performance/photography
1-performance/photography: changing relationship
2-visualstrategies:
presentation of self in everyday life
defamiliarisation
the uncanny
contemporary re-enactement
image theatre/the newspaper theatre
3-thefridayclub
presentation by paularoush for the friday club march 20th2009
PIN09 (photographic index 2009)http://photographicindex.wordpress.com

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Performance_art

performance/photography: changing
relationship
• Early days of performance art: 1960s/70s
• Photography: primary role as documentary
record of events
• Photographersmaynot be credited

A photo of Chris Burden's Trans-fixed 1974 performance art piece featuring him being
nailed to a Volkswagen in Venice, CA. The photo copyright is owned by the artist, Chris
Burden.

performance/photography: changing
relationship
• Later developments performance art: from
1980s
• In general, original performance looses its
unique importance, becomes a component in
a process where photography is equally
important (this is a simplification of a much more comples process)
• Photography: equal partner in creating the
image

«Rest Energy»
Standing across
from one
another in slated
position. Looking
each other in the
eye. I hold a bow
and Ulay holds
the string with
the arrow
pointing directly
to my heart.
Microphones
attached to both
hearts recording
the increasing
number of heart
beats.
http://www.mediaartnet.org/works/rest-energy/
Marina Abramovic&Ulay,Rest Energy, 1980

performance/photography: changing
relationship
When actions are performed solely for the camera:
• the performance takes place within the picture
• photography can stand alone as a visual artifact
• can be equally ephemeral if projected onto a wall

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Presentation_of_Self_in_Everyday_Life

Nina Beier and Marie Lund
http://www.ninajanbeier-mariejanlund.com/
Les Sabots
Children of the 68’ generation are gathered to make a face towards the camera
for the duration of a roll of film; 16mm film, 5m

http://www.artnet.de/magazine/features/abc08/abc08_detail.asp?picnum=43&ourlang=

KaterinaSeda, There's Nothing There, 2003, Czech Republic)
Saturday in May 2003, Ponetovice. A village close to Brno in Czech Republic. KaterinaSeda
asked the inhabitants of the South-Moravian village to synchronise their daily routine so they
all did exactly the same things at exactly the same time. The action drew on the artist’s
research into the everyday life of the locals , and its aim was to make people do things
together and to show them – and the world – the village normality as a positive quality.

KateřinaŠedá, There Is Nothing There, action,24.5. 2003, Ponětovice. The artist asked all 300 of
Ponětovic’s inhabitants to follow the same routine for a whole day. So the citizens at the same
moment got up, went shopping, swept...
http://www.divus.cz/umelec/en/pages/umelec.php?id=1036&roc=2006&cis=1

George Hladík, my travel friends, 2005-2008, photography and video
http://www.georgeone.net/

http://www.timetchells.com/projects/performances/ten-people-smiling/

http://www.hugoglendinning.com/forcedentertainment.html

Hugo Glendinning, Forced Entertainment, 12am Awake and looking Down, Tate Modern 2003
http://www.hugoglendinning.com/forcedentertainment3.html

http://www.reginajosegalindo.com/
Regina José Galindo, Guatemala, 1974 El Brinco
Bautizoo ritual de iniciación con el cual se le da la bienvenida a un nuevointegrante de la mara.
(Bienal de Arte Paiz. Guatemala. 2008)

Regina José Galindo, Guatemala, 1974 El Brinco
Bautizoo ritual de iniciación con el cual se le da la bienvenida a un nuevointegrante de la mara.
(Bienal de Arte Paiz. Guatemala. 2008)

Regina José Galindo, Guatemala, 1974 El Brinco
Bautizoo ritual de iniciación con el cual se le da la bienvenida a un nuevointegrante de la mara.
(Bienal de Arte Paiz. Guatemala. 2008)

Regina José Galindo, Guatemala, 1974 El Brinco
Bautizoo ritual de iniciación con el cual se le da la bienvenida a un nuevointegrante de la mara.
(Bienal de Arte Paiz. Guatemala. 2008)

Regina José Galindo, Guatemala, 1974 El Brinco
Bautizoo ritual de iniciación con el cual se le da la bienvenida a un nuevointegrante de la mara.
(Bienal de Arte Paiz. Guatemala. 2008)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defamiliarization

ElzbietaJablonska, Super Mother

http://www.culture.pl/en/culture/artykuly/os_jablonska_elzbieta

Martin Zet (CZ): \"Confession Without Absolution\"

http://www.hugoglendinning.com/yinka.html

Guillermo Gomez-Peña and La Pocha Nostra – ‘The New Barbarians – Designers primitives
on the runaway, runaway’, 2007, Arnolfini, Bristol (UK)
http://www.carlaesperanza.com/carlaesperanzaCollaborations.php

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Uncanny

http://www.annafox.co.uk/arc/12.html

anna fox, country girls, 1996 – 2001, Published in Lindaannaalison.
First exhibited in Fair Play at Danielle Arnaud Gallery, London 2001

anna fox, country girls, 1996 – 2001, Published in Lindaannaalison.
First exhibited in Fair Play at Danielle Arnaud Gallery, London 2001

anna fox, country girls, 1996 – 2001, Published in Lindaannaalison.
First exhibited in Fair Play at Danielle Arnaud Gallery, London 2001

http://www.hmkv.de/dyn/e_program_exhibitions/detail.php?nr=2104

AernoutMik, Netherlands, b. 1962,lives and works in Amsterdam, Stills from Glutinosity
(2001) http://www.cca.rca.ac.uk/thismuchiscertain/exhib_mik.html

AernoutMik Vacuum Room (2005), still from video installation

AernoutMik, Training ground, 2007
http://www.citizensandsubjects.nl/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=15&Itemid=30

AernoutMik, Training ground, 2007
http://www.citizensandsubjects.nl/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=15&Itemid=30

AernoutMik, Mock up, installation, Dutch Pavillion, Venice Biennale 2007
http://www.citizensandsubjects.nl/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=15&Itemid=30

paularoush/msdm. Exercise sos:ok,performative installation, gallery p74,Ljubljana, 2004
http://www.msdm.org.uk/projects/2004-sosok-exercise/

paularoush/msdm. Exercise sos:ok, performative installation, gallery p74, Ljubljana, 2004

paularoush/msdm. Exercise sos:ok, performative installation, gallery p74, Ljubljana, 2004

Jeff Wall, Dead Troops Talk (a vision after an ambush of a Red Army patrol, near
Moqor, Afghanistan, winter 1986) 1992
http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/exhibitions/jeffwall/rooms/room8.shtm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theatre_of_the_Oppressed

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theatre_of_the_Oppressed#Image_theatre

http://live-wirez.gu.edu.au/jea.papers/boland%20and%20cameron.rtf

Friday club, The Unvanquished City, London 2009

friday club
• contemporary re-enactement for site-specific commission:
Bicentenary of the Napoleonic Invasions exhibition in Quartel of
Serra do Pilar, Vila Nova de Gaia, 2009
• strategies:
re-enactement, image theatre, newspaper theatre (crossed
reading)
news sources:
– Napoleonic invasions
For having resisted a military invasion in the 19th century by the Imperial Napoleonic Armies, Porto
is now known as The Unvanquished City (A CidadeInvicta).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Porto
– Contemporary student movement in france
http://www.citizenside.com/fr/photos/manifestations/2009-02-19/13577/l-universite-manifeste-a-paris-
le-19-fevrier.html
– Sarkozy: The new Napoleon?
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/sarkozy-the-new-napoleon-1488656.html

Friday club, The Unvanquished City, London 2009, First exhibited in Bicentenary of the
Napoleonic Invasions, Quartel of Serra do Pilar, Vila Nova de Gaia, 2009

Friday club, The Unvanquished City, London 2009

Friday club, The Unvanquished City, London 2009

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