Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Art History

Performance art is art where the actions of an individual or a group at a particular place and in a particular time, constitute the work. It can happen anywhere, at any time, or for any length of time. Performance art can be any situation that involves four basic elements: time, space, the performer's body and a relationship between performer and audience.

Performance art is a term usually reserved to refer to a kind of usually avant-garde or conceptual art which grew out of the visual arts.

Performance art, as the term is usually understood, began to be identified in the 1960s with the work of artists such as Allan Kaprow, Youri Messen-Jaschin who coined the term happenings, Vito Acconci, Hermann Nitsch and Joseph Beuys. Western cultural theorists often trace performance art activity back to the beginning of the 20th century. Dada for example, provided a significant progenitor with the unconventional performances of poetry, often at the Cabaret Voltaire, by the likes of Richard Huelsenbeck and Tristan Tzara. However, there are accounts of Renaissance artists putting on public performances that could be said to be early ancestors to modern performance art. Some performance artists point to other traditions, ranging from tribal ritual.

Performance art genres include body art, fluxus, action poetry, and intermedia. Some artists, e.g. the Viennese Actionists and neo-Dadaists , prefer to use the terms live art , action art, body art performance, intervention or manoeuvre to describe their activities.

Performance artists include:

* Alan Abel
* Marina Abramovic
* Vito Acconci
* GG Allin
* Laurie Anderson
* Joseph Beuys
* Mark Bloch
* George Brecht
* Alexander Brener
* Stuart Brisley
* Robert Delford Brown
* Günther Brus
* Chris Burden
* (early period) Cabaret Voltaire
* COUM Transmissions (later Throbbing Gristle)
* Danny Devos
* EXIT (members Penny Rimbaud and Gee Vaucher later formed Crass)
* Diamanda Galás
* Gilbert and George
* Jack Goldstein
* Youri Messen-Jaschin
* Deej Fabyc
* Judas 2 (formed by Pete Wright, formerly of Crass)
* Istvan Kantor / Monty Cantsin
* Allan Kaprow
* Wladyslaw Kazmierczak
* Gordon Matta-Clark
* Jamie McMurry
* Charlotte Moorman
* Otto Muehl
* Hermann Nitsch
* Yoko Ono
* Dennis Oppenheim
* Nam June Paik
* Richard Piegza
* Carolee Schneemann
* David Sherry
* Joey Skaggs
* Litsa Spathi
* SARROGIT
* Survival Research Laboratories
* Wolf Vostell
* Welfare State Theatre Group

External Links

Fluxus Heidelberg
Live Action
infraction
Long'action
Texas Jones Act
Texas Jones Act Counter
Wikipedia

More than 850 famous foreigners in Switzerland

another performance by Youri Messen-Jaschin

Body art painting performance

Body art performance

Street and stage performance's :

1957 CRUCIFIX ORGY
Hôtel Central Lausanne (Philip Morris sponsor)
1958 WEISS ODER VIELHEIT NICHT WEISS
Leopoldstrasse, Munich
1958 SCHWARZ ODER VIELHEIT NICHT SCHWARZ
Leopoldstrasse, Munich
1959 AQUATISCHE BALLON
Amsterdam, Hollande (on the canals of Amsterdam)
1959 NEEMT U - NEEM ME
Amsterdam
1959 POËZIE DIVERSITEIT
Car Daaf company Amsterdam
1959 SAVON NOIR
Ecole Nationale Supérieur des Beaux-arts, Paris
1964 MOUSSE ROUGE
Expo 64, Lausanne
1964 HAPPENING & CRASH64
for EPFL, Penthaz (sponsor Philip Morris)
1964 CAKE BOUM
Ecole des Beaux Arts, Lausanne
1965 PRESSE RUSSE
Ecole des Beaux Arts, Lausanne
1965 TAKE CARE
University Geneva
1965 2 ENTRÉES
Geneva
1968 PENETRATION
Engineering University Geneva
1968 TROLL'S
Kunsthalle, Göteborg
1968 CODOM
Kunsthalle, Göteborg
1969 PING PONG
Milles plats, Göteborg
1969 FLYGBLADT
over the city Göteborg
1971 SCHAUMBED
Freiburg in Breisgau
1972 LUST
Hamburg
1972 NIMM MICH - DICH
Hamburg
1972 WASSERBALLON
Göteborg(in the port Göteborg)
1973 PSCICOMUSICOCINE
Aktiongalerie 1, Bern
1974 POLAROIDALE
Aktiongalerie 2, Bern
1974 SCHAUM AM METER
Rathausgasse, Bern
1975 LUFT UND WASSERLUFT
Rathausgasse, Bern
1975 MUSEUM IN DEINEM GESICHT
Rathausgasse, Bern
1975 HUMORISTIscher Kopfsprung
Bäreplatz, Bern
1976 RASEN SCHNEIDER
Rathausplatz, Bern
1976 BERNERQUÄLWASSER
Rathausplatz, Bern
1977 FLYING OBJEKT
Berne
1977 SEHR SELTSAMER TIERE
Aare, Bern
1977 DU BIST
Aktiongalerie 1, Bern
1979 WARTEN 1
Rathausplatz, Bern
1980 DIE GLOCKE
Rathausplatz, Bern
1980 WARTEN 2
Freiburgstrasse, Freiburg in Breisgau
1980 FLIEGEN
Rathausplatz, Bern
1981 ELEPHANT UND EIN SCHLUCK BIER
Rathausplatz, Bern
1981 LIPPEN UND KUSSE
Rathausplatz, Bern
1981 FLIEGENDE ICE CREAM
Collaboration with Verbandsmolkerei Ostermundigen & Heliswiss Bern - Burgdorf
1981 SWEET TANGOS
Collaboration with Jowas Zollikofen - Burgdorf
1981 SCHLAFEN MIT EVA
Loeb, Bern
1981 ODYSSEE FLUORESZIEREND
Aare, Thoune to Bienne
1982 SOPA DE AGUA
Buenos-Aires
1982 MURO DE POESÍA DEL BAÑO
Buenos-Aires
1983 PSICOTRÓNICO
Fundacion Mendoza Caracas
1983 LACAMERATA
Auditorium Interalumina Ciudad Guayana
1984 LA TORTO QUE CAMINA
Sala de Conciertos Atheneo de Caracas - Caracas
1984 EMBRYO
Teatro Anna Julia Rojas Atheneo de Caracas
1987 FIAT DANCE
Collaboration avec Garage Royal Lausanne & Monde du Cirque Lausanne 87 Lausanne
2001 MARRY FLY
Montreux Jazz Festival
2000 SMART METAMORPHOSE
Festival de la Cité Lausanne
2004 GENEVA LAKE - LOCH NESS
Montreux Jazz Festival
2005 DRAGON
Montreux Jazz Festival
2005 DRAGON BOAT FLIE
Geneva


Art Performance with company manager

ART & MUSIC

1975 Rathausgasse, Bern
1979 Magasin Ciolina, Bern
1982 Fundacion Mendoza, Caracas
1998 Université d'été, Migros Vaud/Migros Ecole club Vevey
1998 Management seminary Migros Vaud/Migros Ecole club Lausanne
1998 «Ganzheitliches Lernen» Cadres supérieurs du commerce du détails,
au niveau européen Migros Vaud/Ecole Club Lausanne

Body performance MAD Lausanne

Performance at the Jet d'eau / Water jet of Geneva 2005



Collaboration : Air Glacier Switzerland

Geneva (2005) (Water Jet Geneva / Jet d'eau de Genève)



Collaboration : Air Glacier Switzerland
© Photography by Le Matin Sebastien Feval

Geneva (2005) (Water Jet Geneva / Jet d'eau de Genève)




Collaboration : Air Glacier Switzerland
© Photography by Le Matin Sebastien Feval

Geneva (2005) (Water Jet Geneva / Jet d'eau de Genève)



Collaboration : Air Glacier Switzerland
© Photography by Le Matin Sebastien Feval

Geneva (2005) (Water Jet Geneva / Jet d'eau de Genève)




Collaboration : Air Glacier Switzerland
© Photography by Le Matin Sebastien Feval

Performance at the Montreux Jazz Festival 2005

Montreux Jazz Festival (2005)



60 meter length, 5 meter diameter
Collaboration Philippe Bernard (parapentist)
City of Montreux

Montreux Jazz Festival (2005)



60 meter length, 5 meter diameter
Collaboration Philippe Bernard (parapentist)
City of Montreux

Montreux Jazz Festival (2005)



60 meter length, 5 meter diameter
Collaboration Philippe Bernard (parapentist)
City of Montreux

Montreux Jazz Festival (2005)



60 meter length, 5 meter diameter
Collaboration Philippe Bernard (parapentist)
City of Montreux

Montreux Jazz Festival (2005)



60 meter length, 5 meter diameter
Collaboration Philippe Bernard (parapentist)
City of Montreux

Montreux Jazz Festival (2005)



60 meter length, 5 meter diameter
Collaboration Philippe Bernard (parapentist)
City of Montreux

Montreux Jazz Festival (2005)



Logistics, communication, concept and organization
60 meter length, 5 meter diameter
Collaboration Philippe Bernard (parapentist)
City of Montreux

Der Bund - Record in the Guiness Book - The biggest Ice Cream in the World!

Bravo, Bern !

Selection Reader's Digest N°. 6 June 1985

Record in the Guiness Book - The biggest Ice Cream in the World!


Burgdorf Switzerland (1981) - The biggest Ice cream in the World
Book :
Guiness book record & Berner Rekorde und Superlative.
Collaboration : Verbandsmolkerei Ostermundigen and Helliswiss.

Burgdorf - Switzerland



Book :
Guiness book record & Berner Rekorde und Superlative.

Collaboration Verbandsmolkerei Ostermundigen and Helliswiss.

Burgdorf Switzerland (1981) - The biggest Ice cream in the World



Book :
Guiness book record & Berner Rekorde und Superlative.

Collaboration Verbandsmolkerei Ostermundigen and Helliswiss.

Ateneo de Caracas


Programa
Ateneo de Caracas
Ana Julia Rojas
4.5.1984

LA TORTA QUE CAMINA - Ateneo de Caracas



El Universal Caracas 13.4.1984
Ateneo de Caracas

LA TORTA QUE CAMINA - Ateneo de Caracas



El Nacional Caracas 13.4.1984
Ateneo de Caracas

LA TORTA QUE CAMINA - Ateneo de Caracas


El Mundo Caracas
18.4.1984
Ateneo de Caracas

LA TORTA QUE CAMINA - Ateneo de Caracas


Encuentro con la danza Ateneo de Caracas 1984
El Diario de Caracas 12.4.1984
Directing & Story script

Sala Mendoza Caracas - PSICOTRÓNICO


Cabala 4.3.1984
Cabala - Venezuela

Sala Mendoza Caracas - PSICOTRÓNICO


Cabala 4.3.1984
Cabala - Venezuela

Sala Mendoza Caracas - PSICOTRÓNICO


Cabala 4.3.1984
Cabala - Venezuela

Sala Mendoza Caracas - PSICOTRÓNICO


Cabala 4.3.1984
Cabala - Venezuela

Sala Mendoza Caracas - PSICOTRÓNICO





El Nacional Caracas 4.10.1983

Sala Mendoza Caracas - PSICOTRÓNICO



El Universal 4.10.1983

Sala Mendoza Caracas - PSICOTRÓNICO






Yonekura Industrial Sponsor

Sala Mendoza Caracas






Yonekura Industrial Sponsor

Atheneo de Caracas - Embryo (1984)






News Paper El Diario de Caracas 4.5.1984
Theatrer << EMBRYO >>
author & Direction by Youri Messen-Jaschin
Atheneo de Caracas (1984)

El Nacional 2.5.1984




News Paper El Nacional Caracas
Theatrer << EMBRYO >>
author & Direction by Youri Messen-Jaschin
Atheneo de Caracas (1984)

EMBRYO (1984)


Theatrer << EMBRYO >>
author & Direction by Youri Messen-Jaschin
Atheneo de Caracas (1984)

EMBRYO (1984)




Theatrer << EMBRYO >>
author & Direction by Youri Messen-Jaschin
Atheneo de Caracas (1984)

EL Universal 4.5.1984








Theatrer << EMBRYO >>
author & Direction by Youri Messen-Jaschin
Atheneo de Caracas (1984)