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lots of snippets available out there of different performance artist actually
performing service include suggested
now chris burden
outdone
gilbert and george
and other performance artists including him
some fluxes people
that i would like to see shall performance art and concepts you know
videos and things like that that i want you see because we are
we're and
talking about a whole different
media are all different
realm of art making that isn't captured so well placed
five films tools so
please take some time to go through and watch the and performance pieces that
i've got posted this weekend the conceptual films that i've got posted
this week in addition to lecture and uh... i'll try to mention
as we're going to the lecture
what things that have to look for in these videos okay so
medium that we're talking about this week
is what we've seen kind of indecent four main earlier lectures and that is there
a medium of
performance
where instead of having any
out to accept the artist
creates it's the actual activity of the artists that becomes the work of art
if you think back to decline for example in his living terrorism
excuse me pieces where he would direct bottles to paint
that was as much a part outbreak upbeat
products that he was making has the finished peace
also appear on and so i mean that the active apparent movement in his living
starters where he would sign people break
you're kind of moving away from the idea of a fixed stable object the prince
person creates and moving toward the idea that experience or a damn
a cape
moment in time created by the artists that you have to experience it has even
goes farther back if you think back to the uh...
pete i should have made a right after world war two and japan rehab
sash
to budget it hurt
you know i forget kit period so it's a wrestling with the mud
or artwork on the breaking through many screens of paper
we've seen
through this idea that the artist ads edit
uh... body creates a
creates a piece in time time with a piece
in different places before
it really becomes a part dot the mainstream art world and i mean this
continues to this day performance is an important medium of contemporary art
that but it really gets a foothold in the nineteen sixties
so that's why we're going to look at
today and next time
probably the first piece through that is classified now historically as
performance art is this piece
that was created by alan capper opened was a teacher at rockers
uh... nl chaparro
did this
this piece here called eighteen happening since its parts any gallery in
new york in nineteen fifty-nine
he was
eight
et
that he you just
died last year actually believe
he was very interested in this idea that you can at the race the battery between
art and life ambition start to sound familiar right this is something that
uh... robert rosenberg said about his combine paintings this is something that
is continuing to be
and interest of the hardest what is the difference between arcane existence
capro later on in his career but actually spend a week
working as a assistant to the gallery owner in new york any call that a
performance piece that basically he went around did
the stuff that you're supposed to have your gallery assistant you make
photocopies
bring copy to the owner of the gallery stuff like that howden
it has so you noted
blurring the boundary between art like two point we couldn't see it anymore
anyway let's later on here alan capper as eighteen happenings in six parts
wallace eight time limited series of evening c_n_n_'s gallery
he had divided up by these
flimsy almost transparent screens that are covered with sheets of plastic
in each have a different parts out the gallery the six parts of the gallery
there would be some different activity going on as you walked through the
galleries so
in one room he had a friend of his juggling oranges
and other cat a friend
saddle blowing out of violent
and he ever had this idea that
bit these unique experimenter experiences orchestrated by artist were
act different kind of
uh... a different kind of part product
so
kappa roseanne ta he realized that very important
beginning point in his word happening actually took hold in the nineteen
sixties
and became a standard part of
uh...
artistic that artist again a part of the nineteen sixties happening is that kind
of performance piece that
is a one-off
and it can be anywhere it can be in a gallery it can be
outside of the gallery can be a products please can be wherever you want to be
usually
these are one-time only things that they would be sort of
meant to disrupt
you know every day at jack that and call it ends to day them sort of
creation of of art
uh... let's see to have unexpected interactions
happenings
performance pieces
are also influenced by
that work at the composer john cage who he should be watching videos him last
weekend this week john cage i've mentioned before
isn't isn't the center of
this kind of creative movement and it's happening in the fifties and sixties he
teaches persevere
black man college in north carolina
he moves to the new school in new york city
where he gets
lessons in add classes in experimental composition with to which many artists
actually said
uh... attended and been hit his ideas become important for them
i think i mentioned before john cage is at peace
of music on four minutes and thirty three seconds where
uh... heat
actually wrote a piece of music or a pianist comes and sits down at a piano
opens the score
and it's it's therefore bedtime at four minutes and thirty three seconds
during that time
the audience
basically generates the piece of music as the air
listening starting to wonder what the hell's going on here
starting to shuffle through their programs looking for a program note
about this
performance
uh... coffee maybe our graphic caf drops murmuring to one another
the stance generated by the audience in this kind of peer reproducible one time
only offense
takes it out of your normal expectations for what you would expect to happen
intent concert hall
uh... that's and music
made by chance
that was the essence of john cages
sort of sense of um... how to compose
in that is
at very influential idea not just in music but also for performance artist
and for artists who are trying to think of
new ways to get there
sickening ways to work
and here are just let's see
he elbow and better capra surfaces in front on alan capro he was
dangerously junkie instead of its their teasing indicate you can see
you can see it and for that day u_n_ when you are we going to bed
the links for this week there's all these utube videos to watch of him
on
here and just gonna read you a quote from alan capro
and let me show you another view of eighteen happenings in six parts is is
if you have another room where other parts of the accident going on
so capro
describe these early earlier if experiments he did with this in late
nineteen fifty eight as action collages so here's how you can morph into that
happens
to the actions logs
collages then keep became bigger
and introduced flashing lights in
thicker concept matter
these parts projected further and further from the wall into the room and
included more and more
article elements sounds of bringing buzzers bells toys et cetera until a had
accumulated nearly all the sensory elevates i would support what they read
the following the years
anyways dot every visitor to the environment was a part of it
matter when i get
inside gave him opportunities like moving something turning switches on
just a few things increasingly during nineteen fifty seven fifty eight this
suggested a more scored responsibility for the bizarre
visitor out for him or not to do
until they developed happening the integration of all elements environment
constructed sections time space and people
has been mining technical problem ever since
celo here he's got a total environment in which they you were is an important
piece of the proposition
randomness and she adds and
kind of blurring you're raising the boundary between the artist s creator in
the viewer as consumer uh... is all going on here
this kind of work
so that's alan capper wrote in his
there
important sort of early ad for a city performance artwork happens
that the and other important group
actually that will influence the
development of this kind of of artistic expression is a group notice fluxes in
here i just got a list of important names of people who are associated with
the fluxes movement
most primarily george mentioned is who was
lithuanian immigrants in the united states and was actually a wealthy
property owner he owned a lot of rental properties in new york city and he
became really interested in patronizing the arts in sponsoring artists and heat
issued a manifesto about
what he wanted fluxes or his kind of uh...
artistic
in image zero artistic ambition to include
and ed for industry
fluxes glad he did all kinds of
performance
conceptual
uh...
grass esp oriented works of art
throughout the nineteen sixties and seventies in fact
there are still artists who are
continue to consider themselves associated with fluxes and you can go on
line on the web and see lots of them
interest except about fox is still today
for our purposes that we're talking about the nineteen sixties and so i want
to talk about some of the
early important artists who were associated with fluxes
out her names you should know
nineteen pike vietnamese immigrants who is a
there wasn't a because we last year
nineteen height was a big yellow artists so we'll talk about him he's associated
with boxes
seeking comfort botha
she was at mary to nineteen hike and sees also asserted video conceptual
performance artist
yoko ono you may be familiar with her as the wife of job planning at the beatles
she was also eight
fluxes arts
kubota antonette were both
women who had come from japan which again interesting because remember what
had gone on in the fifties in japan with the creation of
the high street so there's a kind of here and it's going on here
that's uh... porting into foxes
but see joseph boys
he was a german man who am i am
them
came to the u_s_ in into actually had been in there and german army during
world war two but was very traumatized by that it was kind of antiwar after
world war two
very much uh... another
associate bells fluxes
of alan capper who we just looked at became associated with what's this
because he had george mitchell is shared a lot of sort of
similar ideas about what art is supposed to be and uh... john cage also became
associated with fluxes because again her ideas without it
sympatico
i'm just gonna read you a lot of mitzi misses variations on the fluxes
manifesto
and here it is that gathers his scenes emerging here that you're going to
continue to hear the contemporary art period
fluxes goals our social dot that's that
they are set up like this
step-by-step elimination of the fine arts music drama poetry painting
sculpture etcetera etcetera
this moderates the desire to direct wasted material and human capabilities
towards constructive goals such as the applied arts industrial design
journalism architecture engineering graphic
and have a graphic arts printing etcetera which are all areas they are
closely related to the fine arts and hopper the artist better career
opportunities
one of the interesting things here is this idea of
uh... getting rid of the fine arts at making art that
everybody can
be apartheid
uh... social goals not aesthetic goals
here is something that's a little bit of an act of stopped and said
it's the concept not the rat net that is important
okay so let's see the first
fluxes manifesto
uh... manifestation was a publication complexes
that mitch eunice made
it grew out of musical events
of people centered around john cage
and that in fact many of the people who became a state of flux is had attended
john cage is forcing experimental composition useful
in nineteen fifty-eight including
nineteen hike
an alan capper had both tapings specifics perimental um...
but see in nineteen sixty three
publish another fluxes manifesto
which declared war on quoting
the world of course while sickness intellectual professional and
commercialized culture
which is really saw fluxes is being
three out those confines and able to work in anyway
not really worrying about tradition or uh... art criticism of things like that
here are other examples of let's eat manifestos and added onto overtime by
george
bitchiness and you can see
here purge a lot of your optimism
uh...
purge the world of dead art imitation artificial heart abstract art
illusionist occurred mathematical art
well it's almost everything that's come before right
so here
they're starting weight all the media
that come from the past
and get into a living art anti hardened on art reality
for our people not only predicts dilettante in professional
and eight you have to think to remember
we're talking about the nineteen sixties been area in which this kind of
rebelling against so-called vers bottom mainstream culture has become fairly
widespread
you have the explosion of new forms of rock and roll you capital youth culture
and they hit the movement in
discounted anti-establishment
at rating it from everything from stuff it's more sorted team like woodstock to
stuff it was more radical and more political
the ed
creation of sort of
these militant student groups that were responsible for a couple of them
bombings and them
of banks and things like that so you've got a reams out uh... arranges kind of
anti personal activity aunt this seems to be
wayy organ units of culture that at the time is right for this kind of entire
establishment rebellious spent
means so extreme uh... ard
this also is the timing in which
not only is there a youth culture that's emerging in really rejecting
the whole
newsyrian a sense of tradition and history in all of that
within the realm of
traditional fine art media but there's also h
movement amani
academics especially in france there's a whole new kind of
approach to analyzing language and culture and history
that is
questioning the way that people have thought about the past
before
i a m
we'll talk probably a little bit more about this but i mean there's this kind
of rejection of the whole idea of
great people writing history you know that everything is that his trees just a
series of biographies of great man
ants this culpa greatly inferior history nineteen sixties there is a
move towards
rejecting that it's a no really his three kids
created by
the efforts of regular people and
there
you know whether their soldiers are farmers and what happened
at real turned away from this idea
great individual euros which is the in again in academics who see it sort of is
that
is that that rewriting of history rethinking its how-to french history
in art you see it as a rejection of the idea of an artist is a hero
and the idea of traditional media and moving towards is more integration of
art and life that is so so much of him
fluxes
his idea of everybody being able to make art this is a performance per se but
this is for you know
at the heart of the flux is that uh... that
this was uh...
george winston is put together a so-called flux kids that was filled with
no tiny little up
stance
uh... all sorts of materials that you could play with and put together to make
make era of working arts
also spores four that is you know
etc directions for happy st events
little snippets of film
journals that you could right and
uh... flux hit
be had you could keep it by going through the mail from georgia to miss
for abruptly
modest obviously but just a single a single event or a single kind of little
piece of the kit you could buy one for you
one in five u_s_ dollars
flux kits
were uh...
at complete five skip itself year
was about five hundred bucks
you about twenty-five objects in the nineteen sixty
five addition of a flat skit
to about forty in nineteen sixty six
since the all kind of like art in approx do it yourself
said through the mail icid mention that another thing that fluxes
released beverage mates is the idea of postcard art a male art that is art that
is specifically
deciding this century that mailto other artists and
becomes a kind of
performance integration of everyday life into the realm of of
mail are continues to be his daughter that watson's associated artists work
what skip by the way was influenced unsurprisingly by
myself the shop
marcel decided had done the similar kind of thing in the nineteen thirties where
he created these
at basically
paintball a platform for these that means that box in a suitcase
but here
he's got miniature replica additions of some of his most famous works of art
including a very close above it there the yet found in from nineteen seventeen
uh...
and his brides best repaired by the bachelors even the large class which
remember this is an influence on time
jasper johns
uh... inside cajun embers coming up walk around time
here you've got
well manager replicas of
marcel the shots greatest hits basically that he could send you through
the post
in in his uh...
is that it had too many
using base
so that is where the direct inspiration for the flux kit comes from
and that's one aspect of what
fluxes associated artists deal
another
and arena in which these guys will work that gas and growth
acute quasi musical performance
here is never really performance by
knobs and pike
video artists who we will look at again later in the course
nineteen hike
this is a nineteen sixty one piece
action with violence trade literally what he did with
this is
he tide of violence in the piece of string interactive onto the floor behind
him and as you can imagine as the violence
bumping along on the floor at might make some random samson random music this is
a different way to make
sampson make music incorporating stands in
using the medium using outdated
non-traditional ways
non-jew pike
happy
been in cages
experimental composition course into this was a direct pettit
outgrowth of
his exposure to
john cajuns
theories
this is a
snapshot of giant at nineteen hiding out in one of his famous early piece is
called
one for a violin solo advances from nineteen sixty two
in one for violence so
nineteen sixty two
very very very slowly
set the violin
raised it about his head
and
then at the end of this performance he smashes the violent down on the table at
the noise and that
crash and the sound
that is generated during that smashing into violent games
he became very hike
had started out as the and music major he became very interested in the quality
of the media
lightyear
alternative ways of making music and new technologies that what they'd be
possible so he started to branch off and in a different direction
here in selling you from the late sixties
one of pipes
first male performance pieces that that incorporates a psychic music in a new
technology
this is his
t_v_ bra for living sculpture
and i've got actually on the web
there's an interview with the woman who
was the chalice he did a lot of these collaborative pieces with hike
the t_v_ bra fitting sculptured fair is charlotte mormon with cellist
as you can see she is literally wearing a babe
brock made out of teens small televisions
and
asi plays its shallow
the t_v_
uh... was taking that transmission of
this sound from the cello and
distorting the images that were playing on the t_v_
based on the vibrations of cell
so
this song that would be
modulated by
that technology that she's attached
this was
uh... first example of
let's fluxes artist called inter media that is instead of multimedia
intermediate
where you've got different technologies different media working together
neatly
uh... finished
here and has been a redo uh...
uh... short statement from another fluxes artistic and get that wavered
here
at pennington friedman set
decides the foxes is the laboratory
the research a program of fluxes is characterized by twelve ideas
localism
unity apart by
intermedia experimented with them
chance
wakefulness
and they repeat you'd probably see that in this
simplicity implicated this example that visit
don't know what does need that begins to make it work there
specificity
presence in time and use the call-in
so here that can make people hopefully give you a sense uh... um...
white tigers so
and of central in the early development of fluxes
so he's not a nineteen types
performance slash intermedia peas
here noun solomon is where is making
noise on a cello made entirely out of television's
savings are not as was going on with the t_v_ profit-making sculpture where
the sound she's making of a cello actually fed back into the system
that intelliswift dot to and spend it in error that the t_v_s are hooked up to
him in the tvs distort whatever image is playing on them
based upon the frequency of sound
that is that being admitted here
he also did a piece of collaborative peace with that with mormon called
operates extranet in which mormon discarded it item of clothing after each
movement at the performance
which was very very by the way it misses and sixty five sixty six very very
usually accepted in europe in a very scandalous in the united states i guess
here's another
piece that they cooperated on in them
germany
as boring as possible from nineteen sixty six next rabbit in the show you
how
there's an element that playfulness antoniacci is going on with these
fluxes arts
another
important fluxes artist is this woman seeking a group of us out
here are still a new her *** painting from nineteen sixty five now
think back to the action pictures from the nineteen fifties setback jackson
*** for example think back to b
p tires artist painting at their suspended over a campus with bare feet
fifteen paint
here for the first time we have a woman coming in
and she's not only
challenging the traditional media to be happening on ended traditional ways of
providing which is also kept sticking here
time now at
so to speak radek
figuratively addthis earlier kind of macho failed movements here
uh... creating uh...
abstract art so here
in this the china painting she actually has that
pair of underwear on
and then uh... static
peepers attach that here underwear and then she seemed to be repeating
squabbling around every campus to greet her
uh... working art
so he receive playing with not only are startled tradition
reaching far back into the past but also with more recent
developments in the hearts
sighetu but as i mentioned was
nineteen types
nineteen heights white as well as uh...
as a performance artist in her own right at the two of them actually collaborated
things
one of five
hikes pieces are excuse me to be a couple of times pieces wasn
it was
related to and involved with
chest pain
then show you some still but it's a
in nineteen sixty eight
at in toronto
there was a
performance called reunion
organized by john cage
which included h s vents
between john cage and marcel teeny shop
there that picture on the right you can see
marcela the background their nineteen his wife to the period after that
picture of the right now the guy smoking a cigarette with his back to us as john
cage
this was
uh... performance in which
adam
caged and decide to his wife
played a game of chess
and as you can see it's not just any old chessboard it's actually a chess board
that has been wired to generate sound and light patterns and also has been
wired to record all upbeat actions that are made on the chest or
so this is a performance with the kennedy intermedia
specialty this is uh...
this is an
intermedia performance it's also
chance you know depending on the
what happens during the peace
uh... depending on what moves are made its all sort of generated by the
participant artists here
all of this data that was recorded west he can buy
seagate okubo tet
remanufactured into several
intermediate pieces that reflected on me
or instructors at that
she did a book
student video taping the videos culture from about nineteen sixty eight to
seventy five
dealing with the subjects of
seminal event reunion
the chess match between
to sharpen
incase
i was like two bring this into because it shows you how
a guy like myself the shock even though
a lot of his
ideas are stuff that came out of the nineteen teens
he was still alive he was still in iran kicking and he's still wasn't literally
in reconvenes immunities younger artists and so
it becomes more and more clear how much of an influence he must have had over
this next generation or two of artists
presented you have the chess board on the left which you can see who's been
wired
for light and sound head then mariner view of teeny in myself versus cage
during chess match
and this is just a
i think it's just a program so you can see it very well program from agreement
esmtps
okay well here is one of the pieces that kubota created out of this event eight
book
would still photographs inseam
uh...
tax describing the event
photographs taken of performance and then came a little
thirty-three nhap rpm
record upbeat reunion sound recording
accompany
via text written by john cage
souther there is a little
collaboration going on between voting page here as well as
cage and it's not going to put up with this sound recording event company texas
and uh... photographs
here is brought back that cunningham down spending dance foundations bokram
time from sixty eight just to remind you
that we have gotten ongoing kind of
intellectual collaboration between his younger artists and guys like to show
appears to shops
uh... large class surprising bareback your bachelors even
turn into performance pieces for her performance set pieces for
happen
cunningham dance
the score if this was created by john cage nightly
and to get back to ask for john's
and set pieces here
in the walker arts center
so just remind you of how important is guys are house until they are
as mentors to an intellectual forbearers out uh... the people who are coming up
in the sixties
here's another example of that
products that she gave up the boats had made from
the recordings of their continued chess match this is from
was completed in nineteen seventy five it's a sculpture lcd tv
put on the floor thermometer facing up so that it looks like a chess board
and today there's transparent plastic over it with transparent west chess
pieces
uh... extend the sponsor and the three dimensions outside you know that
light projecting out from the t_v_ would be captured
and reflected in brief racket in various ways by this chess pieces
and so it's kind of
uh... unit would play
it will play the video recording of the test match in that department likes it
went off during the chess match um... looking at the port right
and then that the white project at their word be filtered in different ways
through the the question is pieces
okay so let's see
and the original soundtrack also please brown
sculpture
and she seemed to envision this is a kind of you know
the masters speaking from another world so that they could go on in eternity
plane chessen and they've been
younger generations see them playing chess
but he said
one thing she'd liked
about video as it was a medium with no past history no object adele agreed
values so it's kind of a blank slate for young artists to work with there wasn't
slight with oil paintings six hundred years at least of tradition he have
uh... to deal with right
with video it was all news so it was a whole kind of new playing field and in
fact one of the things she said to you in nineteen ninety-one looking back at
her career with the video
because it didn't have the swine history it hadn't
been establishes a male dominated field
and so male and female artistic as she said begin competition added equal
and this is something that we will see when we look at this developments of the
nineteen seventies that a lot of emerging like feminist artists really
like about me media is that they haven't already been completely co-opted
in and cemented into history
it's okay it's that away