miami
in 2017, where she exhibited her handmade «psychedelic prayer rugs,»
in which the repetitive patternmaking
acted as a
performative exploration of emigration and displacement.
The screening will be followed by a discussion with the artist on the role of the group encounter therapy session
in both The Selfish
Act of Community and The Other North and how it may enact a
performative constellation of wider political impulses within a society.
Matta - Clark transformed architecture into sculpture and installation via a
performative act, resulting
in a final photographic documentation.