FRED.. look at this video

Fred... here is the video sculpture that I wanted you to see by Seattle artist Tivon Rice. Go check it out. His website is www.tivonrice.com as well if you are interested .

Paul

http://www.tivonrice.com/osteotomy.html

enact

disguise: indentity (final 5 min exercise and final performance)

Me in a disguise. This was used for my final at a local bar. I added to the disguise (fingernail polish, all black clothing, boots, leather watch and arm band and earings) and went to the bar 30 minutes before our class met for the final. One of my class mates sat down beside me not long after at the next table and never recognized me. Nor did the instructor. Several calls were made to me trying to locate me for the final but I did not answer them. At 4 pm (30 min after class had started) I made myself known to the table next to me of class mates. Performance final complete!

red balloon

re-trace

Performance piece retracing another students day that was listed numerically and exchanged in the class.

Reenactment

not my day

body piece (public)

time to take it public!

5 minutes #5

absurd piece

same noises, in a private setting this time

5 minutes #4

experimenting with sound and what is acceptable in public versus private

Bush 08'

Spin Cycle

and here's a little something extra, for those o you interested in the hair whacking...

sandwich

Just because I found it amusing

What is a Masterpiece and my most recent 5 minute thing.

Exercise 5

ehh...

More Paper Rad

Everyone should seriously buy this DVD...

PAPER RAD!!

I fucking love these guys...

My performance backlog

Some combination of being busy and being lazy has kept me from uploading these things...still need to post the one with me reading and spewing soap.

Narrative- NAZI Break-up

Bum Song

Sorry guys, Blogspot wasn't letting me sign in for the past week or so... I have no idea why. Gmail hasn't worked for me in two weeks either... Weird.

Endurance meets Ritual

Idea Generators

I think I am running out, so I tried to generate some.

infomercial

do this....

Call for Video Art - [PAM] @ CAM / Chelsea Art Museum
Perpetual Art Machine
(New York NY)
[PAM] @ CAM / Chelsea Art Museum – CALL FOR VIDEO ART
Video Art in the Age of the Internet

August 9-25, 2007
Co-curated by Nina Colosi and [PAM] founders

Perpetual Art Machine, [PAM] would like to extend an open call for single and 3 channel video works created after 2001 to be considered for inclusion in a group exhibition at the Chelsea Art Museum.

Deadline for submissions: Wednesday August 1, 2007

Requirements.
Artist must be a registered member of at the [PAM] video portal.
So register if you haven’t already, its free.
http://www.perpetualartmachine.com

Format: quicktime DV NTSC


Layout: 3 channel artworks must have layout schematic included.
see details at http://perpetualartmachine.com


Length: 1-10 minutes

ARTIST INFORMATION
First and Last Name:
Address:
Country:
Email address:
Website:
Phone (include country code):
Mobile (include country code):
Link for submission:
Short bio (200 word max.):

ABOUT YOUR WORK
Title and Year:
Number of Channels:
Duration:
Original format:
Description:

TERMS & CONDITIONS

1) Maximum of 3 submissions only per artist. Collaborations are welcome.
2) Please do not submit work created before 2001.
3) Incomplete applications will not be considered for participation.
4) No artist fees are available.
5) Submissions will not be returned.
6) By participating in this open call for video you fully accept these terms and conditions and agree that if you are among the selected artists, [PAM] may show your work at the Chelsea Art Museum, from August 13-25, post it on its website www.perpetualartmachine.com, and use it in any of its communications materials.

Please mail all submissions to

Perpetual Art Machine
355 West 36th St, 3rd Floor
New York, NY 10018

Deadline for submissions: Wednesday August 1, 2007
For more information please contact:
pam@perpetualartmachine.com

[PAM] Perpetual Art Machine Organized by Chris Borkowski, Aaron Miller, Raphaele Shirley and Lee Wells

"If there is any movement or group of artists who have inherited the mantel of Nam June Paik it is this group, although of course they are doing their own thing."
- Michael Rush, Art Basel, Art Salon, December 2006

"Cacophonous juxtapositions give way to calming abstractions as video works, and reworks, its magic" - Sarah Kessler, Artkrush.com

[PAM] presents its most evolved and emergent system to date. Perpetual Art Machine is a living archive and research project that offers a global survey of 21st century video art. In a little over a year, the [PAM] community and video database/archive has grown to over a thousand established and emerging video artists contributing artwork on a global level. By inviting both the artist and the viewer/user to participate in its interactive installations and its online free community video portal the whole process and evolving systems culminate in an immersive and interactive video experience that democratizes the curatorial process through folksonomies (keywords) and user participation.

In just over one year, [PAM] has been presented in 9 countries and 16 cities through installations, screenings and lectures. The project has also expended its role in the world of video art by the use of web 2.0 practices and community out reach that encouraged it's artist and curator members to curate freely from the website video gallery and database. [PAM] continues to further the awareness and understanding of video art.

[PAM] will be presenting its first exhibition at the Chelsea Art Museum August 13-25 curated by Nina Colosi. In addition to the interactive installation, [PAM] will be hosting a roundtable discussion and will be featuring single and large scale three-channel video projects from the most innovative artists in the [PAM] community.

exercise #4

Peeing... 'nough said

eardrum maestro

5 minutes.

Mow

clean edited

matthew barney

matthew barney

matthew barney

matthew barney

check it...,

body

vacuum

5 minutes #3

one noise

David Greg Harth

NYC performance artist. Nice website, some nice works. Pretty well rounded artist. Found him on YouTube. Check out his website as well (linked at YouTube).

David Greg Harth

great identity example

I love this!

Are your legs touchable?

indentity: cam dance

Just what is says.

CHRIS BURDEN

Chris Burden

]

Putting on Face

portrait

Sue them all!

Ha! Just as a side note, I was watching South Park this evening and noticed a phone number... 1-800-SUE-THEM!
That must be why the number is just a busy signal when called.

I'm free and clear regarding my phony law video. Well, as far as the number anyway.

Audio piece posted at myspace.com/mareoni

State of the Union

narrative piece

5 minutes #2

I feel like this is a million times better than the first 5 minute exercise...

imcool

funrun

reenactment: law firm commercial spoof

Reenactment of local law firm commercials.

Perfect Smile

I took some sound from my Face Noise piece and put it with video I shot on a webcam of me holding a glossy picture of a perfect smile in the dark. SO thats what the video is. I also performed the piece live in a Yahoo romance chatroom, on webcam with a mic making the noises. I think I might re-perform it live every now and then, and post when I'm gonna do it on here.

Exercise 2

Fun times.

Shit Hits the Fan

So, I totally forgot to post this earlier...

Gobbledygook and other STUFF

Deadline: Received by August 15th, 2007
Issue V, Delusions of Grandeur, Winter 2007

WANTED: Artist’s Writing, Artists who Write, Text-Based Work, Manifestoes, "Classified Ads", Letters to the Editor, Comics, Jokes, Food, Issue Specific Proposals, Multi Issue Ideas, Rants, Raves, Gobbledygook and other STUFF.

Next Issue Theme: Delusions of Grandeur

Description: Writings and submissions wanted for publication. Daily Constitutional is an artist run project consisting of the publication of a magazine in themed issues, the first of which was released December 2005 at the Miami Art Fairs. Daily Constitutional is currently seeking submissions for the 5th Issue for release at scopeMiami, December 2007, as well as submissions that may span several issues using any part of the publication. In addition Daily Constitutional is accepting proposals for work made specifically for the publication.

Questions: info@dailyconstitutional.org
Submissions: submissions@dailyconstitutional.org

sound art opp

Deadline: October 15th

WANTED: Sound Art for SoundCast, a downloadable sound exhibition curaded by the folks at Daily Constitutional. Daily Constitutional reviews submissions for SoundCast on an ongoing basis. Please allow 6-8 weeks for a response as to the status of submitted audio works.

1) Audio works should be mixed for two channel listening

2) There is no length limit to the audio works but remember people will be downloading them and large files might be a deterrent to listeners

3) Submitted sound files should be compressed in MP3 format

4) Submissions should also include:
Image to accompany download
Title of piece, Date
Artist Name
Length of piece
Short description if you would like to set up the piece or if there are specific instructions

5) Submissions will be accepted via e-mail at submissions@dailyconstitutional.org until our online application process is up and running

6) Questions can be answered by submissions@dailyconstitutional.org

now!

Winter Solstice VI: Video as Art: The Fragmented Focus
The Studio, an Alternative Space for Contemporary Art
(Armonk NY)
Call to Artists: Winter Solstice VI: Video as Art: The Fragmented Focus, juror, Thom Collins, Director, The Neuberger Museum of Art

December 22, 2007 – January 27, 2008

Deadline: Postmarked September 21, 2007.

Notification (email if accepted) Sunday, October 28, 2007.

Mail SASE: The Studio: An Alternative Space for Contemporary Art, 2 Maryland Avenue, Armonk, NY 10504
$35. entry

Downloadable form: www.thestudiony-alternative.org

Website: www.thestudiony-alternative.org

do it...

DRIFT 2007 Exhibition @ Rush Art Gallery, NYC
DRIFT
(Santa Fe NM)
Drift is an annual exhibition that travels to a new location every year. DRIFT 2007 marks its 5th anniversary and is scheduled as a two-day performance art and video art show at Rush Arts Gallery in the Chelsea art district in New York City. The show will take place during NYC's Performa Biennial Performance Art events in November.
** Open Call for live performance art proposals and video art proposals.
Postmarked July 13, 2007

Please contact us at: www.driftartproject.com if you are interested in submitting a proposal.

**Curated by: Eileen Olivieri Torpey and Bradley Pecore

DRIFT characterizes the impermanence and site-specificity of the artworks as well as the adaptive qualities of the participating artists. DRIFT highlights talented under represented artists while emphasizing the critical role of experimentation and process within both conventional and unconventional exhibition spaces.

DRIFT was first conceived in the winter of 2002 as a one-day exhibition on the Jersey Shore. The Atlantic Ocean inspired temporary works by twelve artists from the greater New York City area. Fluxus artist, Geoffrey Hendricks, punctuated the day with a famous headstand on a pile of ocean boulders. In 2003 the show moved to a former home of Buckminster Fuller, River Run Farm in New Jersey. Artists responded to thirty acres of pastoral/river landscapes and the cultural history of the farm, which was part of the Underground Railroad in the early 1800's.

In 2004 DRIFT took place at Valentino Pier Park, located on the Buttermilk Channel in Red Hook Brooklyn. The exhibition featured 20 artists working in video, painting, sculpture, installation and sound. Red Hook was one of the first areas in Brooklyn to be inhabited by Algonquian tribes and later settled by the Dutch. The surrounding landscape was named for its red clay soil and hook shaped peninsula. Today, the view from Valentino Pier includes: The Statue of Liberty, The Verrazano Bridge, and Lower Manhattan.

DRIFT 2006 took place at the Bronx River Art Center in the South Central Bronx and included 28 artists working in sculpture, installation, video and performance. Part of the exhibition existed outdoors along the Bronx River for one-day while the other part of the show stayed up for six weeks in the center’s gallery. The river covers 23 miles and runs through the Bronx and Southern Westchester. The Mohicans were the first people to live and fish along the river and named it Aquehung or "River of High Bluffs." Beginning in the 1700’s, European immigrants built twelve mills on the river and by the end of the 1800’s, the river was so polluted from industrial waste that people called it an open sewage. Today, school groups and community organizations are working hard to ecologically restore the river and have made substantial progress– there are now a growing number of fish and plant species that have returned.





Contact Information | © 1994-2007 New York Foundation for the Arts

yeah!

Art Parade Open Call
Deitch Projects
(New York NY)
We are now accepting submissions for the September 8, 2007 parade, which invites artists, performers and designers to create floats, placards, spectacles and street performances.

Deadline for applications: July 20, 2007

For submission parameters and more information, please visit our website: www.deitch.com

BAS JAN ADER

BAS JAN ADER

by Jody Zellen

Bas Jan Ader is both well known and little known as an artist. He died, or disappeared in 1975 at the age of 33, in a boat somewhere off the coast of Cape Cod. He was attempting to cross the Atlantic Ocean in a 13 foot sailboat. Why? For Art; as a performance that would challenge the boundaries between art and life. Ader's work pushed the (then) limits. He experimented with film, photography, installation, and performance.

Ader was born in Holland in 1942. He settled in Los Angeles in 1963 after sailing across the ocean from Morocco. This journey took eleven months. Once in Los Angeles Ader studied art and philosophy and became an active member of the Los Angeles art scene, exhibiting his works in numerous exhibitions and teaching at UC Irvine among other places.

Many artists working in Los Angeles during the 1970’s were interested in the relationship between art and life; between performance and photography; and the difference between the art object and documentation of an action. Ader's work fit within this conceptual framework. His performances and actions were well documented and presented as finished films or photographic works. Although conceptual in practice they were also visually sophisticated. He was aware of and interested in the work being made by contemporaneous artists such as Ed Ruscha, Gordon Matta Clark, Robert Smithson, and Chris Burden. Like many of these artists, Ader was interested in his presence and alterations to his surroundings. His body, face or shadow figured prominently in his works as subject and the object.

Amongst Ader's best known works is Untitled (Flower Work) [1974]. This piece, created as a film as well as a series of photographs, presents the artist arranging a vase of flowers. We see the artist’s body, dressed in black, from the hips to the neck. No face is necessary, for we are interested in his actions not his expression. As he arranges the flowers he carefully segregates them into the three primary colors: red, blue and yellow. Through the process of arranging and rearranging, the vase moves from being multicolored to being monochromatic and then back again to an arrangement that contains all three colors. As Thomas Crow writes in the exhibition catalogue, "The performance was his wry homage to and mockery of Mondrian, Rietveld, and the floral clichés of his native country."

Ader’s art continually made reference to his Dutch upbringing, and he often created pieces that suggested he was about to return there. Although he became firmly rooted in Los Angeles, he was always searching, and this search in mind and body became the subject of his art. In All My Clothes [1970] he photographed his clothes laid out on the roof of his house. This was reminiscent of packing a suitcase, a gesture indicating departure. Farewell to Faraway Friends [1971] is a color photograph that presents his silhouetted figure standing where the water meets the earth. Alone this image may be insignificant, but within the context of Ader's work it is both nostalgic and romantic. It evokes the aura of Dutch landscape paintings.

In many works Ader jumps or falls. He rolls off a roof in Fall I, Los Angeles [1970]. He jumps out of a tree in Broken Fall (organic) [1971], and rides a bicycle off a bridge into the water in Fall II, Amsterdam [1970]. He films or photographs these planned mishaps and presents the sequence of the adventure as his art. There is no denying that there is a certain sadness or sense of loss in all of Ader's works. Indeed, he created a film entitled I'm too sad to tell you [1971] in which he simply cries for the camera. The words "I'm too sad to tell you" address the extent of his despair.

For Ader art was a literal as well as a metaphorical journey. He was always searching. This search informed his photographs and films, but also led him to stage happenings, installations and performances. He was in the process of creating The Search for the Miraculous, a multi-part work, when he disappeared, lost at sea. Although his boat was found off the coast of Ireland a few weeks after he lost radio contact, the body was never recovered. What remains of Ader's short career are his photographs, films, and writing. Yet his works continue to influence and inspire successive generations of artists who see art not only as a journey, but as a process of discovery. As Ader once wrote, "The sea, the land, the artist has with great sadness known they too will be no more."

making my way down the list...

http://www.lidaabdul.com/

awesome!


I forgot how to set a link?

complain complain...oliver kochta

check it...,

http://the-artists.org/MovementView.cfm?id=8A01EE98%2DBBCF%2D11D4%2DA93500D0B7069B40

A brief history.....

I found this synopsis on the web.....I have deemed it appropriate for your consumption


We could say that performance art originated when the first human moved a body part for some reason other than the necessities of life. However, that person is definitely lost in prehistory. So the way I trace it is to when did it begin in something near its present form. To find this we have to find civilization in its near present form. This is the turn of the century.

The guys that get credit for it are the Futurist (an art movement) around 1908. Its leader was Marinetti. Marinetti was actually a poet. But one of the great beauties of Performance Art is that it has a place for poets, as well as visual artist and sound artist and theater artist. Its true wealth comes from the fact that it incorporates all the great disciplines of the intellectual world. Site for Futurist Manifesto of 1908 http://www.gru.com/library/ref/manifest.htm

Performance has always shifted toward the sensual and Valentine De Saint Saint-Point wrote the Futurist Manifesto of Lust. A female performer. Next came the DADA. They are the true beauties of the art world. They were a small group of people that met for only a few months at the Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich Switzerland in 1916. They were essentially nobody people that changed the way the world looked at art forever. Hitler mentioned the Dada in his Mein Kampf. (negatively of course). Although not in Zurich one of the major performers was Benjamin Franklin Wedekind or Frank Wedekind of Germany. Of the Zurich dada's there was Hugo Ball and Emmy Hennings.

In the 1920's prior to W.W.II there was the German Bauhaus. One performer to come from this was Schlemmer.

In the 1930's there was Black Mountain College, in North Carolina. Major performers were John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Buckminster Fuller. Be aware most these people are know for something else but all participated in performance art.

In the late 50's there was Kaprow's Happenings. Happenings were performance art. They had a really good run through the 60's. There was Robert Morris, performed in 1965 There was Yves Klein in late 50's and 60. creator of Klein blue. Joseph Beuys was associated with an art movement called Fluxus. It was very much performance art oriented. John Lennon's wife Yoko Ono was a performance artist associated with the Fluxus.

Performance Art took on political issues during the 70's and was kept alive during the 80's by what is called "Queer Theater". Usually in gay nightclubs dealing with Homosexual issues.

The 90's may have been its golden age. It came out of gay clubs and begin to deal with other issues of philosophical importance. We are at the end of the 90's. It probably will not die and its enlightened age may still be to come.

icecubes

performance exercise 2

Performance exercise 2: 5 minutes of baby talk.

?

Someone I don't know asked me to upload my videos to his website after seeing my Justin Timberlake piece...
A little creepy...

Another 5 minutes... Spinning and Whistling

The first few times I spun around I had too much fun....so I went into the house and ate some sort of Little Debbie lemon pie twinkie type thing so I could spin around and whistle something annoying and feel like crap. Ugh....I should have learned from Melody that spinning is not a good idea.

Time #5

body piece

5 minutes (#1)

this gets more awful everytime I watch it!

You Don't Know What It's Like

Yeah!

Sexy #3

peformance exercise 1

Performance exercise 1. Alphabet and numbers without moving the lips.

ritual: morning coffee. performance 3

EARTHLINGS

So this doesn't have much to do with performance class, but I wanted to pass it along anyway. I watched a movie entitled EARTHLINGS tonight. It is about Earth, it's inhabitants and human's treatment of animals. It changed my life and I am not kidding. I'm not a severe animal rights activist (I do love animals) nor am I a vegitarian... yet. The movie is a little over an hour and a half and has some of the worst footage I have ever witnessed. Take the time to watch the movie if you feel inclined. It is a horrifying insight into the human race as a supreme species.

WARNING!!! The movie is filled with extremely graphic footage of animal inhumane treatment on many, many levels. The worse I have ever seen. And for that reason, is why it should be viewed in my opinion.

The video is posted on my MySpace page. Click here.

Preview Pics

So, I did comedy. I think it's funny. It's called 'You Don't Know What It's Like' and here are some stills, because I think you deserve them.

sound piece

meat slap

About 5 minutes of face noise

ritual

yea....

go nuts....

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS; KANSAS & HIGH SCHOOL FILMMAKERS SUBMIT FOR FREE; CASH PRIZES ADDED!

The Wichita Association for the Motion Picture Arts (WAMPA) and the Tallgrass Film Festival announced the call for submissions for the 2007 Tallgrass Film Festival to be held this October 19-21st in Wichita, Kansas at the Warren Old Town Theatres and other venues across town.

The entry deadline for film submissions is July 1, 2007 with a late submission deadline of August 1, 2007. (Fee: Features $50. Shorts $25/ Late Submission Fee: Features $100, Shorts $50).

The Early Bird Deadline offers reduced submission fees; however, films must be submitted by March 20, 2007, to qualify for the discount. (Fees: Features: $45 and Shorts: $20).

Entries must be submitted on either VHS or DVD (NTSC format) and will be screened in either 35 mm, DigiBeta, Beta SP, or DVD as a final presentation format. Entries should be sent to:
3337 East Central, Suite 107, #124, Wichita, KS, 67208.

The 2007 Tallgrass Film Festival will screen approximately 15 features and 40 shorts. To submit a film, please visit www.withoutabox.com and follow official submission instructions.

WAMPA also announced that a cash award of $500.00 will be given to the Audience Award Winning Feature Film. This year’s cash prize is presented by longtime Tallgrass Film Festival sponsor, Spangenberg Phillips Architecture of Wichita, Kansas. A cash prize of $100 will also be given to the Audience Award winning short film.

Founded in 2003 by the late Timothy Gruver, the Tallgrass Film Festival is a program of the Wichita Association for the Motion Picture Arts (WAMPA), a non-profit 501©3 arts organization dedicated to entertaining and enlightening audiences from America’s heartland by showcasing the very best in independent cinema, including foreign, documentary, controversial, retrospective and premiering films.

Lela Meadow,
Festival Director

humor: "bill pay". project 2

Link

Sorry kids, the link didn't register in that last post.
www.thirteen.org/cityarts3/show10/uncutp.html

Janine Antoni

Interesting interview with Antoni...


Still from Loving Care performance piece…ritual, portrait, body, endurance?

Morning Ritual

Here is my piece as I showed it, but I’ll most likely be reworking it some.

Portrait

Heres looking at me, kid.

Greetings Artlings

I have an assignment for you:

by Tues-

film yourself talking(or making noise) to/at camera for 5 min. do not edit.

Number 2

So I have been working on my second piece. Chose humor. Although the piece is done, I had some problems again with the shadows. This may be a piece that I need a second person for to rid that problem.

Yeah, I changed my mind.

I'm apparently not doing reenacting/appropriation...i guess what I did is gonna be called a portrait. Yeah, so here's a picture. I'm thrilled. Oh, couldn't you tell?

I've learned...

that uploading and downloading video and working with YouTube is WAY easier the second time around!

Gilbert and George

www.myspace.com/mareoni

enduracnce

here it is with more footage and sound.

Endurance

http://www.youtube.com/v/w3Rj6nARTcM">

video image

how do you get an image to appear on your you tube video...mine just says image coming soon

endurance

ok...so my first attempt was unsuccessful, so I am trying again!

Veronica Mareoni

Ok, so I had created this ridiculous character a few semester ago named Veronica Mareoni. She's an artist who attempts to copyright and trademark every peice of text she possibly can. I've set up accounts for her all over the internet, and tried to get inot a few shows with her work as if she really exists. This is color swatch I made for her so she could promote herself in flashy colors.

I'm thinking of her existence as a sort of performance- and her work's inherent fictionality as an avatar for my own performative body of work.

candle

You Tube, you suck

I tried to post my video to You Tube but it accused me of an invalid file location. Can anyone tell me what I might be doing wrong?

David Eckard "Scribe" and "Tournament (Lumens)" performances

This is my friend David Eckard's work in Portland, OR. Check out his site as well... www.davideckard.com

http://www.davideckard.com/vid_scribe.html

http://www.davideckard.com/vid_tournament.html

Brushing

Yoko Ono "Cut"

One of my all time favorite performance pieces by Yoko Ono. Carnegie Hall, 1965.

Miss Cleo

Thought this was interesting and fun. Especially being a non traditional performance peice in the form of a semi-music videa. Maybe comedy or narrative or even identity/body. Is the performer male or female?

endurance: project 1

endurance: project 1

I’m with Paul…Long day

I hate my pc.
I don’t understand half of what I’m doing…I still hate my pc.
I bought a Mac…I hate my pc even more.
My new Mac won't be here for at least a week.
I'm REALLY going to hate my pc in a week!

Sneak Peek

Alright, this one tested my gag-reflex quite a bit...as does watching it. So it's the one I'll use. I did some post shots I thought I would splice in afterwards but I didn't use them after all so I took clips from them to tease you all with the wonderotasticness of it all. I'm excited because I feel like this is at least tangential to the hygiene related stuff I've been working on. Here are those clips from the cutting room floor...

Another attempt...but not the final one.

This didn't require too much endurance but at least my unibrow is gone. It wasn't painful at all in the process but afterward it hurt like a mother. Tried a few collaborative things with Melody today too - for the record. One was pretty interesting and was inspired somewhat by a "Please do not touch" sign that the Ulrich threw out. You know I'm all over those museum trashcans.

video camera egg toss

This is the video of Conan and I tossing the camera back and forth. We did a few more takes and got about forty feet apart but none of those files were intact. This one failed at about twenty feet. We dropped the camera about ten times before it stopped working; We sent it back to the warehouse as "defective."

because I can and you can't

Cheers!

Happy performancing/documentationing-see you all tomorrow at 3:30.

Vito Acconci

Vito Acconci

Mike Parr video

Bending the Rules

I've been working on a few ideas that relate to endurance-
But they're a little outside of what I think the assignment is really about. (There's no video of me performing the action, just the result.)
This video is something I shot last night with a borrowed SLR camera and a broken lens...
I took about 5,580 individual shots (about 3 hours of shooting) and compiled them into a video. I tried my best to hold the camera still while shooting, and to kepe my left eye closed the entire time. Holding my arms up for that long with a heavy SLR was pretty tough, and my vision started doing these strange on/off effects because I had kept one eye closed so much.
My shutter finger was so sore after all of those shots that it went completely numb.
Some things that interested me were:
The broken lens doesn't focus any more- focusing is based on distance from camera.
I tried to only shoot things as they were- trash and found objects.
My face was so close to what I was shooting that you can see my breath moving the trash in front of the lens.
Let me know what you think...

Mike Parr

Thanks for mentioning him Mason!

Mike Parr, Performance Artist

Summary: Mike Parr is renowned for his his often controversial and confronting performances that test the limits of body and mind. His performance piece "Close the Concentration Camps," in which he declared his support for asylum seekers in Australian detention centers, left his audience with a disturbing confrontation of a reality usually hidden by the ignorance of mainstream society.

Performance art is a process of using the body as subject matter. The work of art is presented physically to a proactive audience, challenging the traditional values of a static artwork where the audience is passive. The relationship between the artist, artwork and audience is very important and significant in the success of a performance and the publication of the message. Some artists who communicate their message through performance are, Mike Parr, Marina Abramovic and Linda Sproul.
Performance artist Mike Parr is renowned for his often controversial and confronting performances that test the limits of body and mind, specialising in self mutilation and sharp objects. In the performance piece `Close the Concentration Camps' at the Monash University Museum of Art in which he used self inflicted visible harm to display his pain in protest against Australia's treatment of refugees and asylum seekers.

The performance involved Parr sitting silently for five hours with his eyes, ears, nose and lips sown together with the word `alien' branded into his thigh, as a declaration of his support for the asylum seekers in Australian detention centers.


He was positioned in the gallery beneath enormous black lettering reading, `Close the Concentration Camps.'
No one was to speak to him and he was to respond to no one. His artwork became a subjective need for expression as he makes a strong comment on the political aspects of the world and injustice. By sewing his face he had become an object of art and the stitching represented the lack of freedom, sight and speech given to those in detention centers, `I want o use the language of my body art to make the strongest possible statement in support of the detainees" states Parr. Parr's artwork had become an expression of the solidarity and empathy he felt towards the detainees, this emphasized in the use of the text `alien' which was written on his thigh. Parr had become the artwork and therefore by this concept had blurred the boundaries between life and art.

The audience consisted to about three hundred and fifty people who visited the gallery to witness the performance, while others viewed the event through the Monash webpage. Parr's audience had become witnesses to the impact political and world issues have on individuals, which are usually ignored in society. Ultimately the audience is left with a disturbing confrontation of the reality which is usually hidden by the ignorance of mainstream society, making Parr's message successful. Thus the artist, artwork and audience are all linked in the creation of the artwork and the success of the performance, since one cannot exist without the other.

Attempt

I just wanted to try something out to get into the spirit of the assignment..it's no Acconci or Parr, and there's no prop, but it did hurt for a good 25-30 seconds!

Videos

Some videos from last semester:

Viewing Simplicity

We are gonna use 210.
Easy--wont overlap any other classes, etc. This means either a flash drive or dvd will work.

now im broke...

alright...just picked up my camera and tripod....and some gas....if anyone wants to donate me some money i will take it politely then laugh at you and run

I feel stupid…

I spent the morning reading the owners manual for my camera and a chapter out of our text book. The owners manual made me feel more stupid than the text book did. If I’m bald come Thursday it’s because I’ve literally pulled all my hair out trying to learn how to edit footage.

Geeky, geeky geeks.

A lot of digital cameras have video modes that aren't too bad- definately usable for Youtube and documentation... Digital cameras are also pretty cheap (starting at about $100).
They usually record to SD memory cards instead of DVC, which makes you a little more limited on file size, but you can also decrease the resolution to 320x240 and framerate to 15 fps, which is still higher quality than Youtube.
I have a few cameras that use Sd cards and I've had pretty good luck with them so far.
I also have things that you can borrow if you need to.

~Aaron

Yo!

Did we talk about how we need to format our videos for class? Are we shoing in the art history room on the screen or what. Maybe I missed it. Anyway, goodnight fellow classmates.

YouTube... blow me.

I am having trouble with YouTube and the linking process to this blog. So here is the URL for now. Holidays in Seattle... how nice!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-daiGDCqFI

Drawing Exercises

Syllabus

Kristin Beal-DeGrandmont
Performance Art: In Theory, In Body, In Motion, In Action/reaction


Text:
Art on the Edge and Over, Searching for Art’s Meaning in Contemporary Society 1970’s-1990’s. by Linda Weintraub

Objective: Students will gain a practical knowledge of the history of Performance Art. Studio projects provide a framework that will allow us to examine Performance Art from its birth in the Dada movement to Allan Kaprow’s Happenings and Jackson Pollock’s painting on glass, onto the many ways it has developed or manifested into the variety of mediums and artists that use ideas around performance art in their work today. Students will examine how Dada, Futurism, the Bauhaus and the Black Mountain College all inspired and helped pave the way for Performance Art.

Students are required to keep a journal dictating/documenting their experiences within each project. This will allow them to keep record of their triumphs as well as their blunders, and will become a great resource for future projects. Students are also required to document each performance.

Grading:
Students will be evaluated on the degree of improvement within the capacity of the individual. Evaluation is based on the level of dedication the student shows through their participation in the class.

Methods of Achievement:
Weekly critiques; individual experimentation; PREPAREDNESS; research.

I will use the standard letter grade scale:
A=Excellent
B=Good
C=Average
D=Below Average
F=No Credit

REQUIREMENTS

Mini DV Camera/ tripod

Attendance:
Students are expected attend all class meetings. More than two absences will constitute failure of the course. Work due on the day of an absence is expected for grading during the class meeting unless the instructor gives the student permission to turn the work in late.

Final critiques on projects will be treated as tests. Students must attend all project critiques.







Assignments:
Due dates for assigned projects will be firmly enforced.

Handouts:
Allan Kaprow from Assemblages, Environments and Happenings.
pp. 703-709
Art In Theory. 1900-1990. Harrison and Wood.

Some artists listed here are clearly performance artists; others can be classified as performance hybrids, using performative elements in their work.

Students should attempt to find unexpected solutions to the following projects.
Always consider solutions that have visual and/or conceptual parallels in other media.

Triggers:
Time, Motion, Layer/Collage, Silhouette/Shadow, Color, Mass, Shape, Size, Repetition

New performance Spaces: World Wide Web, Karaoke, Video/Arcade Games, Shopping Malls, Grocery Stores, Chili Cook offs, Reality TV

Projects:
1. Endurance. Limited to one prop.
Marina Abramovic pp. 59
2. Ritual
Marina Abramovic pp. 59
On Kawara pp. 51
Gilbert and George pp. 71
3. Process
Janine Antoni pp. 123
Haim Steinbach pp. 134
4. Comedy
Meyer Vaisman pp. 205
William Wegman
5. History-reenactment-appropriation
Sherrie Levine pp.248
Joseph Beuys pp.177.
6. Portraiture
Rimma Gerlovina and Valeriy Gerlovin pp. 236
James Luna pp. 98
Cindy Sherman
7. Body
Carolee Schneemann pp.165
Rimma Gerlovina and Valeriy Gerlovin pp. 236
8. Living sculpture
Andrea Zittel pp.184
9. Mail art
Ray Johnson, “How to draw a Bunny” dvd.
10. Record/retrace/reenact
A common action in the second (your) or third (Bob) person.
11. Instruction/directions
Yoko Ono * Sol Lewit
12. From Dada: Irrational, absurd and playful, confrontational
Marcel Duchamp
Nihilistic
13. Sound from alternative sources
Electrical, organic, manipulated……
Vito Acconci pp. 218
14. Spectacle
Matthew Barney’s Cremaster
Paul McCarthy
Paul Pfeifer
15. Narrative
Autobiographical tours of past landscapes
Spalding Gray
16. Patently Absurd
Invent something using irony and absurdity to make commentary about a social, private or political condition. Create an infomercial for your product.


Performances are due each Thursday, beginning June 7. With the last performance on July 26th. Attendance is required each Tuesday for an open lab and Thursday for critique. I will be available during class time (M-F).

Project descriptions are intentionally vague. What little information I offer in intended as a springboard or foundation for you to build upon. My goal is for you to begin to trust and understand the way you process information individually and from that knowledge you will then build a vocabulary unique to your vision/work.

One Project of your choice will be done in public (i.e. in front of the class/at the shopping mall/church service etc. the rest will be done with a video camera. Using video you should also consider editing for content.