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(hard cover) PERFORMANCE ART: MOTIVATIONS AND DIRECTIONS by Lee Wen Master of Arts Fine Arts 2006 LASALLE-SIA COLLEGE OF THE ARTS (blank page) PERFORMANCE ART: MOTIVATIONS AND DIRECTIONS by Lee Wen Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Degree Master of Arts (Fine Arts) LASALLE-SIA College of the Arts Faculty of Fine Arts Singapore May, 2006 ii Accepted by the Faculty of Fine Arts, LASALLE-SIA College of the Arts, In partial fulfillment of the requirements For the degree Master of Arts (Fine Arts). Vincent Leow Studio Supervisor Adeline Kueh Thesis Supervisor I certify that the thesis being submitted for examination is my own account of my own research, which has been conducted ethically. The data and the results presented are the genuine data and results actually obtained by me during the conduct of the research. Where I have drawn on the work, ideas and results of others this has been appropriately acknowledged in the thesis. The greater portion of the work described in the thesis has been undertaken subsequently to my registration for the degree for which I am submitting this document. Lee Wen In submitting this thesis to LASALLE-SIA College of the Arts, I understand that I am giving permission for it to be made available for use in accordance with the regulations and policies of the college. I also understand that the title and abstract will be published, and that a copy of the work may be made available and supplied to any bona fide library or research worker. This work is also subject to the college policy on intellectual property. -
September/October 2016 Volume 15, Number 5 Inside
SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2016 VOLUME 15, NUMBER 5 INSI DE Chengdu Performance Art, 2012–2016 Interview with Raqs Media Collective on the 2016 Shanghai Biennale Artist Features: Cui Xiuwen, Qu Fengguo, Ying Yefu, Zhou Yilun Buried Alive: Chapter 1 US$12.00 NT$350.00 PRINTED IN TAIWAN 6 VOLUME 15, NUMBER 5, SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2016 C ONT ENT S 23 2 Editor’s Note 4 Contributors 6 Chengdu Performance Art, 2012–2016 Sophia Kidd 23 Qu Fengguo: Temporal Configurations Julie Chun 36 36 Cui Xiuwen Patricia Eichenbaum Karetzky 48 Propositioning the World: Raqs Media Collective and the Shanghai Biennale Maya Kóvskaya 59 The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Danielle Shang 48 67 Art Labor and Ying Yefu: Between the Amateur and the Professional Jacob August Dreyer 72 Buried Alive: Chapter 1 (to be continued) Lu Huanzhi 91 Chinese Name Index 59 Cover: Zhang Yu, One Man's Walden Pond with Tire, 2014, 67 performance, one day, Lijiang. Courtesy of the artist. We thank JNBY Art Projects, Chen Ping, David Chau, Kevin Daniels, Qiqi Hong, Sabrina Xu, David Yue, Andy Sylvester, Farid Rohani, Ernest Lang, D3E Art Limited, Stephanie Holmquist, and Mark Allison for their generous contribution to the publication and distribution of Yishu. 1 Editor’s Note YISHU: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art PRESIDENT Katy Hsiu-chih Chien LEGAL COUNSEL Infoshare Tech Law Office, Mann C. C. Liu Performance art has a strong legacy in FOUNDING EDITOR Ken Lum southwest China, particularly in the city EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Keith Wallace MANAGING EDITOR Zheng Shengtian of Chengdu. Sophia Kidd, who previously EDITORS Julie Grundvig contributed two texts on performance art in this Kate Steinmann Chunyee Li region (Yishu 44, Yishu 55), updates us on an EDITORS (CHINESE VERSION) Yu Hsiao Hwei Chen Ping art medium that has shifted emphasis over the Guo Yanlong years but continues to maintain its presence CIRCULATION MANAGER Larisa Broyde WEB SITE EDITOR Chunyee Li and has been welcomed by a new generation ADVERTISING Sen Wong of artists. -
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Blood, Sweat and Tears. The Martyred Body in Chinese Performance Art Tania Becker When we speak of offending images in the context of contemporary Chinese art, some of us may remember articles that were published in , voices of outrage in reaction to Zhu Yu’s performance Eating People: Is it art when a man eats a dead baby? london — My God, what kind of society do we live in? A Chinese man eats a dead baby on TV and actually claims it’s art! The announcement alone unleashed one of Great Britain’s hottest debates on the freedom of the media, the press, and art: the British tv Channel wanted to broad- cast the documentary Beijing Swings, which includes photographs of Chinese artist Zhu Yu apparently eating a dead baby. According to Zhu, the corpse is from a miscarriage. In one of the photographs, he’s washing the body in a sink. Another photo shows him biting into a dismembered body part. Zhu has said that the pictures were taken during a perfor- mance titled »Eating Humans« in his house in Beijing. Yesterday, Zhu Yu claimed that as an artist, it’s his job to initiate debates over morality and art. His work involves exploring whether boundaries still exist. It does not, however, seem to bother anyone when this »artist« transgress- es these boundaries. Not even the guardians of the law — because de- spite the fact that artists using human body parts for their art can be sentenced to ten years in prison, nothing happened [...]. Tania Becker - 9783846763452 Downloaded from Brill.com09/28/2021 03:24:39AM via free access , After the images made the rounds in the Internet, the shocking act of consum- ing a fetus met with reactions worldwide. -
Switzerland's Performance Network
27 3 The Body as a Medium: Switzerland’s Performance Network It is meanwhile perfectly natural to team up the word “per- formance” with sports, banks, cars, high-energy soft drinks and the stock market.The inflationary use of the term is un- questionably a function of a society that is out for ever great- er productivity and growth in every sector. The entertainment and events sector uses performativity as a communicative factor: DJ, disco and pop culture all in- corporate performative elements, and even classical live-art (dance, music, theatre) brings us “performances”.These few examples are enough to demonstrate that, when it comes to the term “performance”, confusion reigns. How problematic the definition of “performance art” is, and how very differ- ently it can be applied, continues to be substantiated by the difficulties encountered by applicants for and recipients of funds from grant-making bodies, which usually have no specific division devoted to performance art.What is it that you do? Do you dance? Make theatre? Recite texts? Make music? What exactly is performance art in the context of the visual arts. The essential starting point of performance art is the body – as a home to the soul, a means of conveying and ex- pressing identity,and a personal or social construct.This dir- ect confrontation with the essential nature of the human being has evolved over the last forty years in accordance with the social trends and influences of the day.It has always been inherent to performance art to break taboos and challenge established norms. Performance art as social sculpture The present-day understanding of performance art goes back to the early work of the Futurists, Dadaists and Situ- ationists.The appearances of the internationally ramified, in- terdisciplinary Fluxus group in the Fifties had an enduring effect on the political actions and happenings that took place in the United States and Europe in the Sixties and Seventies. -
E.Jappe版action Art in Germany and Neighbouring
Action Art in Germany and Neighbouring Countries Elisabeth JAPPE First of all I will give you an idea of the context and the conditions in which Action Art started to evolve in the Germanic countries, in Germany, Austria, Holland and Switzerland. The end of the forties and the beginning of the fifties were marked by the disaster of the Second World War. Germany and Austria were licking their wounds after losing the war. Holland had just lost its colonies in Indonesia. Everything was to be rebuilt and this required an incredible amount of physical and mental discipline. It was not a time for new experiences. This attitude resulted in an extremely conservative spirit, even in the spiritual world. Many things were forgotten: Futurism, Surrealism, Dada. While John CAGE was crossing the conventional borders between disciplines, creating a kind of living Gesamtkunstwerk, with a group of musicians, painters and choreographers at the Black Mountain College, Yves KLEIN exposed Le Vide (The Void) in France and claimed "to be able to fly". Artists in Germany - who for the most part had resisted the laws of Nazi aesthetics - were rediscovering abstraction and the free gesture in informal painting. It was only at the beginning of the sixties that things began to move on. Initially, there was a general feeling of malaise. Young people, and also artists, no longer wanted to accept the constraints of a society with only one idea in its head: its consolidation according to the economic laws of the market (taken to the extreme). At the same time, they rejected the concept of education extolled by preceding generations, particularly in Austria where the reactionary Church exerted a strong influence. -
Nigel Rolfe -.: JHB Gallery
NIGEL ROLFE EDUCATION Farnham School of Art, 1969 - 1971 Bath Academy of Art, 1971 - 1974 ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS 2012 The Dark End of the Street: Works from Contested Ground, Green on Red Gallery, Dublin, Ireland 2010 European Dream, Green on Red Gallery, Dublin, Ireland, Green on Red Gallery, Dublin, Ireland Unseen, 10 Works 1982 and 2010, Burren College of Art Gallery, Ireland 2009 Notes on a Return – The Rope, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle, England Inversion, University College Dublin, Permanent Video Installation, Dublin, Ireland 2008 The Milk of Human Kindness / Video 2008 and selected videoworks 1983 - 2008 / Galerie Polaris, Paris, France Dust Breeding, Green on Red Gallery, Dublin, Ireland 2006 Momento Mori, West Cork Arts Centre, Skibbereen, Co. Cork Flowers-Momento Mori, Graphic Studio Gallery, Temple Bar, Dublin, Ireland 2005 The Book of Signs, Polaris Gallery, Paris, France Many Silver Things, Green on Red Gallery, Dublin, Ireland 2003 From Darkness to Annihilation, Crawford Municipal Art Gallery, Cork, Ireland 2002 Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea, Galerie Polaris, Paris, France Absence and Loss, Butler Gallery, Kilkenny, Ireland 2001 Performances, fotografias y videos Centro de Fotografia, Universidad de Salamanca, Spain Ghost, Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires, Argentina 2000 Life Without Life (installation), Royal Pump Rooms, The Parade, Learnington Spa, Warwickshire, England Corps, Galerie Polaris, Paris, France Introduction 1, Centre Culturel Condorcet, Chateau Chinon, France Lament, site specific installation on River Foyle, Derry, Northern Ireland The River The Path, Orchard Gallery, Derry, N. Ireland Joy, Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin, Ireland 1999 Life Without Life, Green on Red Gallery, Dublin, Ireland. -
A SMALL MAP PIECE of PERFORMANCE ART in CHINA a Study Room Guide by Adele Tan June 2008
A SMALL MAP PIECE OF PERFORMANCE ART IN CHINA A study room guide by Adele Tan June 2008 Let me begin with a fruit. The fruit in this instance is Grapefruit, Yoko Ono´s visionary 1964 book of art- making instructions for everyone. The Chinese word for fruit is guo (果)and like the English word it too means the result or reward of work or activity such as in the word jie guo ( 结果 ). So how does one begin to look at performance art in China in the selection of material available in the Live Art Development Agency library and make it a productive (fruitful) endeavour without taking the exploratory fun out of it? The history of performance art in China is still in the making and so we might do well not to make it too conclusive. With this in mind, we could perhaps play a version of Yoko Ono’s Map Piece from the summer of 1962… Draw an imaginary map. ●Carla Kirkwood, Chinese Performance Artists - Redrawing the Map of Chinese Culture, 2004, A0119 / P0519 ●Li Wei, Li Wei, 2005, P0191 ●Li Wei, Performance Video Works 2001–2004, D0113 ● Zhu Ming, 1994-2006 Art Works, 2007, P089 ●Zhu Ming, Performance Art Works, 1994-2004, 2004, D0265 ●Zhu Ming, Resume, Articles and Major Works – pictures, D0103 ●Zhu Ming, Unknown Area, July 2003, D0104 Kirkwood’s essay in TheatreForum provides an easy entry point into the performance art scene in China since its initial flourish in the late 1980s. She gives a concise history of its development over the past two decades but makes clear to us that from the get-go, performance art is to be taken in China as socio- politically engaged, critically antagonistic and at the forefront of experimental contemporary Chinese art by virtue of a habitual mode of operating in the margins. -
Performance Art Context R
Literature: Literature: (...continued) Literature: Literature: Literature: (... continued) Literature: Literature: (... continued) Literature: Kunstf. Bd.137 / Atlas der Künstlerreisen Literature: (...continued) Literature: (... continued) Richard Kostelnatz / The Theater of Crossings (catalogue) E. Jappe / Performance Ritual Prozeß Walking through society (yearbook) ! Judith Butler !! / Bodies That Matter Victoria Best & Peter Collier (Ed.) / article: Kultur als Handlung Kunstf. Bd.136 / Ästhetik des Reisens Butoh – Die Rebellion des Körpers PERFORMANCE ART CONTEXT R. Shusterman / Kunst leben – Die Ästhetik Mixed Means. An Introduction to Zeitspielräume. Performance Musik On Ritual (Performance Research) Eugenio Barber (anthropological view) Performative Acts and Gender Constitution Powerful Bodies – Performance in French Gertrude Koch Zeit – Die vierte Dimension in der (Kazuo Ohno, Carlotta Ikeda, Tatsumi des Pragmatismus Happenings, Kinetic Environments ... ! Ästhetik / Daniel Charles Richard Schechner / Future of Ritual Camille Camillieri (athropolog. view; (article 1988!) / Judith Butler Cultural Studies !! Mieke Bal (lecture) / Performance and Mary Ann Doane / Film and the bildenden Kunst Hijikata, Min Tanaka, Anzu Furukawa, Performative Approaches in Art and Science Using the Example of "Performance Art" R. Koberg / Die Kunst des Gehens Mitsutaka Ishi, Testuro Tamura, Musical Performance (book) Stan Godlovitch Kunstforum Bd. 34 / Plastik als important for Patrice Pavis) Performativity and Performance (book) ! Geoffrey Leech / Principles -
British Journal of Chinese Studies, Vol. 9 (2), July 2019 ISSN 2048-0601 © British Association for Chinese Studies
British Journal of Chinese Studies, Vol. 9 (2), July 2019 ISSN 2048-0601 © British Association for Chinese Studies Bad Citizens and Symbolic Subjects: Wang Jin, Zhou Tiehai, and the Art of (In)Civility Ros Holmes The University of Manchester Abstract This article illuminates the relationship between contemporary art and visual representations of civility in postsocialist China. Focusing on a close visual analysis of two works of art: Wang Jin’s Ice-96 Central Plain (1996) and Zhou Tiehai’s Fake Cover (1996), it examines how artists sought to reject the binary terms with which civility is commonly constructed: between model and shameful forms of deportment, good and bad, spiritual and material, civil and uncivil. Directly challenging the social and political role of civility as it is shaped, imagined and “imaged” in China, it explores how civility plays a pivotal role in making and unmaking citizens and argues that these artists offer a redefinition of civility not as a “discourse of lack” but as a surplus quality, an embodied excess, something which could be performed, parodied or publicly cast off. It therefore stands as an argument for considering the vexed and contested parameters of civility as artists sought to navigate the fraught terrain between ideology and market reforms, consumer citizenship and the exigencies of globalisation. Keywords: China, contemporary art, civility, citizenship, globalisation, public conduct, visibility. On January 28, 1996, a crowd began to gather at the heart of Erqi Square in downtown Zhengzhou. Braving sub-zero temperatures, they arrived cocooned in hats and scarves, down jackets and padded coats. The mood was one of jubilant expectation, heightened by the promise of a commercial spectacle whose much anticipated unveiling had been insistently announced in a flurry of flyers and promotional banners, monopolising the city’s billboards and airwaves, its television screens and newspaper columns in the preceding weeks. -
The Global Performance Art Network: How the Net Works
The Global Performance Art Network: How the Net Works Author Clunn, Rebecca Published 2014 Thesis Type Thesis (PhD Doctorate) School Griffith Business School DOI https://doi.org/10.25904/1912/2414 Copyright Statement The author owns the copyright in this thesis, unless stated otherwise. Downloaded from http://hdl.handle.net/10072/366836 Griffith Research Online https://research-repository.griffith.edu.au The Global Performance Art Network: How the Net Works Business School Department of Employment Relations & Human Resources Rebecca Clunn B. Music Performance – Queensland Conservatorium, Griffith University B. Creative Industries (2A Hons) – Queensland University of Technology Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements of the degree of Doctor of Philosophy August 2013 Abstract ABSTRACT As a performance artist, I have experienced a strong synergy connecting performance artists, the work they make, the network they create and inhabit, and the trust that binds them together. I wanted to discover how that network operated. Therefore, this doctoral research project focuses on the question, “What is the operation of the global performance art network? ” Network theory forms the overarching theoretical framework, with the additional concepts of trust, community, social capital, and performance art playing a key part in the analysis. With no known research into the global performance art network to date, the research will contribute to theory development and practical perspectives in relation to performance art. In addressing the research question, I acknowledge my personal ontology and self-interest in the subject matter. This duality of researcher / participant has allowed for a conscious ethnographic approach to this research. I have adopted a pragmatist paradigm in approaching this research question, which encourages a mixed methods strategy, combining quantitative and qualitative research methods, allowing for triangulation of data. -
The Challenge of Black Market International
The Challenge of Black Market International The National Review of Live Art 2007, Tramway, Glasgow From Wednesday 7th February to Sunday 11th February 2007, Black Market International (BMI) artists achieved a new challenge. Invited by Nikki Milican, Director of the National Review of Live Art in Glasgow, who put together 80 live art artists and where BMI would perform for five consecutive days. As such, over these five days, the various stakeholders (among whom we can quote guests such as Brian Connolly, Esther Ferrer, Jamie McMurry, Alexander Del Re, Monica Klinger, and regretting non-attendance of Norbert Klassen and Marco Teubner) would take over the vast space of Tramway 2. The programme also included an all-day workshop for twenty students, as well as to documentaries and solo readings. These five days managed to mobilise a great audience, mostly young, to follow the actions of Jürgen Fritz (D), Myriam Laplante (It/Qu), Alastair MacLennan (Northern Ireland), Helge Meyer (D), Boris Nieslony (D), Elvira Santamaria (Mx), Julie- Andrée Tremblay (Québec), Roi Vaara (Fi), Jacques Van Poppel (NL), Lee Wen (Si/J). ACT 1: Becoming Aware of the Territory On the first night, Black Market drags us into extremely poetic actions and proves to us the power of that open system. Little by little, they appropriate the space. The artists demonstrate how very little things end up being the central idea of an important work of art. They do not make art, they are art. Various objects lie in the massive room and accessories which will be used by performers are aligned on a big table. -
March/April 2015 Volume 14, Number 2 Inside
MARCH/A P R I L 2 0 1 5 VOLUM E 14, NUM BER 2 INSI DE Panel Discussion: Going to the Country Why Do We Still Need Museums? 10th Shanghai Biennale Artist Features: FX Harnoso, Tintin Wulia, Wanxin Zhang Exhibitions: San Francisco, Ithica, Manchester US$12.00 NT$350.00 P R INTED IN TAIWAN 6 VOLUME 14, NUMBER 2, MARCH/APRIL 2015 CONTENTS 2 Editor’s Note 37 4 Contributors 6 Going to the Country: Reconsidering Chinese Art Practices and Participation in the Rural Context Orianna Cacchione and Mia Yu 28 The Paradoxes of Autonomy: A Site of Critique Nikita Yingqian Cai 66 37 Why Do We Still Need Museums? An Interview with Hou Hanru, Artistic Director of MAXXI, National Museum of the 21st Century Arts, Rome Yu Hsiao Hwei 51 Pursuing Subjectivity: The 10th Shanghai Biennale—Social Factory Julie Chun 66 Expressions of Chinese Ethnicity and Cultural Heritage in Contemporary Indonesian 82 Art: FX Harsono and Tintin Wulia Lisa Catt 82 New Boundaries of Contemporary Art from Taiwan Yu-chieh Li 95 Against Rigour in Art: Landscape: the virtual, the actual, the possible? Brian Karl 106 106 Wanxin Zhang: Totem Erica Mohar 112 Relics, Memory, and Nostalgia in Harmonious Society Alexandra Lily Mitchell 121 Chinese Name Index 112 Cover: Huang Yongping, Bâton de Serpent, 2014, aluminum. Photo: Musacchio and Lanniello. Courtesy of the artist, Red Brick Art Museum, Beijing, and Fondazione MAXXI, Rome. We thank JNBY Art Projects, D3E Art Limited, Chen Ping, Mr. and Mrs. Eric Li, and Stephanie Holmquist and Mark Allison for their generous contribution to the publication and distribution of Yishu.