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In many movements throughout Europe and Asia, Performance Art became viewed as a genre that has become to tightly defined and rigid... Hence a new concept was needed to challenge the safe boxes of the art world...
I prefer to discus making actions, rather than performances, as it deconstructs the assumptive role of an "audience" and fundamentalizes the work in a way that we can discuss the performative aspect of all the work in ones life without limiting performative acts to performances...
To me, Live Art is the art of action. For me this includes all that I do, specifically gung fu and medicinal practice, movement, organizing, install-actions, cooking and presenting food, explorations in sound and image...
I established this tribe to see if anyone else in this US-based networking site is on the same page (or at least a similar tome).
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I prefer to discus making actions, rather than performances, as it deconstructs the assumptive role of an "audience" and fundamentalizes the work in a way that we can discuss the performative aspect of all the work in ones life without limiting performative acts to performances...
To me, Live Art is the art of action. For me this includes all that I do, specifically gung fu and medicinal practice, movement, organizing, install-actions, cooking and presenting food, explorations in sound and image...
I established this tribe to see if anyone else in this US-based networking site is on the same page (or at least a similar tome).
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Re: What is Live Art?
Fri, July 15, 2005 - 2:57 PMFound an interesting bit on Live Art (perhaps this will get some dicussion going):
Live Art represents essentially temporary works of art that span a range of disciplines and discourses involving, in some way, the body, space and time. To talk about Live Art is to talk about a plethora of approaches to questions of ‘liveness' and the embodied event, some of which do not yet even exist.
Live Art should not be understood as a description of an artform but as a strategy to ‘include' a diversity of practices and artists that might otherwise find themselves ‘excluded' from all kinds of policy and provision and all kinds of curatorial contexts and critical debates.
To use the term Live Art is not to attempt to define or fix a practice but a strategy to open up a landscape, to map new artistic geographies, to imagine new ways of working and at the same time, to create appropriate cultural, curatorial and critical frameworks around this eclectic and expansive body of practices and artists.
The term Live Art is therefore a framing device, a way of approaching, accommodating and empowering new ways of working that don't always fit within existing structures and the more rigid boxes and boundaries of received artistic disciplines.
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Re: What is Live Art?
Thu, November 17, 2005 - 3:05 AMWell what I would really like to see is the old elitist framework of 'high vs. low' art but with out the material connections. I think the frustration I experience is that the old paradigm doesn't fit the awakening found within experiential artwork.
I have been putting on artshows recently where the "artists" are just people who want to get together with the public and friends and show them the stuff they made or found. The real ART for me is the experience these people are having.
I am seeing building relationships as art. Rather than find a new label or catch phrase lets go back to the hierarchy of art to really shake the ivory tower of babel. That is the language the art historians speak. Artwork which transcends physicality or self and includes the fundamental act of making or creation is the highest form art can take.
Figurative work, the old high art ideal, is dead because it only creates a closed circuit of experience. A selfish masturbation of I and I echoing watching I, me within I does not involve growth or creating. Creating is the absolute highest ideal for art to strive toward that is why we love to or better, have to do it. For us to expect the viewer to be sated by just looking at a painting we made is ridiculous. Sooner rather then later they will catch on that we are holding back a key ingredient.
Burn it all down and kill the teachers and piss on the ashes and sculpt the fuck out of it. -
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Re: What is Live Art?
Sun, April 2, 2006 - 9:37 PMlately i've been working with and thinking about my UnPerformances a lot. i'm simultaneously embracing the Stuff that i do that is not for an audience, and allowing myself to explore documentation of that Stuff, those Acts, so that there is a residue beyond the personal residue and the energy and the birds and trees who generally witness this Stuff. i used to resist/hate documentation. now i am playing with it. video, photos, etc.
i've also been working with UnBooks or The Opposite of Publishing, in terms of my word-work. and a strange withdrawal from everything being collaborative and community-oriented. I seem to want small situations and miniscule points of temporal existence before ephemerality wipes everything out. it's... disorienting.
also doing more with the concept of taking all the Secret/Private acts and documenting them, coming out of the closet with them, calling them "art" instead of just "Stuff." secret narratives and threads of meaning follow me everywhere. what does it mean to unsecret them, even if i just show/tell 2-3 people about their existence? i write words in the mud, wipe them away, let the river finish them off. i used to do this; now i am taking a photo or a video as i do this. what am i doing? why does it need to be called "Art" by me right now? if a tree falls in the woods...
please ignore these stupid Un words, i have just come up with this right now as a way of describing it. but "Stuff" is a real word, to me. i don't want to talk about my Work and my Practice and my Art, i want to talk about Stuff. i think it's a much less stultifying/pretentious word.
anyway. i guess i just wanted to ask what y'all are up to these days. i am up to my eyeballs in "what is art?" and "what is live?" and "who cares anyway?" on the other hand, i've also started in an MFA program and suddenly have to think deep/intellectual hooey about these things, and be among people who largely speak the language of art/academia world. I don't speak that language (yet). it's a strange combination of things.
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Re: What is Live Art?
Fri, November 10, 2006 - 6:03 PMi'm very pleased to have found this tribe and see that people are active and passionate about conceptual or living art. conceptual performances and living life as art was something i discovered in graduate school as i refused to make images or tangible objects. i had many confrontations with instructors about the purpose of art and what art really is. i was told that i should leave the art department and enter humanities if i wanted to explore issues of behaviorism, capitalism, and oppressive states.
what really helped me through that time and further my own conviction in creating art as a way of life, despite the established institutions of art, academia, or gallery art, was a collection of books and artist doing similiar or noble things in my opinion. i just wanted to share some of them now for any individuals who feel alone in your creations or for those who just want a little a inspiration. Artists: Linda Montano, Adrian Piper, and Martha Rosler. Books: But Is It Art? The Spirit of Art as Activism edited by Nina Felshin, Radical Street Performance edited by Jan Cohen-Cruz, Has Modernism Failed? by Suzi Gablik, and Art in Everyday Life by Linda Montano (out of print but you can still find it in some libraries).
i wish everyone the best in their own pursuit of art in everyday life.
