6. Body Politics: Performance Art and Feminist Art

Question 1

NEO-CONCRETISM / TROPICÁLIA

1960s

Question 2

PERFORMANCE ART

1960s–1970s

Answer 2

“Performance in the last two years of the sixties and of the early seventies reflected conceptual art’s rejection of traditional materials of canvas, brush or chisel, with performers turning to their own bodies as art material, just as Klein and Manzoni had done some years previously. For conceptual art implied the experience of time, space and material rather than their representation in the form of objects, and the body became the most direct medium of
expression. Performance was therefore an ideal means to materialize art concepts and as such was the practice corresponding to many of those theories.”

Question 3

7 types of 1970s performance art according to Goldberg:

Answer 3

– Autobiographical
– Artist as interlocutor (e.g. Beuys’ Q&As)
– Instructions (e.g. Yoko Ono)
– The artist’s body (e.g. Vito Acconci)
– The body in space (e.g. Dan Graham)
– Ritual (e.g. Viennese Actionism, Gina Pane etc.)
– Living Sculptures (e.g. Gilbert & George)