You can see Liu’s work in the upcoming exhibit “Performing for the Camera” at the Arizona State University Art Museum from February 4 – March 19, 2012.

The following is an interview with Eli Klein, head of Eli Klein Fine Art, the New York and Beijing-based gallery that represents Liu Bolin.

Trenda: Can you describe the work of artist Liu Bolin?
Kline: He is the master of camouflage. He is described as the “invisible man.”

Trenda: Would you primarily describe Bolin as a performance artist?
Kline: No, he is much more. I describe him as an artist.

Trenda: What makes Bolin’s work so intriguing right now at this moment?
Kline: People are interested in his work because of multiple aspects: It’s not just a performance, but also a painting and a photograph. This reaches a wider audience. We look at the photographs as documentation of these mediums, and this is what we sell. But he is also an accomplished sculptor as well.

Trenda: Does he take all the photographs himself?
Kline: He sets up the photograph himself. He has assistants, obviously, because he can’t be in two places at once. But he is the artist. He is the one doing everything.

Trenda: Chinese artists have a lot of currency in contemporary art world at the moment. Why do you think that is?
Kline: [China’s] economic power in the world creates a strong presence in the contemporary art world. They are doing such a great job internally by supporting the arts through education, museums and other funding. Contemporary art is part of the Chinese culture. It’s not a phenomenon as some people respond to this. It will continue to explode and hopefully will be widely collected in the west.

Trenda: Does that come from the Chinese government allowing more western ideas to be accessible on the Internet and a part of the daily life in China?
Kline: Yes. Contrary to what you hear in the media, they are allowing more images to surface with fewer constrictions. If you agitate the government, they will bite back.

Trenda: What made you decide to represent him?
Kline: We have represented him for over four years. I thought he had an important message in his work. His work is also aesthetically pleasing, and the reaction is phenomenal. You have the best of everything.

Website: www.ekfineart.com

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Russia conquered Kazakhstan in the 18th century. By 1936, that vast Middle Asian country had become a Soviet republic. This means that for most of the 20th century indigenous Kazakhstani culture was de-emphasized in favor of Soviet culture. Russian became the country’s official language and communism the official system. The loaded term cultural genocide has been employed. This much is certain: for several decades a set of cultures was forcibly repressed in favor of a foreign ideology. Call it what you will; the scars are still there.

Kazakhstan became independent in 1991. Discarding the Soviet ways and going back to Kazakhstani culture seemed like the natural next step. The problem is that Soviet immigration policies shifted the country’s ethnic make up. Nowadays ethnic Kazakhs make up only about 60% of the population. Russians, Uzbeks, Ukrainian and others make up the rest. Russian is spoken by over 90% of the people and has remained the country’s intercultural language. Finding a common Kazakh mythology for citizens to gather around seems too intricate, to say the least. And yet, Almagul Menlibayeva is giving it a try. Why? Performance artists have a penchant for herculean acts. Also, her quest fulfills a personal need.

Here’s what she said about self-identity during a recent interview:

“People born in the Soviet Union, we don’t know our past. I learned traditions when I went to my grandmother’s village. But in the village you notice only the rituals and everyday behavior. The intellectual information, you cannot get because, it’s very sad to say, but during collectivization, during the 30s, there were a lot of people who died, moved, and ran away from the communists. [It was hard] to get information about who you are, from where you came and why. There was a big gap. I used to say: I’m a modern person, but who am I?”

Here the idea of atavism emerges. Atavism is the recurrence in a plant or an animal of certain primitive characteristics that were present in an ancestor but have not occurred in intermediate generations; it is a reversion to a former or more primitive type. In her art, Menlibayeva continuously invokes her ancient self. She looks for it around the Kazakh steppe. This is a huge grassy area that first was populated by Turkic nomads before the Arabs arrived in the 8th century (Mongols joined in during the 13th century). Now, it would be wrong to pretend to understand who these Islamic Turkic and Mongol nomads really are. It suffices to know that Tengrism—a Central Asian religion characterized by shamanism, animism, totemism, polytheism and ancestor worship—was integral in the development of Central Asian nomadic culture.

“Who am I?” Almagul Menlibayeva asks.

She was born in 1969 in Almaty, Kazakhstan’s largest city, and attended Academy of Art and Theater of Albaty. At first she was a painter but eventually found her way to performance art, photography, and video art. She’s a fashionable dark haired woman, who wears thick-framed glasses, speaks English, and calls herself a nomad—not that she gallops through the steppes on horseback looking for animals to sacrifice. She works the Albaty, Berlin, and New York gallery circuits. She’s not a steppe nomad, but then again—here is where her atavism crystalizes. Her rituals evoke the nomadic world. And in her best work, she seems to stand in the middle of her own dreams, changed.

It’s important to understand, however, that instead of inserting herself into an ancient mythological realm, Menlibayeva’s art brings the mythological world out into the present (that is, globalization and post-modernity). Menlibayeva videos and photos display strange images of goddesses that could have been taken from an Alejandro Jodorowski movie, but they also display editing that mirrors the MTV music video aesthetic. The sound effects could have come out of any Hollywood horror movie. Her long legged models would not be out of place in Vogue. In terms of artistic language, Menlibayeva is as accessible as, to use two extreme examples, Cindy Sherman and David LaChapelle. But that’s just the bait. Almagul Menlibayeva’s metaphysics are destined to remain impenetrable.

This serves a purpose. Traditionally, Western artists have been attracted to Orientalism for various reasons, but it has mostly come down to a search for freshness. That’s fine, but unnaturalness is always a danger for those who are overly eager in their foreign expeditions. The opposite is also true. Non-Western art can be either unapproachable or too self-consciously derivative of Western forms. Menlibayeva has devised a cunning system. Her tools may be Western, but she reaches down and digs underneath her own feet. The outcome is rare to the point of implausibility uncontrived exotic art.

-Patricio Maya

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She received her BFA in Photography & Media from California Institute of the Arts.

She is currently finishing up a project with EZTV which is a documentary and web database of women in the arts in Los Angeles called L.A. Woman.  It will premier as part of 18th Street Art Center participation in the Getty’s Pacific Standard Time.

Crash’s feminist DIY approach to production allows her to collaborate with many different types of artists, and has led to her understanding of the important contributions of the interviewees in this project. She hopes to inspire others out of apathy into action by the example of these women.

Crash has just been signed by Joan Jett to Blackheart Records.

Interview with Kate Crash by Tiffany Trenda

Where were you born?
Hollywood, CA.

When did you first know you were going to be an artist?
I knew right away. As a child, I had severe social problems and decided to create costumes and worlds of my own to deal with all the darkness. I felt powerless to adults and therefore I could control this by making the content and the characters in my world. I was considered a freak so looking different made it easier and less of an attack on my character. I remember having the feeling that no one understood me, but when I listened to music or experienced art, these things transcended all the isolation. In making art, you are free to express what you want while most things in life contain censorship.

What childhood memories transpired in to your work?
My mother was a civil rights lawyer, so I was interested in studying the Civil Rights Movement and seeing ways of changing oppression in society. I related to this by the feeling of not having a voice. My mom is an amazing woman. I hope to inspire and awaken [others] because people are neither completely dark nor light. They always contain both. Everyone has the potential to be a person of good character, but turn a wrong corner. I saw a lot of this growing up.

Describe your work.
My main interest is to entertain with a message. I think that the global corporate takeover, and the general encouragement of suppressing free will, is something I am interested in and is revealed in my work. I’m not into accusing anyone, as we all are in a world where we can’t help but hurt the environment and each other. I live in Los Angeles, I drive, I pay taxes, so I’m guilty. I like to grab people at the heart of human emotions, to tell a story, to reveal what is underneath. Also, collective consciousness, even what some call “evil” people, can just be misunderstood. I like to come up with solutions and also encourage people to challenge their belief systems and ask themselves why they believe in these constructs. Is this because of the way you were raised, or what the television says to you? There are always contradictions in your belief system so do your research.

Which artists were influential to your work?
EZTV. Michael Masucci of EZTV has helped me on numerous projects. This organization [is] dedicated to giving a voice to the unrepresented while maintaining a super avant-garde edge to the work.

Art with a message is essential. I also really admire S. Pearl Sharp, Kate Johnson — also from EZTV and one of the most amazing multi-disciplinary artists and filmmakers I have ever met. Barbara T Smith; Sue Dakin; my mom; Iggy Pop; David Bowie; Tom Waits; Jim Jarmusch; Van Gogh; Nick Launay, my producer; Eric Erlandson; Pablo Neruda; Li Young Lee; Henry Miller; Anais Nin; Patti Smith; Grace Jones; Leonard Cohen. This list could go on forever.

Are there any movements that inspired you?
Punk Rock, Dadaism, the Riot Grrrl movement.

How would you define performance art?
I’ll leave that to Barbara T. Smith. Her definition is best and she’s the mother of it all.

How do you use your body as a medium?
My body expresses emotion. I use movement to paint pictures. Anything can be a medium but it depends on your intentions.

How has working in different mediums affected your work and process?
I chose the medium that best gets my emotion/story/message across. I don’t automatically say, “I’m going to write poetry now,” or ” I’m going to do draw now.” I just create. I’ve been working with different mediums since I was a kid by writing, painting, taking photos, and playing guitar. Whatever moves and inspires me at that moment is a precursor to what medium I chose. The different mediums help me stay open-minded and create challenges for me to learn new things and break through self-doubt. Therefore, everything in life informs what you end up doing. People set their own limitations and are restrained by the chains they create. I like to feel limitless and break those boundaries.

There has been a lot of controversy over Lady Gaga claiming to be a performance artist. The term “performance artist” has been constantly defined and redefined. You are a musician yourself and an artist. Do you think pop singers can be performance artists? Why or why not?
I think Iggy Pop and David Bowie are performance artists. Go to one of their shows or watch some videos and it’s hard to disagree. But they don’t make pop music. They are pioneering artists as they go out into the world with the characters they have created. Rock & roll is performance art.

Is there a difference between performers like Lady Gaga and performance artists?
Um…this is a tricky subject. What one should consider is, who was first to do a particular performance and who is taking the credit? But I don’t like to make divisions in the world. I have no authority.

What projects are you working on at this moment?
Currently, I’m working on an album, a piece of music for a new film, and creating a stage show. I’m also, in the process of designing a website for my documentary and creating visual art with poetry for an upcoming art show. I’m always working on multiple projects at once. But I always [take] time out to help and collaborate with friends. We should always contribute in helping people however possible.

Tell us about the LA Woman Documentary. What is it about?
LA Woman is a documentary about emerging to ground-breaking female artists, social entrepreneurs, and philosophers expressing art in their own words.

Where did the idea of the LA Woman the documentary come from? Any inspirations?
It was actually first a multimedia documentary project with a website on female performance artists. I got the idea from hanging around EZTV at 18th   Street Arts Center, where one will see the most amazing legendary and unknown female performance artists. I realized that hearing the ideologies and inspirations was so far from my experience with the academics at Cal Arts. We usually read about critics’ and historians’ versions of what happened, not the artists who created it. I wanted to document these woman artists in their own words without the institution. Why do universities and colleges obscure the genuine art making of these artists and pay more attention to less fashionable or less business-inclined artists, I’ll never know. They seem to get left out.

When is the next showing of LA Woman?
You’ll be able to see it on the website soon. Each woman has her own page with video clips, bios, etc. So even if you can’t come to a screening in Los   Angeles, you can watch it anywhere in the world.

Which direction do you see your work going? Documentary? Visual Art? Music?
The melding of all of the above.

Kate Crash’s Documentary “LA Woman” was screened at EZTV’s “Hacking the Timeline v2.0” at 18^th Street Arts Center as part of the PST Events.

http://www.pacificstandardtime.org/events?id=eztv-s-hacking-the-timeline-v2-0

http://www.eztvmedia.com/lawoman.html

http://www.katecrash.com

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Albuquerque’s epic ephemeral pigment piece Spine of the Earth, gained her first national acclaim.  This piece was originally created on the El Mirage Dry Lake bed in the Mojave Desert of California in the Fall of 1980.  It was a pigment based land work that was commenced with a performance by Long Beach State University art students who laid red, yellow and black pigment on the desert floor in a geometric pattern over six hundred feet in diameter.

Spine Of The Earth 2012, was a re-imagining, in an entirely new context, of her seminal project. Over 500 volunteers and one skydiver participated in the performance for January’s Pacific Standard Time Performance and Public Art Festival. The new work embodied a spectral line connecting the Earth’s core to the sky above. Albuquerque used the earth as a drawing surface and the volunteers were commenced in red jumpsuits and represented her paint strokes. The final piece could only be seen in its entirety from the sky above.

Volunteers were given a red piece of paper with the following words:

THE LANDSCAPE IS LISTENING

THIS IS SUNDAY, JANUARY 22 OF THE YEAR 2012

CULVER CITY, CALIFORNIA

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

WESTERN HEMISPHERE

PAY ATTENTION TO THE FEET

YOU EXTEND FROM EARTH TO SKY

RED EARTH

BLUE

FROM INSIDE THE RED

BLUE PLANET

YOU ARE

SURROUNDED IN BLUE

ONE VERTEBRAE IN THE SPINE OF THE EARTH

Albuquerque’s work is powerful live poetry regarding perception, our relationship to our planet, universe and our selves.

– Photos and Article by Estée

18^th Street Arts :  http://18thstreet.org/events/remake-of-lita-albuquerques-spine-of-the-earth-for-pst

Lita Albuquerque’s:  http://litaalbuquerque.com/

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Recently, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art hosted If I Can’t Dance, I Don’t Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution’s production of Five Sisters by Guy de Cointet. If I Can’t Dance, an Amsterdam based organization is dedicated to exploring the evolution and typology of performance and performativity in contemporary art. They sponsor Performance in Residence, which looks at important past performances from the viewpoint of contemporary practice. This staging of Five Sisters was the result of research from the program’s first participant, Marie de Brugerolle, an art historian, curator, dramatist, and professor at the École Nationale des Beaux-Arts de Lyon. Touring Europe and America, the production made its way to Los Angeles, where de Cointet lived and developed his art career and premiered the play in 1982 at Barnsdall Park Theater before his death in 1983.

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If I Can’t Dance and de Brugerolle succeed at reconstructing a show, with the look and feel of a contemporary performance, that supports de Cointet’s work. No doubt the au courant quality, in part, is due to the choice of de Cointet and his Five Sisters, a prescient play that observes a growing acceptance and normalization of the rejection of women echoing in contemporary culture. With this script, he puts his years of examining and experimenting with language into a work that Artforum calls “his most resolved and mature play.” Unlike his earlier plays where language-based props played a key role, in Sisters, language is the key role. He condenses fragments of media and cultural language, with coded messages directed at women, into a 45 minute script. This compression of language combined with melodramatic acting can result in something we laugh at, and indeed it is satirical—but by nature of the satire, we are ridiculing ourselves.

It has been 30 years since the first performance of Five Sisters and this latest production honors de Cointet’s sensitivity to his environment and his foresight in recognizing an increasingly relevant condition in our culture. Mr. de Cointet, Ms. de Brugerolle, and If I Can’t Dance deserve the rounds of applause they have received for this endeavor.

Guy de Cointet moved from France to New York in 1965, then relocated to Los Angeles in 1968 to work as an assistant to Larry Bell. While in Los Angeles, he produced a wide range of work from installations and drawings to books and performances, much of it, focused on visually representing words and language, at times, deconstructing their uses. Largely influenced by Raymond Roussel, known for creating his own set of rules for language, de Cointet was fascinated by language and keenly observed how people derived meaning from it, despite its ambiguous nature—its potential to illicit multiple messages. He studied how it was used as an instrument to code messages, especially by media, and examined how people received these messages. De Cointet experimented with creating his own language and his own code, often using symbols and signs—where code was clear, not hidden in the vernacular. His visual and performance work reflects this exploration through a spectrum of references from literature, French and American soap operas, cinema, television, radio, conversations, newspapers, pop culture. Though marginally recognized by the public for his work, de Cointet, “an artist’s artist,” greatly influenced other artists, including Mike Kelley, Allen Ruppersberg, Catherine Sullivan, and Paul McCarthy.

While de Cointet’s earlier plays included many props giving the audience a visual experience with language, Five Sisters, departed from these works. It was scripted with a collage of language fragments from southern California’s culture of beauty and bourgeoise urban luxury, as experienced by women. With no use of props, the plays impression is solely conveyed by lighting, language, dramatization, and costuming. The minimalist white staging allowed the accentuation of extreme mood changes in the actresses that create the soap opera-like tone, while also reflecting the significant impact of lighting changes from reds to blues to yellow and white. In addition, the actresses were clad in semi-sheer white dresses, in flowing fabrics, maintaining a white-on-white, minimalist visual while simultaneously accenting their movements, their femininity.

Jane Zingale, an original Five Sisters actress and Director of the current staging, began the performance with a monologue of Espahor ledet ko Uluner! Her body writhed and crouched in contortions that matched her tone change from bullish to childlike as she performed the piece written in de Cointet’s invented language. This opening hinted that Five Sisters would not adhere to any code of traditional theater.

The women in Five Sisters do not undergo any character development, but rather caricature development; as the play progresses, they are redundant iterations of themselves. One sister has developed something of an allergy to the sun—she faints, cries, undergoes dramatic mood changes when exposed to its rays. This affliction developed after a trip to Africa, where she interacted with some indigenous people, whom she often recalls with hearty drama, accentuating cultural worldliness, embracing the exotic, “Aaaffrrricaaaahhhhhh.” Another sister is repeatedly said to be in need of a vacation—much like snippets of conversations heard in southern California’s workaholic culture. Two more sisters appear. One, an artist, is disturbed by her own work and obsessed with the color red in them. The other is obsessed with changing her clothes—always unsure of her appearance. Their problems are about extremes while their delight revolves around discussions of maintaining youth, new age health, doctors, and cosmetic surgeons—matters that treat aging as a disease. The dialogue takes on the language of advertisers, of beauty products as the sisters discuss health defined by “luscious hair, vibrant energy, balanced minerals and vitamins.” Intermittently, the women also blurt out non sequiturs—”I will go and comb my hair. I feel proud of my hair these days.” —”I’ll go lose 10 lbs.” —”I’ll go take a nap.” With each line of dialogue, de Cointet further paints them as formidable women, but not impervious to the bombardment of cultural and media messages about maintaining youth, beauty, sexuality, vitality, and the appearance of health.

The five sisters have names but that serves little relevance as they don’t reflect any identity. The names are mere words that is associated with the sisters’ individual conditions and their common condition—a heightened anxiety, a confusion around the urban dilemmas that afflict them. At some point, one sister loses her hearing, another is unsure of her own presence. Identity becomes insignificant, as they lose bits of themselves, and in fact, the fifth sister never even appears. Does she exist? Does it matter?

By Quynh Nguyen

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Photos by Estée Ochoa

Immediately upon our arrival, a team of volunteers, dressed in white Tyvex jumpsuits, began to organize for the “illumination.” Grouped in pairs, they began to spark flares, arranging them around the base of each ziggurat. The pink fog, created a visual spectacle that complimented the pastel sunset sky. Glenn Phillips, curator at the Getty Research Institute, could not have arranged a better venue for the installation.

Chicago’s piece, originally produced in 1968 as Disappearing Environments, was as much a performance in its initial creation, as it was a temporary sculptural intervention in a consumer environment. Chicago described her 2012 re-staging as a “discovery,” with a new intention – to bridge the gap between generations with fundamental different perceptions of environment, aesthetics and safety.

We caught up with artist, Ashira Siegel, who volunteered on the performance to get an inside perspective on the collaborative experience.

When did you first hear about the performance installation at ALAC?

I heard about “Sublime Environment” through “Materials and Applications” (http://www.emanate.org).  M&A is an awesome, Silverlake based, non-profit entity that experiments with art in public spaces and sustainable ideas in building among other things.

What inspired you to volunteer?

I get M & A’s emails.  They are always doing really cool projects that I can never participate in because of timing and a hectic life, but there was no way I was going to miss an opportunity to work with Judy Chicago if I could help it!

Please describe your involvement and the process of the project and illumination performance.

The process was surprisingly very collaborative.  I thought we were just going to be rebuilding Judy Chicago’s original piece, but it ended up being super hands on.  We had discussions and workshops over the course of four months where we experimented with dry ice and flares, discussed possible alternatives to the ziggurat, built those possible alternatives in sugar cubes, discussed some more, and finally decided to go with the design we ultimately did which was nine ziggurats.  We added a tenth ziggurat the day of the performance.

M & A is regarded for their sustainable solutions. Were there any discussions or hesitations regarding the issue of carbon dioxide?

There definitely was hesitation and discussion. This was brought up in the first workshop. They looked into many alternatives but nothing compares to dry ice. Primarily, they wanted to keep the integrity of the original installation.

[Co-founder of Materials & Applications, Oliver Hess explained, “We tried using different materials, like mixing corn starch with compressed rain water, to try to get that thick fog. But there’s nothing like dry ice. We just had to use it to get that kind of ephemeral atmosphere.”]

What were your impressions of meeting and working with Judy Chicago? 

Judy Chicago is no-nonsense when she is working (and when we were working). She is extremely focused on the task at hand, but is also a true teacher in the sense that she turns questions into discussions when possible and then asks more questions to get us thinking.  Judy had the final say on the design of course, but gave thorough consideration to the volunteers as artists in our own right.  She was respectful of each of us as individuals, interested in our ideas, and appreciative that we were there actually doing the hard work and making this piece with her.  She has a confidence and energy that I very much admire and respect.

You were not born the first time Chicago produced Disappearing Environments. How do you imagine this performance is different, more than 30 years later?

I’m sure there were more restrictions and safety concerns than there was in the sixties.  Also – we had way more people, like 30-something volunteer builders carrying the 60 lb. dry ice blocks versus the 3 people in the original piece.

What did this performance speak to you and how did if feel being involved?

It felt like a gift to be involved in Sublime Environment – like I won a lottery. But the truth is that anyone could have signed up and I think that accessibility is also part of the beauty of the piece.  The actual hard labor of building the piece (brick by 60 pound, dry ice brick) throughout the day, methodically lighting the flares and placing them in a specific way, and then stepping back to watch the pink glow as the sky turned dark is a moment I’ll never forget.  I loved how enchanted people seemed to feel being surrounded by the cold dry ice fog hugging the ground and the smoky bright pink light of the flares.  It’s something special to see a sea of faces softly being transformed by an artistic expression that you are creating.  It’s very powerful.

Sometimes I am very sentimental and want to hold on to things that are more ephemeral.  This was a solid reminder that sometimes the beauty is in the details of a moment, of a physical labor of love, of the chance to sit back for a minute and watch something beautiful that you can’t actually ever hold onto.  Sometimes things disappear and the only thing you can do is let it go because you physically have no other choice.  It’s a nice way to relearn this lesson.

By Estée Ochoa

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Under the vast darkness of the wide sky, 1300 onlookers were entwined into the piece as the dancers performed in and throughout a sea of people. Using movement and outerwordly soundscapes, patrons were captivated. Bustling around one another, pressed up against each other, trying to get as close as they could to the tumbling dancers, the physical unity of the audience elevated the arcane energy to reach the heavens.

The final phase of the dance performance cultivated into a hyper-slow meditative walk. As the troupe made their way towards the giant spotlight, Ogura moved in the opposite direction towards the plaza steps.  The dancers heads slowly began to strain back the closer they got to the light, as thread from hundreds of spools was pulled by the dancers’ mouths. The multi-colors formed an immense sculptural rainbow that left an optimistic impression upon all who witnessed this grand performance. The metaphors of every single detail of Kalpa are endless and although the meaning of the performance is relative, it is certain that this experience is an ever lasting memory.

PHOTOS and ARTICLE by Estée Ochoa

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Lacy has been a leading art activist for justice for women for the past forty years. Three Weeks in January uses art as a means of exposing the issue of rape and employs Lacy’s activist media intervention strategy where the space of news media becomes the platform for performance.

The installation is a large scale map of Los Angeles on display at the LAPD Headquarters. The map will show a public record of the rapes and sexual assaults reported from January 9 to February 1, 2012. Each day will mark the prior day’s reports made to the LAPD on the approximate locations of the crime’s occurrence.

For every crime site marked in red, ten lighter marks represent the estimated number that may go unreported.

The work was conceived as a large performance which involved artists, politicians, reporters and policemen- all operating with the shared vision of “art”, as art. Los Angeles Chief of Police, Charlie Beck delivered a speech emphasizing the harrowing depths rape has on the human soul.  Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa exhaled, “That is powerful,” immediately after stencil painting the word “rape” onto a reported location on the map.

Since 1929, rape has been defined as “the carnal knowledge of a female, forcibly and against her will.” That definition, included only men having sex with women without their consent. On January 6, 2012, the Obama administration announced an expansion of the FBI’s definition of rape, which will now include several forms of sexual assault and male rape.

Suzanne Lacy continues to prove herself a prolific artist and educator. For more LACE performances check out Los Angeles Goes Live.

by Estée Ochoa

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Performance art form pieces in many cases are performed just once. These pieces do not involve the reading or memorization of lines from the script, even though artisan may also use his voice within the show. Performance art work components often include props that will or might possibly not have significant social relevance. Shows could possibly be made up of easy being executed on a stage, for instance a mime performing or real mannequins posing. Performance art work activity just isn’t limited to European union or National art form traditions; notable practitioners are located in Asian countries and Latin America . Performance musicians and artists and advocates examine different ways of life and histories, ranging from tribal to sporting and tradition or non secular events. Were, as being a culture, disconnected from normal birth. Our cesarean rates are out of control , our rates of epidural use and “regimen” treatments are escalating, the particular media loves to frighten us with tales of crisis situations and similar-overlooks, and many folks have little subjection to labor and birth until we get to the delivery space our-self . Modern day visual culture will obviously often be the regular ground of recognition to research best places to continue with the traces of human variations and conflicts; cultural, non secular, corporal. However, this direction will necessarily bring us out of that constructed space; it will invite us to initiate the actual and virtual space where every one of us live, in the so-designated séance/ development spaces in our own social and hybrid bodies, the full space of body experience where the ‘ social melting realm’ is often a cosmogony which is biological, analogical and digital: attitude in our way of life. Performance artists frequently challenge the crowd to think in new and unconventional ways, break conventions of common arts, and breakdown typical ideas about “what fine art is”. Providing the particular performer will not become a player who repeats a role, performance art form range from satirical elements.

Performance Art Thru the Past Lightly

But fans in the field can view in particular at the Lisson Gallery in London, which has hosting an exhibition of labor from the sixty three-year-old performance fine art giant Marina Abramovic. The exhibition includes art work historical exhibits including the “Rhythm Series”  from her seventies period displayed as significant-degree photographs and video clip installations, in addition to films featuring her former relationship partner, the particular German artisan Ulay “Light/Dark with Ulay”, Nineteen seventy seven, shows the couple incessantly hitting each other. New work on show by the Belgrade-born artist includes the particular “Back to Simplicity” performances series,

Various other performances were a lot more austere. Bueys’s the 1974 season “I Like America and America Likes Me” observed the actual artisan stay in a gallery space for 3 days, wrapping him self in felt and sharing space which has a undomesticated coyote. A piece of performance art form doesn’t even automatically have to have viewers; it needs to happen . Cuban-American artist Ana Mendieta ‘s performances, numerous including human figure-shaped depressions dug into outdoor landscapes, now only can be found as pics. No one was witness to the work save your camera as well as the photo taker. The photograph isn’t the art object; is in reality almost incidental to the original act.

Folk live theater and dramatics might be traced to the spiritual ritualism from the Vedic ancestors in the second millennium Bc . This folk live theatre with the misty past was combined with dance, food, ritualism, along with a depiction of events from daily life. It was the last element which made it the origin of the classical theatre of later times neo-Dadaists , choose to utilize terms “live fine art” , “steps art”, “pursuits”, “involvement” (see art form involvement ) or “manoeuvre” to spell out their performing activities. As styles of performance fine art appear body art work , fluxus-overall performance, happening , action poetry , and intermedia Today artists and performers are increasingly making a dependence on new instruments, and new strategies to considering their work. an indispensable attitude, a different and potential match to traditional technical and lucid abilities -, social wisdom and ecologically-intelligence are diligently examined and trapped in high esteem. The actual task of performance musicians and artists immediately after 1968 sometimes showed influences of the cultural and governmental events of that year. Barbara T. Smith with Ritual Meal was the main topic on the particular feminist physical body and gratification fine art with the 1970s; amongst others including: Carolee Schneemann , and Joan Jonas. Schneemann and Jonas in addition to Yoko Ono, Joseph Beuys , Vito Acconci , and Chris Burden pioneered their bond between performance shock art and gratification art forms. There is also a specialized kind of fine art in that artists perform their video art or perform live to an audience. This is what’s called performance art work . Most performance art form also entails some sort of plastic art, perhaps inside the creation of props . Dance was sometimes called a plastic art work during the particular Modern dance era.

Performance Art Music and Fashion

Maybe you have heard that Wayne Coyne of the Flaming Lips, James Franco and Lady Gaga are performance art musicians and artists, that their careers themselves are art work objects built up on the lifetime. You may also feel that irrelevant visual promotion is performance art form. And perhaps it can be! Really, it’s up to you, there is no quick and simple chart to share with what is performance art work and what isn’t. Having said that, there are many guidelines to follow when defining performance art and what are performance artists, negative credit the actual medium’s history in addition to its current practice. Despite what you’ve heard, you’ll find good reasons that getting carried in around in a crystal bubble at a rock concert or winning the music Grammy awards within an egg shell isn’t seriously an act of performance art work, it is just good promotion of performance art.

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The invention of super 8 cameras and lower cost digital recording mediums gave rise on the continuing development of video performance recording art. Journalists originally used these units for showing news events, but performers and performance artists soon began using super 8 and digital cameras to record moving images for artistic purposes In the 1970s many artists in Europe and also the USA shared a consignment to video footage art as an autonomous form, instead of as documentation or possibly a way to obtain abstract imagery. A visual evolved related to conceptual art, that was interested in ideas and also images: it turned out seen as an real as opposed to edited timescales by the application of closed-circuit, multi-monitor installations Whether strictly narrative, ambient, collaged into a greater installation or some combination of the suggestions above, together these artists presented an expanded portrait of video footage fine art necessary for its diversity. We might all use more shows genuinely to further our personal idea of the various possibilities and avenues that video footage fine art takes,

Because performance art and a performance artists vocabulary runs in an not real virtual space, most environments are developed by a futuristic aesthetics that take up feeling of disenchantment for lost paradise Many in the early prominent video recording artists have been those involved with concurrent movements in conceptual fine art, performance, and experimental film. video recording art’s long-standing connects to to performance ( see also performance fine art ), along with its often avant-garde nature. Other artists did start to research video recording projection, which usually enabled them to create more-monumental effects, often viewed on museum and gallery walls. In the 1970s numerous artists in Europe as well as the USA shared a consignment to video footage fine art as a possible autonomous form, rather than as documentation or perhaps a supply of abstract imagery. A pleasing evolved linked to conceptual art, that was interested in ideas in addition to images The significance about this artistic practice could be that the volume isn’t a mere visual impression, but that anything that the machinima shows occupies a place and has been sculpted, aficionados . Moreover, as the figures which can be made do not need to undergo earthly physical limits– by way of example, legislation of gravity– surreal and fantastic structures and objectives are achieved that are impossible to get in the real world, yet achieved by way of the video performance artists.

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