Lecture 4 - The body in contemporary art
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Art Matters: Illuminating Contemporary ArtShepparton Art Museum2015
LECTURE 4: THE BODY IN CONTEMPORARY ART
Hans Bellmer, The Machine-Gunneress in a State of Grace, 1937
What is a body?
What is a body?
An Object-a machine containing our consciousness/self-receives meaning-Rene Descartes
-the body is a machine and consciousness is immaterial-Mind/body dualism
-The Description of the Human Body, 1647
What is a body?
A Subject-we are nothing more than our bodies-the mind is a physiological phenomenon-the body has agency-the body produces meaning
What is a body?
A Performance-identity is not inherent, but acted out-we don’t have a fixed, stable conception of the body
-ideas shift with changing social norms-social conventions, performed daily, to reinforce identity-eg. Judith Butler, Gender Trouble, 1990
-relationship between sex, gender and sexuality is culturally constructed and socially performed
• An Object: receives meaning
• A Subject: produces meaning
• A Performance: unfolds over time
Cosmopolitan Magazine, November 2011
Leigh BoweryPregnant tutu head, 1994
Leigh Bowery, “Session VII”, Look, 38, June 1994
Bruce Nauman, Self-Portrait as a Fountain, 1967
Yasumasa Morimura,Mona Lisa in its origin, 1998
Yasumasa Morimura, Portrait (Futago), 1988-1990
Fiona Foley, Native Blood (detail), 1994SAM Collection
Richard Bell, The Pecking Order, 2007
Roy LichtensteinShipboard Girl, 1965
Richard BellThe Pecking Order, 2007
Richard Bell, Scratch an Aussie, 2008
Vernon Ah Kee, Unwritten #3, 2011SAM Collection
Allan Kaprow, Household (Women licking jam off a car), 1964
Gutai Group member Saburo Murakami,Passing Through, 1956
Yves KleinLe Saut dans le Vide(Leap into the Void)1960
Yves KleinLe Saut dans le Vide(Leap into the Void)1960
Yves Klein, Anthropometry Performance, 1961
Yves Klein, Large Blue Anthropometry, c.1960
Yoko Ono, still from Cut Piece, performed 1965
Marina Abramovic, The Artist is Present, MoMA, 2010
Marina Abramovic: The Artist is Present, theatrical trailer, HBO Films, 2012
Marina Abramovic and Ulay,Imponderabilia, 1977
Reperformance at MoMA, 2010
Kate Mitchell, Lost a bet, 2011
Brown Council, Performance Fee, 2012
Gabrielle de Vietri, Three Teams, 2013
Ash Keating, West Park Proposition, 2013
Agatha Goethe Snape, Every Artist Remembered (Laresa Kosloff), 2011
Gabriella Mangano and Silvana Mangano, Imagining Structures, 2014
Santiago Sierra, 160cm line tattooed on four people, 2000
Francis Alÿs, Paradox of Praxis 1(Sometimes Making Something Leads to Nothing), 1997
Bas Jan Ader, Fall II, 1970
Bas Jan Ader, Fall II, 1970
Sam Jinks, Woman and Child, 2010
• The body could be thought of as:• Object• Subject• Performance
• The body as a performance is the idea that we understand identity as a cultural condition, not a biological one
• The body is a site of contestation over meaning• Means different things to different people
• There is debate as to whether documentation is the same as reperformance in contemporary performance art
Some Key Ideas from this lecture