The Case for Performance Art | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios

I've been really getting into avant garde and various other forms of modern art lately, and the thing I love about it is that, whether or not you like the art itself, it's always an experience unlike any other. Whatever I'm seeing or hearing is the only thing like it in the world. I'm also starting to appreciate this idea that part of the art and the experience of it is the individual's interpretation. Art can and should evoke feelings, but it's not the same as, say, entertainment, which almost exclusively tries to evoke some kind of deliberate catharsis. Even when non-entertainment art is meant to tell you, even convince you of, one thing and one thing only, what it MEANS is and should be different to everyone. It tells them more about themselves that it does the art or the person who made it. What you take from it is informed almost entirely what you bring to it with your own thoughts, feelings and experiences ("the love you take is equal to the love you make" etc.).

As such, I don't think "uncomfortable" was the right word to end this video on. Art should definitely make you think about things, about your own feelings, your feelings about the world around you and of your place in it, and that can look like anything: it can be discomfort, but it can also be enlightenment, catharsis, politics, values, humanity, humility, joy, sadness, anger, or something you can't even put into words, but it'll be something you wouldn't have thought about until you saw the art. Art is meant to make you think about things, but not what to think OF them. We have enough things in the world telling us what to think.

The idea that it should only make you uncomfortable, to me, is not only too negative but also dismisses the thing that makes art great in the first place, that whatever it's about, what it means is what it means to you and you alone.

But of course, that's all just one person's interpretation.

Thanks for this inspiring retrospective piece on Performance Art.

Returning back to this video 7 years later while I'm getting ready to see the Marina Abramovic retrospective at the Royal Academy. So good as always.

Have to watch this for uni

good job

Good stuff! Much appreciated.

Hello.
Would you be able to guide me, I want to pursue performance studies at a masters level program. It would be great if you could share your insights on universities/colleges that offers a deep and genuine studies in the field of performance art.

Woah, i am just down the road from black mountain college

Can you suggest any academic books about how to have this in a Museum? Love to learn but when did the performance leave the theater stage and go into galleries as art? It's not even public information for people to apply to have their performance in Museums🤔

I ❤️ Love ❤️ it PERFORMANCE art 🎨 ✨️ Is Uniqueness

This is fantastic

This was great! Being a follower of Marina's work, these additional performance art concepts were excellent. Thank you!

“They followed strangers” 🤔🧐 Not sure I’d call that art

Powerful episode. I am a performer and this led me to Wow, what I had not considered. Now I understand. Brilliant.

The primary motive behind performance art is to provoke, to cause outrage. Few people have the palate to appreciate it.

pseudo art

The followed stranger?????? Smh

Thank you for your vlog! You are an awesome storyteller and i enjoy every minute of every essay on every topic. Good luck to you 🤍

someone PLEASE help me come up with an idea for my performance art project I am STRUGGLING

thank you AA. as performance artist i feel very connected with the whole selection of artist you made. warm regards!

Wonderful! Performance art as we are all into has come to stay. We use it to talk about pressing social issues

Eu precisava muito assistir esse vídeo hoje 🥰✨

"it is to make you ask questions" yeah made me ask why in the hell would you do some of this stuff???

what form of normalizing psychos... we all heard that they followed people point guns at one another had played a daring game with a knife... the fuck that isn't art that is just outright mental illness

It seems like an excuse to be obnoxious

So gooooddd!!!

Thank you!!!!!!!!!!

Hii. Could you suggest few schools for performance art studies?

Ugh... .

Only females and gay people give a fuck about performance art

I didn't understand, can someone explain this type of art it in a simpler way?

Chris Burden is the best. So sorry he's gone, he had a lot of projects in progress when he died. Only one of those works was completed and exhibited that I know of. Doomed is my favorite piece of his.

This was very interesting!! I remember around 15 years ago I went to the Venice Biennale, I walked into a gallery space which was empty and felt immediate discomfort that something wasn't right and then out of nowhere I was surrounded by lots of people in black cloaks singing "this is so contemporary" I felt so uncomfortable and wanted to leave, but I was surrounded. It stook with me all these years, both their actions and the feelings I got from it, so by that, it must have been one of the most powerful pieces of work there. Over the years I have been to (and been part of) theatre which edges into this realm, walk about theatre where everyone walks around the building coming across acts which may or may not break the fourth wall and bring you into the action. You never know what each room, corridor, storage cupboard or even lift is going to bring and it's a type of theatre that has worked really well in my experience.

Hamparte puro...o será hamparte realista?

where can I find the video of Ben Patterson's Variations for Contrabass?

magic mike is art indeed

our module brought me here

Amazing

My modules brought me here.

Nice work ! Does someone know something about the thumbnail of the video ? The image is haunting!

I'm only watching this bullshit for stupid fucking school

can we have a video on fashion as a medium of art pleeeeeeaaaaassseeee

DOnt search for stelarc.