Favorite Performers
There were several performances that I enjoyed watching. As always a favorite is going to be Banksy. Ive seen "Exit through the Gift Shop" and thought of the graffiti artists from that story to be very bold and creative in there presentations of there work. With many of them including Banksy going out in the middle of the night or at the most random times of day, they go onto roofs, on the side of buildings and billboard signs with spray paint and large poster size images to self promote themselves and there work.
The Flash mobs were so interesting to watch. There were a few I enjoyed like "The Frozen Grand Central" performance where a group of 200+ people coordinated a moment to where they were going to freeze at the exact same moment in whatever position they were in. There were several people all over the station filming the event. Its amazing how much attention was drawn from just being still.
There was a performance called "Kagemu a Paris" where a man had a blank backdrop behind him with shadows and silhouettes were shown. He did a series of fighting sequences with the shadows and they were reacting to his movement. He used a Nanchaku weapon which is common in martial arts, to interact with shadows and destroy them. You could see a shadow smoke effect every time he hit one.
These performances and actions are planned out ahead of time and they are all performed publicly or put out there for the public to see. They are self promotion. They show the individual or group talent for there audience to see. Whether you are standing frozen or putting your signature on a public structure they are showing the public that they have something to say. There wasn't much in the way of technology used in these except for the shadow performance. Most of these performances looked like normal people putting on a show for an audience that didn't know what they were getting. There were a lot of people watching that took video, to most likely post onto social media or text there friends and family that weren't there to see it. Anything can be made nowadays with just the click of a button.
Performance Art can be interpreted many different ways. It can use technology to get the point across or it can be just you and your Art. But with a lot of performances today that are public in any way are recorded and documented, its hard to get away from that whether you use it in your work or not.
The Flash mobs were so interesting to watch. There were a few I enjoyed like "The Frozen Grand Central" performance where a group of 200+ people coordinated a moment to where they were going to freeze at the exact same moment in whatever position they were in. There were several people all over the station filming the event. Its amazing how much attention was drawn from just being still.
There was a performance called "Kagemu a Paris" where a man had a blank backdrop behind him with shadows and silhouettes were shown. He did a series of fighting sequences with the shadows and they were reacting to his movement. He used a Nanchaku weapon which is common in martial arts, to interact with shadows and destroy them. You could see a shadow smoke effect every time he hit one.
These performances and actions are planned out ahead of time and they are all performed publicly or put out there for the public to see. They are self promotion. They show the individual or group talent for there audience to see. Whether you are standing frozen or putting your signature on a public structure they are showing the public that they have something to say. There wasn't much in the way of technology used in these except for the shadow performance. Most of these performances looked like normal people putting on a show for an audience that didn't know what they were getting. There were a lot of people watching that took video, to most likely post onto social media or text there friends and family that weren't there to see it. Anything can be made nowadays with just the click of a button.
Performance Art can be interpreted many different ways. It can use technology to get the point across or it can be just you and your Art. But with a lot of performances today that are public in any way are recorded and documented, its hard to get away from that whether you use it in your work or not.
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