“performance as a medium”
Opposite view on ‘performative documents’
‘Performance’s only life is in the present’; that it ‘cannot be saved, recorded, documented, or otherwise participate in the circulation of representations of representations: once it does so it becomes something other than performance’ -Peggy Phelan
‘Documentation does not simply generate image/statements that describe an autonomous performance and state that it occurred: it produces an event as a performance’. It is the photograph that creates the performance, and continually creates it every time someone sees the image. Here, whatever is alive in performance is initiated through its mediation. - Philip Auslander
In recent years, these works and their documentations have radically challenged practices of curation, exhibition and preservation of art by shifting the focus from the object to the process behind and around it.
an influential American performance, video and installation artist
His foundational performance and video art was characterized by "existential unease," exhibitionism, discomfort, transgression and provocation, as well as wit and audacity, and often involved crossing boundaries such as public–private, consensual–nonconsensual, and real world–art world.
Holding a camera, aimed away from me and ready to shoot, while walking a continuous line down a city street.
A Set of rules : Try not to blink. Each time I blink: snap a photo.
http://www.vitoacconci.org/portfolio_page/blinks-1969/
He selected random passersby on New York City streets and followed them for as long as he was able
is an American artist and filmmaker. Her work combines art with social commentary, particularly on the relationship between people and technology.
Roberta’s Body Language Chart (1978)
In Roberta’s Body Language Chart, Roberta is photographed during a psychiatric session with annotations interpreting her body language.
https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/lynn-hershman-13108
Ian Breakwell (1943-2005)
‘dematerialisation’ of the art object from its traditional, commercially marketable format
Many artists of this generation used the techniques of the social scientist, documenting their lives or the lives of those around them using photography, recorded notes and journals
The Walking Man Diary records the repeated appearance of an unknown man walking a regular route around the Smithfield area in the City of London, where Breakwell was living at the time. From the window next to his desk, the artist spent much time gazing out at the scene below. He described how one day, he noticed a man.
https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/breakwell-the-walking-man-diary-t07701
‘The Lunch Triangle’: Pilot work B. Codes and Parameters (1974)
The Lunch Triangle formalises the way in which perceptions are constructed of complex interpersonal situations from limited coded information. Three scenes are presented in a sequence, each one involving you in constructing part of a perceptual model of the relationships between three depicted persons.’
Living with Practical Realities(1978)
Across three panels, Stephen Willats explores the realities of living in a 1970s British tower block. The work centres on Mrs Moran, an elderly woman who lived at Skeffington Court in Hayes, West London. Willats photographed and interviewed Mrs Moran over the course of six months. The text in the work is based on these interviews. In his composition, Willats highlights the physical, social, and economic constraints that Mrs Moran experienced. Each panel also features a question. These invite the viewer to participate directly in Mrs Moran’s lived experiences.
Although originally untitled, this work has become known as Ben Nevis Hitch-Hike. In April 1967, Richard Long walked and hitch-hiked from London to the summit of Ben Nevis and back. The journey took six days, and at 11am each day he took two photographs. For one photograph he pointed the camera straight up, and for the other he pointed it straight down. The photographs which appear in the work are the only ones taken on the journey.
yousharknotpass
gummygunk
turnnoffyourmind
stormborns
prguitarman
pixelskylines
s-u-f-j-a-n-s-t-e-v-e-n-s
vaporwave
romaincrisis