Body art

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Body art ( German body art ) is an artistic concept of the 20th century. This art movement arose in the 1960s from the happening and fluxus movement . The body serves both as an art medium and as an art object. Often it is about performances . Further art movements are photography and video art . The artists sometimes inflict injuries and pain on themselves, treating their bodies as “material”.

The artists

Well-known representatives of body art include Marina Abramović , Chris Burden , Vito Acconci , Günter Brus , Dennis Oppenheim , Gina Pane , Pippilotti Rist, Carolee Schneemann, Annegret Soltau , Urs Lüthi , Jürgen Klauke , Rudolf Schwarzkogler , Peter Gilles , Valie Export , Timm Ulrichs but also the representatives of Viennese Actionism at the end of the 1960s.

“The main characteristic of Body Art is to attack the viewer. The aesthetics of the work of art is determined by the extent to which the viewer's thinking habits are disrupted and he is brought out of his passive behavior. "

aesthetics

Shock and disgust effects are deliberately provoked.

Exhibitions

The first body art exhibition is likely to have been a small video-based exhibition called body works that was organized by artist and theorist Willoughby Sharp at Tom Marionis Museum of Conceptual Art , San Francisco. In 1973 what was probably the first European show took place in Graz, entitled Body Language as part of the steirischer herbst festival . In 1975 a larger body art exhibition also took place in Paris . There, François Pluchart published a manifesto on body art. In this, the claim to the immediacy of one's own physical experience is declared a political necessity. Shortly thereafter, the first museum exhibition opened at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, curated by Ira Licht. In 1975/76, an exhibition entitled Body Language took place in the Haus am Waldsee , Berlin and in the Frankfurter Kunstverein, curated by Georg Bussmann and Thomas Kempas.

literature

• Hanna Heinrich: Aesthetics of Autonomy. Philosophy of Performance Art . Transcript, Bielefeld, 2020, ISBN 978-3-8376-5214-7 .

Web links

Commons : Body art  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Article on Body Art ( Memento from September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ^ Marioni, Tom: Beer, Art and Philosophy. A memoir . Crown Point Press, San Francisco 2003, ISBN 978-1-891300-17-2 , pp. 97 .
  3. ↑ steirischer herbst archive: body language at steirischer herbst. steirischer herbst, accessed on September 27, 2018 .
  4. ^ Museum of Contemporary Art (Ed.): Exh. Bodyworks (March 8 - April 27, 1975) . Chicago.
  5. ↑ Bussmann, Georg; Kempas, Thomas: body language . Ed .: Haus am Waldsee, Berlin; Frankfurter Kunstverein. Berlin 1975.