Defining Performativity: Four Perspectives

Speaking in this colloquium are:

Amelia Jones, professor and Pilkington Chair in the History of Art and Visual Studies, University of Manchester

Jose Luis Blondet, curator, Boston Center for the Arts

AA Bronson, artist

Matthew Nash, publisher Big, Red and Shiny

This event is free and open to the public. Enter the Museum via the Fenway entrance and proceed to the ticket counter to request your free pass to the colloquium on the day of the event.

When:
Friday, April 3, 2009
10:30 am - 04:00 pm

Where:
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Remis Auditorium 465 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA

Visiting Artist Lecture: AA Bronson

AA Bronson is an artist and healer. Bronson has written and published extensively, from his pornographic novel Lena (Grove Press, 1970), to his book on the AIDS crisis in Africa, Tick Tock (2006). From 1972 through 1989 he co-published FILE Magazine, General Idea's idiosyncratic simulacrum of LIFE Magazine. His memoir, Negative Thoughts, was published by the MCA Chicago in 2001.
AA Bronson's many awards include a Lifetime Achievement Award from the City of Toronto (1991), and the Governor-General's Award in the Visual and Media Arts (2002), Canada's highest award for cultural achievement. In 2008 he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada.
He enjoys his role as a mentor for a younger generation of artists, and is currently the director of Printed Matter Inc., the artists' bookstore.

Thursday, April 2, 2009
12:30 pm Room B209

Visiting Artist Lecture: Helge Meyer

Helge Meyer
Born in Woltwiesche, Germany, in 1969.

Formed the Performance Art Group System HM2T (with Marco Teubner) in 1998.
Since 2000 Meyer is associated with the international association Black Market International. He performed in festivals like Exit in Finland, in Italy, at Aozora Art in Japan, Open Art festival in China, PiPaf in the Philippines and intensively in Canada and the USA. Helge Meyer works parallel with Black Market, System HM2T and solo.
Meyer owns a diploma in Cultural Studies (University of Hildesheim, Germany). He is a writer for art magazines like Inter (Canada) and teaches performance art workshops and theoretical classes. As a researcher he is interested in questions of pain, duo work, cooperation and the history of images. In 2007 he finished a doctoral thesis about the image of pain in Performance Art (Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart, Germany).
Bio quoted from http://www.performance-art-research.de

Wednesday, April 1, 2009
12:15 pm Room B209

Neil Blender, et all, 1986

The first part is Neil Blender, a vert skater (and a legend). For some reason, he entered the street event at this contest and obviously did not give a crap. So awesome. Also: Christian Hosoi, Natas Kaupas (skating to the Peanuts cartoon theme), and a girl skating to Black Sabbath.

Performance art rules.

To be someone else - Identity and Performativity

Performance: Mathieu Briand and Prue Lang. Here is a performace in which the audience and the situation they create becomes the piece.
The content of this piece relates to the following online lecture at the Tate Modern- 'Identity and Performativity'. I really like the way Gill Perry is refering to work from different mediums to explain or justify her arguments. Enjoy.

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Video performance part 2

I ran into this video and there is something that i really like about it. It might be the simplicity, or the 'play' of magic or shamanism, but i think it is succesful in its simplicity. Körner Union has other media related pieces. I also enjoyed 'La ligne'; simple and fun.

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when the windex runs out...

In response to the post on Ann Hamilton and Marina Abramovic, who are both wonderful, it brought me back to a piece Abramovic had done in collaboration with Ulay called Imponderabilia that I was inspired by last semester. On Hamilton's work, it is very dense, which I enjoy. The desk and display of history in a somewhat confined space is interesting, as well as her approach to the given situation she was in. I want to look further into her work, as well as her tie with language.

AND here is the Abramovic piece. Hopefully it will spark some ideas! I feel it is simple and humorous, yet extremely effective. :)

Performing without an audience... for a while

Wanted to share this performance video, I found it pretty inspiring for the duration we have in class. I may fight for going first sometime.

Marina Abramovic is a performance artist from the 70's, shes still active and on wiki it said she describes herself as the "grandmother" of performance art, which I really love. Her work "explores the relationship between performer and audience, the limits of the body, and the possibilities of the mind."


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Matthew Barney

Maria Anna Tapeiner - The Body as a Matrix: Matthew Barney's Cremaster Cycle (2002)

Do you have any thoughts or comments about his work?