Dragu at Douglas College via Professor Christine's Salon

image: square/carre # 974 form MARGINALIA ( correspondance/installation/performance collaboration) with St. John's, Newfoundland artist Pam Hall

LECTURE-SCREENING Mon April 2nd, 2007
Topics:

History(ies) of Performance Art

Performance Art Practices incl: Relational, Personnae, Community-Based, Durational, Site-Specific, Les Manouvres, & Aktions

Sharing the Canvas with Visual Art, Theatre, Spectacle, Events, Demonstrations., Parades, Rallies etc.

Whose Art History/Memories -- Authorship & The Academe/Culture(s) & Identity/Voice(s)

Class:

Please go to internet and look up Performance Artists incl. : Joseph Beuys, Vito Acconci, Chris Burden, Hannah Wilke, Eleanor Antin, Dennis Oppenheim, Karen Findley, Otto Muehl, Herman Nitsch, Rebecca Horn, Gilbert and George, Carolee Schneemann, Linda Montano, and Marina Abromovic.

HISTORY NOTES FROM WWW

Performance art of the 1970's was also influenced by the simplicity of minimal art. Often performance works involved few props or objects beyond the artists' own body and were written, directed and performed by one person. The fact that many performances were unrehearsed accounted for their impulsive and unrefined quality. Additionally, performance works were raw and often disturbing; incorporating social criticism, protest and shocking displays of violence and sexuality.

Nudity was a common element of 1970's performance works as both men and women shed their clothes to communicate ideas pertaining to sex, gender roles and most notably feminism. Like fighting fire with fire, performance works functioned as an affront to accepted values in art and society although audiences and critics were often offended (perhaps deliberately so) by this more confrontational and controversial aspect of performance works.

The radically innovative, experimental and often controversial methods by which performance artists expressed ideas is still viewed with a degree of skepticism, however, it has revolutionized traditional concepts of what art can and should be and continues to influence a broad scope of media and artistic disciplines.

Class:
Click on blue hot button below
FADO (Toronto)
or just type "performanceart" on your browser
and look up various artists including Sylvie Cotton, Constanza Camelo, Armand Vaillancourt, Jocelyn Robert, Rebecca Bellmore, etc.