Performing the Body

Below are a few links to short videos of performance art to help you brainstorm ideas for your performance pieces.

John Cage
Gilbert & George
Laurie Anderson
Joan Jonas
The Art Guys
The Tiger Lillies
Jackson Pollock
Fischli & Weiss
Oskar Schlemmer

Please watch all of them and answer the following questions:

1.Which of the approaches to performance interested you and why (please be specific)?
2.How are the different performances structured (around time, use of materials, objects, people etc.)?
3.What is the role of the audience/viewer? Are they addressed? If so, how?

still life

Which 3 artists did you most respond to?

Of the 3, which did you personally connect to the most? In other words which moved you, or which personally touched you?

What is your idea for the assignment? Hopefully you spent time brainstorming.