Friday, April 18, 2008

A Performance Art Manifesto

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1. Working Definition of Performance Art A performance art piece is an authentic action performed before an audience, framed as performance ...

Print-Out on the New Art (1968)

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A new art has been with us for nearly a decade now, as it emerged from the void that followed the diminishing presence of abstract expressio...
Thursday, April 17, 2008

ART IS BOOKS, Guy Bleus

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1 History in a nutshell : art today is what it is thanks to the historic avant-garde of Futurism, Dadaism, Surrealism, etc. In this rupture-...
Wednesday, April 16, 2008

The Failure of Names, By James Prosek, Orion March/April 08

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To see more of James Proseck’s images, click here . WHEN I WAS FOUR OR FIVE years old, I would draw birds at the kitchen table. As I finis...

Celestial Spheres, Lita Albuquerque's ceremonial art, By William L. Fox, Orion March/April 08

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FOR THE FIRST TIME IN HISTORY, the majority of the world’s population lives in urban areas, which means most of us also live under streetlig...
Monday, April 14, 2008

Time as Medium: Five Artists' Video Installations, Barbara London

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1995, Leonardo, Vol. 28, No. 1 Over the last 30 years artists have exploited time as a unique effect of video. Dissociated into segments an...
Saturday, April 12, 2008

Global Grove, Nam June Paik

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The video was broadcast by WNET-TV on 30 January 1974 Nam June Paik--composer, performer, and video artist--played a pivotal role in introd...