MARINA ABRAMOVIC AND ULAY

MARINA ABRAMOVIC. SERBIAN PERFORMANCE ARTIST. ACTIVE FOR OVER THREE DECADES. ABRAMOVIĆ'S WORK EXPLORES THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PERFORMER AND AUDIENCE, THE LIMITS OF THE BODY, AND THE POSSIBILITIES OF THE MIND. ABRAMOVIĆ BEGAN TO CONSIDER THE STATE OF CONSCIOUSNESS OF THE PERFORMER. “ONCE YOU ENTER INTO THE PERFORMANCE STATE YOU CAN PUSH YOUR BODY TO DO THINGS YOU ABSOLUTELY COULD NEVER NORMALLY DO.” THE STATE OFUNCONSCIOUSNESS COULD BE INCORPORATED INTO A PERFORMANCE, TO TEST THE LIMITS OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PERFORMER AND AUDIENCE. ABRAMOVIĆ/ULAY EXPLORED EXTREME STATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS AND THEIR RELATIONSHIP TO ARCHITECTURAL SPACE.WIKI. VIEW HISTORY.

VANESSA BEECROFT

BEECROFT'S WORK IS A FUSION OF CONCEPTUAL ISSUES AND AESTHETIC CONCERNS, FOCUSING ON LARGE-SCALE PERFORMANCE ART, USUALLY INVOLVING LIVE FEMALE MODELS (OFTEN NUDE). AT HER PERFORMANCES, VIDEO RECORDINGS AND PHOTOGRAPHS ARE MADE, TO BE EXHIBITED AS DOCUMENTATION OF THE PERFORMANCES, BUT ALSO AS SEPARATE WORKS OF ART. THE WORK AND HER CONCEPTUAL APPROACH IS NEITHER PERFORMANCE NOR DOCUMENTARY, BUT SOMETHING IN BETWEEN, AND CLOSER TO RENAISSANCE PAINTING. WIKI. VIEW HISTORY.

YAYOI KUSAMA

JAPANESE ARTIST WHOSE PAINTINGS, COLLAGES, SOFT SCULPTURES, PERFORMANCE ART AND ENVIRONMENTAL INSTALLATIONS ALL SHARE AN OBSESSION WITH REPETITION, PATTERN, AND ACCUMULATION. KUSAMA'S WORK IS BASED INCONCEPTUAL ART AND SHOWS SOME ATTRIBUTES OF FEMINISM, MINIMALISM, SURREALISM, ART BRUT, POP ART, AND ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM, AND IS INFUSED WITH AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL, PSYCHOLOGICAL, AND SEXUAL CONTENT. KUSAMAIS ALSO A PUBLISHED NOVELIST AND POET, AND HAS CREATED NOTABLE WORK IN FILM AND FASHION DESIGN. 2008 CHRISTIES NEW YORK SOLD A WORK BY HER FOR $5.1 MILLION, A RECORD FOR A LIVING FEMALE ARTIST.  WIKI. VIEW HISTORY.

11.398 MATTHEW BARNEY

MATHHEW BARNEY. AMERICAN ARTIST WHO WORKS IN SCULPTURE, PHOTOGRAPHY, DRAWING AND FILM. FROM SCULPTURAL INSTALLATIONS COMBINED WITH PERFORMANCE AND VIDEO. HE CREATED THE CREMASTER CYCLE. DRAWING RESTRAINTS 1–6 (1987–89) WERE DOCUMENTED WITH VIDEO AND PHOTOGRAPHY. A MAJOR PROJECT CONSISTING OF A FEATURE-LENGTH FILM WITH SOUNDTRACK COMPOSED BY BJÖRK, LARGE-SCALE SCULPTURES, PHOTOGRAPHS AND DRAWINGS, HIS GRAPHITE AND PETROLEUM JELLY DRAWINGS. HE HAS EXPLORED LIVE PERFORMANCE BEFORE AN AUDIENCE A RITUALISTIC EXPLORATION OF EGYPTIAN SYMBOLISM IN ANCIENT NIGHTS. WIKI VIEW HISTORY.

10.382 VALIE EXPORT

VALIE EXPORT. AUSTRIAN ARTIST. HER ARTISTIC WORK INCLUDES VIDEO INSTALLATIONS, BODY PERFORMANCES, EXPANDED CINEMA, COMPUTER ANIMATIONS, PHOTOGRAPHY, SCULPTURES AND PUBLICATIONS. IN 1967, SHE CHANGED HER NAME TO VALIE EXPORT (WRITTEN IN UPPERCASE LETTERS). HER EXAMINATION OF THE WAYS IN WHICH THE POWER RELATIONS INHERENT IN MEDIA REPRESENTATIONS INSCRIBE WOMEN’S BODIES AND CONSCIOUSNESS DISTINGUISHES VALIE EXPORT’S PROJECT. SHE SUBJECTED HER BODY TO PAIN AND DANGER IN ACTIONS DESIGNED. VALIE EXPORT'S GROUNDBREAKING VIDEO PIECE, "FACING A FAMILY" (1971) WAS ONE OF THE FIRST INSTANCES OF TELEVISION INTERVENTION AND BROADCASTING VIDEO ART. WIKI. VIEW HISTORY.

10.337 PAUL MCCARTHY

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PAUL MCCARTHY. CONTEMPORARY ARTIST WHO LIVES AND WORKS IN LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA. MCCARTHY STUDIED AT THE SAN FRANCISCO ART INSTITUTE. IN 1972 HE STUDIED FILM, VIDEO AND ART AT THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA. FROM 1982 TO 2002 HE HAS TAUGHT PERFORMANCE, VIDEO, INSTALLATION, AND PERFORMANCE ART HISTORY. MCCARTHY CURRENTLY WORKS MAINLY IN VIDEO AND SCULPTURE. TRAINED AS A PAINTER, MCCARTHY'S MAIN INTEREST LIES IN EVERYDAY ACTIVITIES AND THE MESS CREATED BY THEM. MUCH OF HIS WORK IN THE LATE 1960S, SUCH AS MOUNTAIN BOWLING (1969) AND HOLD AN APPLE IN YOUR ARMPIT (1970) ARE SIMILAR TO THE WORK OF HAPPENINGS FOUNDER ALLAN KAPROW, WITH WHOM MCCARTHY HAD A PROFESSIONAL RELATIONSHIP. WIKI. VIEW HISTORY.

10.321 MARINA ABRAMOVIC

MARINA ABRAMOVIC. SERBIAN PERFORMANCE ARTIST. ACTIVE FOR OVER THREE DECADES. ABRAMOVIĆ'S WORK EXPLORES THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PERFORMER AND AUDIENCE, THE LIMITS OF THE BODY, AND THE POSSIBILITIES OF THE MIND. ABRAMOVIĆ BEGAN TO CONSIDER THE STATE OF CONSCIOUSNESS OF THE PERFORMER. “ONCE YOU ENTER INTO THE PERFORMANCE STATE YOU CAN PUSH YOUR BODY TO DO THINGS YOU ABSOLUTELY COULD NEVER NORMALLY DO.” THE STATE OF UNCONSCIOUSNESS COULD BE INCORPORATED INTO A PERFORMANCE, TO TEST THE LIMITS OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PERFORMER AND AUDIENCE. ABRAMOVIĆ/ULAY EXPLORED EXTREME STATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS AND THEIR RELATIONSHIP TO ARCHITECTURAL SPACE. WIKI. VIEW HISTORY.

10.314 JOSEPH BEUYS

10.311 VANESSA BEECROFT

BEECROFT'S WORK IS A FUSION OF CONCEPTUAL ISSUES AND AESTHETIC CONCERNS, FOCUSING ON LARGE-SCALE PERFORMANCE ART, USUALLY INVOLVING LIVE FEMALE MODELS (OFTEN NUDE). AT HER PERFORMANCES, VIDEO RECORDINGS AND PHOTOGRAPHS ARE MADE, TO BE EXHIBITED AS DOCUMENTATION OF THE PERFORMANCES, BUT ALSO AS SEPARATE WORKS OF ART. THE WORK AND HER CONCEPTUAL APPROACH IS NEITHER PERFORMANCE NOR DOCUMENTARY, BUT SOMETHING IN BETWEEN, AND CLOSER TO RENAISSANCE PAINTING. WIKI. VIEW HISTORY.