On Location at Art Los Angeles Contemporary with Judy Chicago’s Sublime Environments.

Judy Chicago’s Sublime Environments performative installation, opened the Art Los Angeles Contemporary fair this past weekend, and initiated Pacific Standard Time’s 11-day Performance and Public Art Festival. Twenty-five tons of dry ice composed 10 ziggurats, stacked and organized in a large oval just outside the Santa Monica, Barker Hangar entrance.Awestruck patrons were forced to reckon …

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Hirokazu Kosaka’s Pacific Standard Time’s Performance “Kalpa” at the Getty Center

PHOTOS and ARTICLE by Estée Ochoa When a performance is presented by James Cuno, president of The J. Paul  Getty Trust and the venue is The Getty Museum’s Central Plaza, you know your in for something great. In most cases, the venue is as much a part of the process in performance art as the artist performing.  Hirokazu Kosaka’s site-specific …

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Suzanne Lacy’s Three Weeks in January with LA’s Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa

On January 12, 2012 the Mayor of Los Angeles presented Suzanne Lacy’s public, artwork installation, Three Weeks in January: End Rape in Los Angeles.  Pacific Standard Time and LACE projects is a collaborative work combining performance and conceptual art and is a re-creation of her pioneering social artwork Three Weeks in May, which first took place …

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Video Performance Art

Performance artists and digital video performance art using video recording technology embrace a future form of art that has yet to achieve it’s total vortex.  Video performance art can not be categorized as one of many traditional plastic art forms, but connects more appropriately on the temporal level of arts of music, theater, performance, and …

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Performance Art and Dadaism

Within performance art the importance  from the dadaist movements is often a pivotal time the birth of “performance artist surrealism” The art of the Surrealist movement was centered throughout the irrational and the subconscious, both depicting dream-like images. When the Surrealist movements began in 1919 the key part of creativity was applied through automatic writing, …

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Performance Art and Music

In performance art and performances artists there are many instances of a distinct connection to music. Some music performance artists include Yoko Ono, Laurie Anderson, Wayne Coyne of the Flaming Lips. It can be addressed that many musical performance artists under the umbrella of “art rock”  “glam rock” and visually striking stage performers such as …

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Performance Artist Larks in Plastic

Performance Artist Performance artist, performance art and the performing arts, Considering that the start of the Performing arts may also be supported by creative individuals in related fields, such as song writing and stagecraft dating back to the formation of civilizations. General performance Work of art and digital art mediums have been extremely integrated into …

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