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Lecture 4 - The body in contemporary art
- 1. Art Matters: Illuminating Contemporary Art Shepparton Art Museum 2015 LECTURE 4: THE BODY IN CONTEMPORARY ART
- 2. Hans Bellmer, The Machine-Gunneress in a State of Grace, 1937 What is a body?
- 3. 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
- 4. 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
- 5. 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
- 6. • An Object: receives meaning • A Subject: produces meaning • A Performance: unfolds over time
- 7. Cosmopolitan Magazine, November 2011
- 8. Leigh Bowery Pregnant tutu head, 1994
- 9. Leigh Bowery, “Session VII”, Look, 38, June 1994
- 10. Bruce Nauman, Self-Portrait as a Fountain, 1967
- 11. Yasumasa Morimura, Mona Lisa in its origin, 1998
- 12. Yasumasa Morimura, Portrait (Futago), 1988-1990
- 13. Fiona Foley, Native Blood (detail), 1994 SAM Collection
- 14. Richard Bell, The Pecking Order, 2007
- 15. Roy Lichtenstein Shipboard Girl, 1965 Richard Bell The Pecking Order, 2007
- 16. Richard Bell, Scratch an Aussie, 2008
- 17. Vernon Ah Kee, Unwritten #3, 2011 SAM Collection
- 18. Allan Kaprow, Household (Women licking jam off a car), 1964
- 19. Gutai Group member Saburo Murakami, Passing Through, 1956
- 20. Yves Klein Le Saut dans le Vide (Leap into the Void) 1960
- 21. Yves Klein Le Saut dans le Vide (Leap into the Void) 1960
- 22. Yves Klein, Anthropometry Performance, 1961
- 23. Yves Klein, Large Blue Anthropometry, c.1960
- 24. Yoko Ono, still from Cut Piece, performed 1965
- 25. Marina Abramovic, The Artist is Present, MoMA, 2010
- 26. Marina Abramovic: The Artist is Present, theatrical trailer, HBO Films, 2012
- 27. Marina Abramovic and Ulay, Imponderabilia, 1977 Reperformance at MoMA, 2010
- 28. Kate Mitchell, Lost a bet, 2011
- 29. Brown Council, Performance Fee, 2012
- 30. Gabrielle de Vietri, Three Teams, 2013
- 31. Ash Keating, West Park Proposition, 2013
- 32. Agatha Goethe Snape, Every Artist Remembered (Laresa Kosloff), 2011
- 33. Gabriella Mangano and Silvana Mangano, Imagining Structures, 2014
- 34. Santiago Sierra, 160cm line tattooed on four people, 2000
- 35. Francis Alÿs, Paradox of Praxis 1 (Sometimes Making Something Leads to Nothing), 1997
- 36. Bas Jan Ader, Fall II, 1970
- 37. Bas Jan Ader, Fall II, 1970
- 38. Sam Jinks, Woman and Child, 2010
- 39. • 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