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Historical Performance Presentation
Historical Performance Presentation
Historical Performance Presentation
experience historical
performance works through
documentation such as
photographs or written
accounts?
Jolanta Cyrek
Performance:
Interdisplinary medium
reflected the anti-commercial values of mid-century alternative
cultures
ephemeral form, difficult to exhibit,
defies the status of artwork as an object,
time-based work of art, often engaging the viewers,
undermine mimesis, the primary communicative means of
traditional visual art.
Summary:
Documentary of performance art became over time a
part of the performance itself as medium-specific notion
Without the documentary performance art ceases to
exists, is erased from the history like it never happened
It modifies and changes the understanding of the
performance art: the present aspect is collapsed and
deferred when confronted by its pre-recorded past
Because performance documentary evolved along the
medium of performance therefore the transfiguration that
performance undergoes through videos or photographs
can be viewed as a continuation of the organic, engaging
characteristic of the medium.
Bibliography:
Goldberg, RoseLee 1979. Performance Art: From Futurism to the Present
(London, Thames and Hudson)
New Media Encyclopaedia online. [accessed on 16.03.2013]
http://www.newmedia-art.org/cgi-bin/show-oeu.asp?ID=ML002608&lg=GBR
Perry, Gill. Wood Paul 2004. Themes in the Contemporary Art (New Haven
and London, Yale University Press).
Schimmel, Paul 1998. Out of Actions: Between Performance and the Object,
1949-1979 (London, Thames and Hudson).
Wagner, Anne 2000. Performance, Video, and the Rhetoric of
Presence, October, Vol. 91: pp. 59-80.