BODY ON EDGE Question Taking the notion of

BODY ON EDGE Question: Taking the notion of ‘the body on edge’ as your starting point, present an account (an overview) of the of artistic and theoretical developments in this sphere over the last 40 years. Refer to selected works of art in each phase.

FOR US… • Artists push their bodies to extreme situations. • Pushing the boundaries of what an artwork ‘is’. • Use of body as a medium to perform. • Focus on: identity, politics and aesthetics.

AMELIA JONES – PERFORMING THE SUBJECT – ‘‘POSTMODERNISM, SUBJECTIVITY, AND BODY ART, A TRAJECTORY” • Body = In danger • Explanation of exposing the body and authority. • Questions troubles of being a woman artist. • References to colonized gaze. • “Replotting the relationship between perceiver and object, self and other. ” – Amelia Jones • Body = Tool, sign, source of meaning • Potential source of empowerment.

BODY ON EDGEOVER THE YEARS: • The meaning has changed. • Engagement and physical element. • Embodiment = moment + relationship of artists with the viewer. LIFE PERFORMANCE IN COLOURS – NATASHA KUDASHKINA

1970’s SUMMARY ‘In the 1960’s and 1970’s. The body became an influential site for artistic inquiry and exploration. By replacing paint and canvas with the immediacy and physicality of the human form, body artists aimed to unite physical, psychological, and emotional experience. ’

CHRIS BURDEN Five Day Locker, 1971 Through the Night Softly, 1973 Transfixed, 1974

MARINA ABRAMAVIC – THOMAS LIPS – 1975 Abramovic: ‘Theres no such kind of a logical ending in dealing with pain. I create a structure in which I can go far into the physical limits that a body can take. I don’t want to die. That is not the purpose. I want to experience the edge and how much I can take to this edge. ’

1980’S SUMMARY In the 1980’s, there was more of a movement to create a link between life and art, and to involve the public more within the art world.

ONE YEAR PERFORMANCE (ROPE PIECE) – TEHCHING HSIEH AND LINDA MONTANO – 1983 - 1984

REST ENERGY – MARINA ABRAMOVIC AND ULAY –– 1980

1990’s SUMMARY Abjection art became more of a trend, abject art is said to "explore themes that transgress and threaten our sense of cleanliness and propriety particularly referencing the body and bodily functions. ” – Tate Website Julia Kristeva – Powers of Horror Spider, 1994, Louise Bourgeois Exquisite Corpse, 2000, Jake and Dinos Chapman

MARINA ABRAMOVIC – CLEANING THE MIRROR – 1995 In this performance, Abramovic is not the focus of the performance, that has been allocated to the skeleton. The piece is deathly, and strange. It puts the audience in an uncomfortable position.

HERMANN NITSCH – ORGIEN, MYSTERIAN AND THEATER – 1962 – 1998 Nitsch is an Austrian artist who’s practice focuses mostly with religious art. He was associated with a movement called Viennese Actionism which was around in the 60 s.

FRANKO B – AKTION 398 – 1998 PRESS RELEASE: ‘The work of Franko B is about being exposed and naked, with nowhere to go and nowhere to hide. His work consistently takes an unshirking look at the body as a canvas and as an unmediated and unrefined site of representation for the beautiful, the untouchable, the unspeakable, the ignorant and for the pain, the love, the hate, the loss, the power and the fears of the human condition. ’

CONTEMPORARY SUMMARY Throughout the last 20 years, body art has arguably lost its strong political messages and has become more about the aesthetics of the work. Although this could be true of the 2000’s, artists seem to be returning to use their bodies in a dramatic way to make a statement rather then just for shock factor.

DAVID CATA ‘MY BROTHER JAVI’ – 2012

MARC QUINN – ‘SELF’ – 1991 – PRESENT

MILO MOIRE – ‘A BIRTH OF A PICTURE - 2014

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