Ivana Munoz
PERFORMANCE ART POST 6
Using the readings and videos below write a short description of performance art. Choose an example from the readings or the videos to help illustrate your answer. Add your quotes from the readings with your short responses to your post.
1. Performance art, an introduction by The Art Assignment and Dr. Virginia B. Spivey
https://smarthistory.org/performance-art-an-introduction/
2 quotes and a short response for each quote
“Historically, performance art has been a medium that challenges and violates borders between disciplines and genders, between private and public, and between everyday life and art, and that follows no rules”
Art Performance can be anything that flows with no rules, using a wide range of art techniques that are live action or even an bodily experience directed to the audience. Uses the influences of theatrical and music art performance to promote extremists beliefs, and it is often to deliberately be provocative for people to feel the same emotion. The artist purpose is to get an reaction and make people feel a certain emotion and for some, it symbolizes people’s historical background that share the same experience/emotion.
“Following World War II, performance emerged as a useful way for artists to explore philosophical and psychological questions about human existence.”
This is one good example of art performance that explored the philosophy and psychological questions of human existence. People that experienced the holocaust, art activists offered their body as a powerful tool/expressive form to express shared past experience. Their art performance symbolizes the experience of an real person who felt cold and hungry, fear and pain, excitement led to shame , showcasing the experience people faced during WW2.
2. Yoko Ono’s Art of Defiance | The New Yorker
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/06/20/yoko-onos-art-of-defiance
2 quotes and a short response for each quote
“She said the university made her feel “like a domesticated animal being fed information.” This proved to be a lifelong allergy to anything organized or institutional. “I don’t believe in collectivism in art nor in having one direction in anything,” she later wrote”
I agree, art is an free form, its not something that can be easily taught through textbook and it is not mean’t to be institutional.
“She grew up bilingual and was trained in two cultural traditions. She went to secondary school and college in Japan in a period of what has been called “horizontal Westernization,” when artistic and intellectual life was rapidly liberalized as the nation tried to exorcise its militarist and ultranationalist past.”
She was not like every student, she struggled in school when it came to art even though she is very experienced and lived two different lives. The author compares the short story “Of a Grapefruit in the World of Park” to Yoko Ono, due to her hybrid lifestyle. Used an a metaphor for her hybrid life, shared emotion she experienced, and symbolizes others( the youth )of what they do when they are the grapefruit and is left on picnic. The short story can express different perspectives and emotions, I believe nobody should be deemed as leftovers and it demonstrates the emotion of the artist.
3. Chapter 3 HISTORY, from The Art of Activism, Your All-Purpose Guide to Making the Impossible Possible by Steve Duncombe and Steve Lambert
2 quotes and a short response for each quote
“It’s a clichΓ© to say that we learn from history. But, like with many clichΓ©s, there’s a truth behind it.”
In Chapter 3 History, it focuses on the essential principles and the main themes of art activism that also center on the ideas of utopias. The author uses historical references and examples to set the idea of using art activist principles to create rather than to just observe the historical transitions. One of the examples mentioned is the part about the undocumented immigrants, symbolizing the effect of human migration. How the civil rights movement promoted freedom rides traveling through the U.S and the historical event mentioned was called the Undocubus and promoting the slogan “No Papers, No Fear). The purpose that the activists who come from any age and riding on this bus, to raise awareness for immigration reform and challenge the laws during that time. The activists then used their creative power by using the monarch butterfly imagery over their campaign and images of butterflies on people’s shirts when they went to events/protests. They used butterflies as a symbol to show awareness for immigrants who are undocumented and comparing them to the monarch butterfly. Beauty and freedom of these butterflies still intact after traveling miles each year and that symbolized these immigrants. It opened minds and hearts and this was one creative process by art activists that was effective and a tool for creative power.
“We learn from past successes and past failures, from people of the past whose struggles we identify with, and from those whose actions we oppose. And one lesson the past can teach us is that artistic activism is not anything new. Given the mass mediated, spectacle obsessed, hyper-aestheticized world of today, it makes sense that artistic forms of activism are currently being embraced by an increasing number of activists.”
Based off this quote it demonstrates the importance of blending art with activism. The power of using the creative process method to set time and place to create. Using persuasion with the use of social media or even in person protests, it emphasizes how effective art activism is an great tool to show awareness and meaning behind it. The role of using emotion and imagination to make society a better world, to explore the minds of people and see through open hearts and encouragement of others.
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