trying to get inspired? more performance related artists to research

 

Ana Mendieta, Silueta Works in Mexico
20 x 13 inches, 1973-78, C-Print

tehching hsieh (is a great favorite)
yves klein
gabriel orozco
janine antoni
on kawara
b. nauman
ana mendieta
ukeles
charles ray
adrian piper
richard long
barry le va
eleanor antin
orlan
terry fox
piero manzoni
bas jan ader
shaun gladwell
stan shellabarger

Re-Do for Abstraction?

Solitaire Wins



*Please note the time this post was created. I might be drunk right now but I might not be. Regardless, I think it's a good abstraction piece right now at 4AM – I might be wrong in a few hours.

New "Quick Work" Piece: Losing Before Ever Really Trying

Bas Jan Ader

Bas Jan Ader is a performance artist born in the Netherlands in 1942. He made the majority of his work throughout the 70s before his tragic disappearance and death at sea in 1975. His work didn't gain much popularity until the early 1990s. I am really drawn to Bas Jan Ader's work because he was able to make sincere gestures that captured sentimentality through performance of the body. His performances are humorous on the surface, but ultimately depressing and reflective of the time period and in raw human emotion. My favorite performance by Ader was his last performance entitled In Search of the Miraculous, where Bas Jan Ader attempted to set sail across the Atlantic Ocean – alone – in a 13ft boat. Bas Jan Ader's boat was found 10 months after the performance had began. His body was never to be found.

Welcome To My Modern Fantasy

Matt Mullican!

Nina Katchadourian

Nina's way of organizing work speaks to a particular abstract process of working.  There are umbrella concepts such as language, ways of mapping or organizing and simply paying attention- finding meaning in what we often overlook.  But Nina has many interests and by overlapping her work by medium and subject matter she can communicate her ideas from varying vantage points.  Her work is playful but poignant as she touches lightly on many concepts and by connecting them she adds greater complexity.