Category Archives: Research
Influences
One of the practitioners which has been influential to our research is Marina Abramović who experiments in detail with her body. One of her pieces of work Rhythm 0 1974 allows the audience to experiment with objects against her body. There are 72 objects which are laid out onto … Continue reading
Performance Artist: Jeremy Deller
Once we had settled on looking into the idea of community spirit and how people can be brought together through happiness, good news, outrage and bad news. One of the main artists I looked at in relation to this was … Continue reading
Performance Artist: Franko B on the Body
Continuing of from artists who explore the body in relation to performance and it’s limitations, I have looked at a performance artist, Franko B, who creates work that can make the spectator feel uncomfortable. The one piece of his that … Continue reading
What affects our mood?
With the development of our ideas, it had become apparent to us all that not only were we looking at cause and effect but we were looking at the cause and effect of mood! So we then asked the question … Continue reading
Using our own body
In his book titled Performance: a critical introduction, Marvin Carlson states how some performance practitioners / artists: do not base their work upon characters previously created by other artists, but upon their own bodies, their own autobiographies, their own specific … Continue reading