Posts Tagged ‘ 1980s ’
So the first piece that we re-performed was Vito Acconci’s Centers. We then decided to start looking for performance that could utilize our relationship. Performances that incorporated two bodies in their original intention, and ideally works that were concerned with the nature, energy and dynamics of relationship. [ READ MORE ]
So this is a new idea: re-performing objects. We started with Longo sort of arbitrarily – we love his work, but probably wouldn’t have chosen it as a beginning for our investigation of material culture through performing the objects of that culture. We’ve worked for a long time around the idea of object/surroundings informing identity. For [ READ MORE ]
“31. If an artist uses the same form in a group of works, and changes the material, one would assume the artist’s concept involved the material.” What does it mean to re-perform a drawing? Even if the original drawing was life-sized? How does involving the body – as a viewer, as opposed to a producer – [ READ MORE ]