Performance Photography

performance/photography

1-performance/photography: changing relationship2-visual strategies :

presentation of self in everyday lifedefamiliarisationthe uncannycontemporary re-enactementimage theatre/the newspaper theatre

3-the friday club

presentation by paula roush for the friday club march 20th 2009 PIN09 (photographic index 2009) http://photographicindex.wordpress.com

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Performance_art

performance/photography: changing relationship

• Early days of performance art: 1960s/70s• Photography: primary role as documentary record

of events• Photographers may not be credited

A photo of Chris Burden's Trans-fixed 1974 performance art piece featuring him being nailed to a Volkswagen in Venice, CA. The photo copyright is owned by the artist, Chris Burden.

performance/photography: changing relationship

• Later developments performance art: from 1980s

• In general, original performance looses its unique importance, becomes a component in a process where photography is equally important (this is a simplification of a much more comples process)

• Photography: equal partner in creating the image

Marina Abramovic & Ulay,Rest Energy, 1980

«Rest Energy»

Standing across from one another in slated position. Looking each other in the eye. I hold a bow and Ulay holds the string with the arrow pointing directly to my heart. Microphones attached to both hearts recording the increasing number of heart beats.

http://www.mediaartnet.org/works/rest-energy/

performance/photography: changing relationship

When actions are performed solely for the camera: • the performance takes place within the picture• photography can stand alone as a visual artifact• can be equally ephemeral if projected onto a wall

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Presentation_of_Self_in_Everyday_Life

Nina Beier and Marie Lund Les Sabots

Children of the 68’ generation are gathered to make a face towards the camerafor the duration of a roll of film; 16mm film, 5m

http://www.ninajanbeier-mariejanlund.com/

http://www.artnet.de/magazine/features/abc08/abc08_detail.asp?picnum=43&ourlang=

Katerina Seda, There's Nothing There, 2003, Czech Republic)Saturday in May 2003, Ponetovice. A village close to Brno in Czech Republic. Katerina Seda asked the inhabitants of the South-Moravian village to synchronise their daily routine so they all did exactly the same things at exactly the same time. The action drew on the artist’s research into the everyday life of the locals , and its aim was to make people do things together and to show them – and the world – the village normality as a positive quality.

Kateřina Šedá, There Is Nothing There, action,24.5. 2003, Ponětovice. The artist asked all 300 of Ponětovic’s inhabitants to follow the same routine for a whole day. So the citizens at the same moment got up, went shopping, swept...

http://www.divus.cz/umelec/en/pages/umelec.php?id=1036&roc=2006&cis=1

George Hladík, my travel friends, 2005-2008, photography and video

http://www.georgeone.net/

http://www.timetchells.com/projects/performances/ten-people-smiling/

http://www.hugoglendinning.com/forcedentertainment.html

Hugo Glendinning, Forced Entertainment, 12am Awake and looking Down, Tate Modern 2003http://www.hugoglendinning.com/forcedentertainment3.html

Regina José Galindo, Guatemala, 1974 El BrincoBautizo o ritual de iniciación con el cual se le da la bienvenida a un nuevo integrante de la mara.(Bienal de Arte Paiz. Guatemala. 2008)

http://www.reginajosegalindo.com/

Regina José Galindo, Guatemala, 1974 El BrincoBautizo o ritual de iniciación con el cual se le da la bienvenida a un nuevo integrante de la mara.(Bienal de Arte Paiz. Guatemala. 2008)

Regina José Galindo, Guatemala, 1974 El BrincoBautizo o ritual de iniciación con el cual se le da la bienvenida a un nuevo integrante de la mara.(Bienal de Arte Paiz. Guatemala. 2008)

Regina José Galindo, Guatemala, 1974 El BrincoBautizo o ritual de iniciación con el cual se le da la bienvenida a un nuevo integrante de la mara.(Bienal de Arte Paiz. Guatemala. 2008)

Regina José Galindo, Guatemala, 1974 El BrincoBautizo o ritual de iniciación con el cual se le da la bienvenida a un nuevo integrante de la mara.(Bienal de Arte Paiz. Guatemala. 2008)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defamiliarization

Elzbieta Jablonska, Super Mother

http://www.culture.pl/en/culture/artykuly/os_jablonska_elzbieta

Martin Zet (CZ): "Confession Without Absolution"

http://www.hugoglendinning.com/yinka.html

Guillermo Gomez-Peña and La Pocha Nostra – ‘The New Barbarians – Designers primitives on the runaway, runaway’, 2007, Arnolfini, Bristol (UK)http://www.carlaesperanza.com/carlaesperanzaCollaborations.php

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Uncanny

http://www.annafox.co.uk/arc/12.html

anna fox, country girls, 1996 – 2001, Published in Lindaannaalison.First exhibited in Fair Play at Danielle Arnaud Gallery, London 2001

anna fox, country girls, 1996 – 2001, Published in Lindaannaalison.First exhibited in Fair Play at Danielle Arnaud Gallery, London 2001

anna fox, country girls, 1996 – 2001, Published in Lindaannaalison.First exhibited in Fair Play at Danielle Arnaud Gallery, London 2001

http://www.hmkv.de/dyn/e_program_exhibitions/detail.php?nr=2104

Aernout Mik, Netherlands, b. 1962,lives and works in Amsterdam, Stills from Glutinosity (2001) http://www.cca.rca.ac.uk/thismuchiscertain/exhib_mik.html

Aernout Mik Vacuum Room (2005), still from video installation

http://www.citizensandsubjects.nl/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=15&Itemid=30

Aernout Mik, Training ground, 2007

http://www.citizensandsubjects.nl/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=15&Itemid=30

Aernout Mik, Training ground, 2007

http://www.citizensandsubjects.nl/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=15&Itemid=30

Aernout Mik, Mock up, installation, Dutch Pavillion, Venice Biennale 2007

paula roush/msdm. Exercise sos:ok, performative installation, gallery p74, Ljubljana, 2004http://www.msdm.org.uk/projects/2004-sosok-exercise/

paula roush/msdm. Exercise sos:ok, performative installation, gallery p74, Ljubljana, 2004

paula roush/msdm. Exercise sos:ok, performative installation, gallery p74, Ljubljana, 2004

Jeff Wall, Dead Troops Talk (a vision after an ambush of a Red Army patrol, near Moqor, Afghanistan, winter 1986) 1992http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/exhibitions/jeffwall/rooms/room8.shtm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theatre_of_the_Oppressed

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theatre_of_the_Oppressed#Image_theatre

http://live-wirez.gu.edu.au/jea.papers/boland%20and%20cameron.rtf

Friday club, The Unvanquished City, London 2009

friday club• contemporary re-enactement for site-specific commission:

Bicentenary of the Napoleonic Invasions exhibition in Quartel of Serra do Pilar, Vila Nova de Gaia, 2009

• strategies:re-enactement, image theatre, newspaper theatre (crossed reading)

news sources: – Napoleonic invasions

For having resisted a military invasion in the 19th century by the Imperial Napoleonic Armies, Porto is now known as The Unvanquished City (A Cidade Invicta).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Porto– Contemporary student movement in france

http://www.citizenside.com/fr/photos/manifestations/2009-02-19/13577/l-universite-manifeste-a-paris-le-19-fevrier.html

– Sarkozy: The new Napoleon?http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/sarkozy-the-new-napoleon-1488656.html

Friday club, The Unvanquished City, London 2009, First exhibited in Bicentenary of the Napoleonic Invasions, Quartel of Serra do Pilar, Vila Nova de Gaia, 2009

Friday club, The Unvanquished City, London 2009

Friday club, The Unvanquished City, London 2009

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