Tag: performance

Joseph Beuys ::
from the “Filz-TV” / “Felt TV” project,

11:25’, b/w, sound,

1970

Beuys explained this cryptic work in terms of opposites. An actor sits
opposite the television. Its screen is doubled with a felt “anti-image”
that obstructs information. Finally, a second felt pad stands in for
artists. In the end, the television is abandoned: a transmitter without a
receiver. “The observer himself is very much as important as what comes
out of the box,” Beuys stated.
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source: Niklas Goldbach


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Craigie Horsfield :: Jacquard tapestry based on pictures made at the Moscow Circus
during the Barcelona Conversation (1996).
One of the tapestries especially made for the exhibition
at the Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen M HKA, Antwerp,

2010.

‘Horsfield’s work has taken on a significantly new dimension with the
jacquard tapestries, which the artist has been making over the last
three years. Made in close cooperation with Flanders Tapestries, these
large-scale weavings have come to be an important part of the
regeneration of the thinking of tapestry in contemporary art and of a
renaissance of Flemish tapestry at large.’

source of text and image: undo.net


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Rudolf
Schwarzkogler and Ludwig Hoffenreich ::

Untitled, from the performance “Hochzeit” (Marriage), 1965. Gelatin silver print. 

“Along with Günter Brus and Hermann Nitsch, Schwarzkogler was among the leading artists associated with Vienna Actionism, a movement centered around anarchic, often violent and sexually charged performances […]” / src of text and image: The Met

Valie Export* ::  Encirclement, from ‘Körperkonfigurationen’ (Body Configurations), 1972-76. In this series the artist positioned herself in several points of the city of Wien and mimed through her body the built environment immediately around. Her actions are the representation of her own states of mind, communicated by her postures and gestures. Through a performance that assumes the form of an apparently passive adaptation to the configuration of the city or the landscape, the artist reacts to the built environment in a completely different way than the one implied by the urban design.

/ source: socks studio

[*] aka Waltraud Lehner and  Waltraud Höllinger

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