Performing participations #4

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1. From power of relations to poetics of relations Performing participation #4 NYU ITP 2015. 10.5 Taeyoon Choi
2. Topics - Body - Documentation - Myth - Re-enactment
3. Body Body is a very versatile interface. It has input and output, as well as the ability to hold memory, store information and process complex programs at the same time. It maybe the most complex machinery. ! Body is also a cultural object, it inherits identity and embodies cultural context. Body is never without history. Because of this lineage, body is often a site of confrontation and contestation. ! Body is an artistic medium, it’s a tool for expression and representation.
4. Documentation Documentation is an important part of performance, it’s a vehicle for making art history, recreating the experience of live event. It is also an artifact and archive of time lived.
5. Myth We will focus on two artist, one is a shaman and the other the therapist. Both artists are prolific and significant, one focus on art’s symbolic power and the other use art to heal.
6. Re-enactment Re-enactment is one way of preserving and presenting performance art work. There are various approaches like staging the same work as close to the original as possible, or reinterpreting the work as new work. ! For next week’s class, you will create a re-enactment or recreation of a work by Beuys or Clark.
7. Joseph Beuys 1921-1986 Germany
8. How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare. 1965
9. I like America and America Likes Me, 1974
10. “A SOCIAL ORGANISM AS A WORK OF ART” I Am Searching For Field Character, 1973/74
11. “EVERY HUMAN BEING IS AN ARTIST”
12. Boxing Match for Direct Democracy, 1972
13. Democracy is Fun, 1973
14. Organization for Direct Democracy by Referendum, 1974
15. Lygia Clark 1920-1988 Brazil - Paris
16. Dialogue: goggles, 1968
18. “True participation is open and we will never be able to know what we give to the spectator-author.” Lygia Clark and Hélio Oiticica, Letters, 1968-69
19. “I don’t even put on my masks and clothes, but I hope someone will come along and give meaning to the formulation.”
20. “And the more diverse the lived experiences are, the more open is the proposition and it is therefore more important.”
21. Lygia Clark, The I and the You: Clothing/Body/Clothing, 1967
22. Lygia Clark’s proposition Rede de elásticos (Elastic net), 1974
23. Utopia can be an exploratory process, organic and evolutionary as opposed to definitive and rigid structure.
24. Richard Buckminster Fuller and his students in Black Mountain College, 1949
25. Some contemporary artists exploring the modes of participation.
26. Mary Mattingly, Waterpod, 2009
28. Eduardo Navarro, XYZ, 2015
30. Power of relations Poetics of relations
31. Knowable Unknowable
32. Root identity Relational identity