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Performance Art |
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| Read Linda Weintraub’s articles on Acconci and Abramovic and answer the following. |
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Define performance art? How does it differ from acting? |
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Many artists of the late 60s were drawn to projects that dematerialized art- literally taking the object out of the art making. What circumstances spawned and encouraged this trend? What circumstances and ideas were artists combating in dematerializing art? |
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What kind of objects do Abramovic and Acconci create? How are their works valued? |
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How does performance art “challenge viewers to expand the aesthetic territory of art?” |
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What kinds of borders do Abramovic and Acconci play with in their performances? Why are the artists interested in transgressing these boundaries? |
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Vito Acconci. Seed Bed (8 hour durations, three times a week) . 1972.
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Marina Abramovic performing Seedbed (for 7 hours) at the Guggenheim Museum, 2005
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| In 2005, Marina Abramovic recreated several early performance pieces, including Seedbed. Compare and contrast the work as it was performed by Acconci and later, by Abramovic. Are the pieces exactly the same, differing only in place and time? If there are differences between the performances, what conditions activate those differences? |
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