Is performance art suitable for putting collections? Scared that the performance art of the admissions officer is not suitable for inclusion in the work collection But if you want to discuss the interaction of space, time, creators and participants in your work, perhaps adding behavior will make your work more three-dimensional.

Performance art is probably the most puzzling and controversial form in the whole art circle. This kind of expression always makes people unconscious Nudity, self mutilation, violence Connect. For most people, "behavioral artist" is almost equivalent to "neuropathy". Later, in the Internet context, it evolved into a slightly derogatory term to describe the unreasonable #Deceptive behavior#

For students studying abroad in art, it is not "flattering" or appropriate to add such a form to the collection of works - in fact, this is a misunderstanding of performance art. In essence, performance artists, like painters, want to express their ideas through works, but it just happens that they The tools and media used are their own behaviors and bodies ！

Is today's performance art still so "painful"? In fact, this is not the case. Next, I will introduce some relaxed and interesting behavioral works for the students.

　　 Francis Alÿs

In 1997, the artist Francis Al'is completed a performance work called "The Paradox of Practice" in Mexico City.

Paradox of Practice, 1997

In this project, Francis pushed a huge ice block through the streets of Mexico City against the scorching sun.

At the beginning, he needed to bend down and push hard, but by noon, the ice had been melted by the hot Mexican sun so that he could walk with his feet.

In the afternoon, the huge ice has become a water stain on the sidewalk.

After more than nine hours, the ice bricks finally turned into a pool of water.

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Life is mostly futile, but it may be romantic.

Mexican artist Francis Al'is was born in Antwerp, Belgium, in 1959, and returned to Mexico after completing engineering and architectural studies in Europe in 1987. In 1991, he began to participate as an artist.

In Francis' art world, art works and art performances usually exist in a diversified way. Painting, photography and even performance can become the media of his works.

　　 Tension and contradiction between politics and poetics, personal behavior and incompetence, city and space It is the eternal purpose of his works.

　　 Han Bing

As early as 2000, Han Bing, a little autistic and eager to communicate with others, placed his emotion on a humble ordinary cabbage.

He walked Chinese cabbage from the streets of Beijing to Tiananmen Square, and also walked to the world. He took his Chinese cabbage on the cover of Newsweek.

Han Bing, taking cabbage at Tiananmen Square © Han Bing Art.

Walking Cabbage on Tiananmen Square is one of the earliest photos in this series. The following works continued after this work:

Han Bing Walking Cabbage in Houhai District of Beijing (2004)

Han Bing walks cabbages in subway cars in Beijing (2004)

Han Bing Holds Cabbage in Jiangsu Province (2005)

Han Bing walks Chinese Cabbage American Beach and Chinatown in Miami (2007)

In the past ten years, Han Bing has taken his cabbages to more than ten countries. The foreign media described him as follows: His art seeks to question normalcy by giving value to objects society deems unvaluable.

Young people from all over the world compete to imitate Han Bing's behavior. His intention of creating art is“ Let people see how many daily activities we blindly absorb in our daily life ”。

In this behavioral work, Han Bing achieves this by skillfully handling and plain images, which raises important questions about contemporary Chinese social norms.

　　 Geyu Road

Ge Yulu is a personal name, and was once a road name. How can I have a road named after myself in Beijing? Ge Yulu did it.

He made his name "Geyu Road" into a signboard and installed it on an unnamed road beside the East Third Ring Road in Beijing. By mistake, the fake road became true. It has even been incorporated into the public service system of geographical names in civil affairs divisions, and mixed into the official geographical name sequence.

Works "Ge Yulu"

In June 2017, "Ge Yulu", which had survived for three years, accidentally exploded on the Internet and was subsequently demolished by the city management according to law. It was replaced by the new road sign "Baiziwan South First Road".

How to define Ge Yulu's behavior is controversial.

Many artists commented that "Ge Yu Road" is a rare pollution-free, green and environmentally friendly performance art work, and even said that he "may be the best performance art work in China".

Works "Ge Yulu"

To the general public, his works seem to play a modest joke on life.

Some people think this is a kind of Mild critical behavior that focuses on real individuals and not only on specific systems Some people will think it is deviant and criticize him for being not brave and direct enough, not dangerous, more like a prank ".

works Name: Geyu Road a road and a road name sign

Type: record, character, society

Duration: 20min 22s

According to Ge Yulu's own words, what he discussed more is "How much space and possibility can an independent individual have in a huge system" After this incident, two junior radio and television editors and directors from Tongji University filmed a documentary "A road and a road name sign" for Ge Yulu.

　　 Measuring the Universe

The audience played a crucial role in Measuring the Universe (2007) created by Slovak artist Roman Ond á k (b.1966).

Measuring the Universe(2007)

by Slovakian artist Roman Ondák(b.1966)

The artist said it was about the childhood experience of standing in front of the door frame to record the height. During the exhibition, visitors will mark their height, name and measurement date on the wall of the gallery. It was a blank at the beginning. As time went by, the gallery gradually accumulated traces of thousands of people.

The concept of this work is provided by the artist and created by the audience. This method of work abolished the boundaries between artists and ordinary people. The public is a part of the design work, not just a visit.

In the history of performing arts, the process of audience participation in artistic creation has a long tradition. By inviting people to participate actively, artists try to overcome the traditional differences between art objects and audiences, production and acceptance.

Measuring the Universe(2007)

Measuring the Universe turned the domestic custom of recording children's height on door frames into a public activity. From the title of the work, we can find the artist's concern for the ancient human desire to "measure the world".

　　 ● Today's summary

In fact, in the eyes of the audience, the idea that "performance art is cruel, can't understand it, and doesn't want to see it" is not completely without source. Because an important embodiment of Chinese performance art from the 1990s to 2000 is: The body itself is created by artists as an exhaustible material. Seems to be keen on "pushing the body and mind to the limit" 。

However, no matter at home or abroad, with the change of the times, few artists continue the creation of physical injury. Young artists evolve the meaning of body and performance.

Is performance art suitable for putting collections? Today's sharing, I hope that students can not deliberately avoid behavioral works in the collection of works. If you want to discuss the interaction of space, time, creators and participants in your work, perhaps adding behavior will make your work more three-dimensional.

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