Performance Art
Yoko Ono, “Cut Piece”
To accompany Alex's Patty Chang post from yesterday.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Jun 21, 2021 -
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Category: Fashion, Performance Art, 1960s
The art of Patty Chang
A few highlights from Patty Chang's career as a performance artist:- Eating raw onions with her parents
- Having an eel crawl inside her shirt
- Cutting through her bra (stuffed with melons) while ritualistically discussing her aunt's death
- shaving her pubic hair with seltzer water
- creating urinary devices with plastic bottles while traveling across an aqueduct in China
- having women pump their breast milk while reading lists of worries submitted by anonymous people in Hong Kong and the U.S.
It seems that Chang is deliberately trying to be weird. She says, "Humor is a strategy that makes people aware and also uncomfortable... There are a lot of strange things that we don’t pay attention to, but I try to extract them."
More info: artnet
Posted By: Alex - Sun Jun 20, 2021 -
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Category: Performance Art
Lys Chelys, French Female Fakir
Modern performers like David Blaine, who entomb themselves in glass boxes, are carrying on an old tradition, as seen below in the first video with Lys Chelys.The still photo shows her exiting her "sarcophage" after 57 days without eating.
After her items, we have a full movie utilizing the same theme.
Photo source.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Mar 05, 2021 -
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Category: Food, Magic and Illusions and Sleight of Hand, Performance Art, 1950s, Europe, United Kingdom
Finding a needle in a haystack
ARTnews reports that the artist Sven Sachsalber recently died at the young age of 33. Sachsalber's most famous work, which Chuck posted about in 2014, was when he spent two days searching for, and eventually finding, a needle hidden in a haystack.
Some of Sachsalber's other works (or 'performances') included:
- Completing, with his father, a 13,200-piece puzzle of Michelangelo's Creation of Adam
- Eating a poisonous mushroom
- Spending 24 hours in a room with a cow
For whatever it's worth, Sachsalber wasn't the first person to try and find a needle in a haystack. Legendary publicist Jim Moran did the exact same stunt back in 1939.
Popular Science - July 1939
Note: despite what the caption says, Moran did find the needle.
He then sent it to the Smithsonian.
Posted By: Alex - Tue Dec 22, 2020 -
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Category: Publicity Stunts, Homages, Pastiches, Tributes and Borrowings, Performance Art, Obituaries
The Rain
Is that actually rain, or is someone spraying him with a hose?
Posted By: Alex - Mon Dec 21, 2020 -
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Category: Performance Art, Absurdism and Dadaism, Writers, 1960s
An Intentional Cannibal
There's an old urban legend, which folklorist Jan Harold Brunvand refers to as 'The Accidental Cannibals,' about people who accidentally eat the cremated remains of a loved one:A recent version of the legend describes the cremains of a relative shipped home from Australia to England and mixed there into the Christmas pudding. Half the pudding has been consumed by the time the letter of explanation anives.
In a case of urban-legend-becomes-real-life, performance artist Eva Margarita has announced that she'll be mixing the cremated remains of her father into three different entrees and then eating them. She'll be doing this "to not only honor his spirit but to show how communities pass on knowledge through a practice in eating and conjuring with one another."
Her performance will be broadcast live on the Internet. It's happening today (Sep 23, 2020), from 8 AM to 8 PM (eastern time).
In an interview on timeout.com, Margarita offers some details about how she'll prepare her father's cremains:
Thanks to Gerald Sacks!
Posted By: Alex - Wed Sep 23, 2020 -
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Category: Cannibalism, Food, Performance Art
Sybil Brintrup, RIP
Alas, the world will get no more performances like this one.Obit in Spanish.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Aug 14, 2020 -
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Category: Art, Avant Garde, Performance Art, Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art
Lunar Striptease
Edited to stop short of bare bosoms.
Posted By: Paul - Fri May 22, 2020 -
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Category: Aliens, Body, Entertainment, Spaceflight, Astronautics, and Astronomy, Performance Art
Ulay & Abramovic
Alas, Ulay is no more.Marina is still with us.
Enjoy 2.5 hours of their art.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Mar 05, 2020 -
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Category: Art, Avant Garde, Performance Art, Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Body, Entertainment, Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Bohemians, Beatniks, Hippies and Slackers
Capitalist Man
The New York Post has an interview with the performance artist who calls himself "Capitalist Man." His gimmick is that he carries around a see-through briefcase, which he claims contains $500,000 in hundred-dollar bills, and he's trying to find someone willing to buy it for a million dollars.The price tag, he says, is "$500,000 for the cash, $500,000 for the concept." Any interested buyer gets to examine the bills before purchase.
Capitalist Man says that if someone does buy his briefcase full of money, his profit will go entirely to charity. But so far, he has no takers.
Image source: Facebook
Posted By: Alex - Thu Jan 16, 2020 -
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Category: Money, Performance Art
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