Lecture “On time and body”+”On time and space”

“On time and body: Performance Art”

a journey in the contemporary art of the twentieth century and more…

Time：18:30-20:30, Sep 13, 2011

“On time and space: Installation Art”

a journey in the contemporary art of the twentieth century and more…

Time：18:30-20:30, Sep 14, 2011

Guest Speaker: Chiara Mu（Italy）
Host: He Libin
Location: audio-visual classroom, the first floor ofthe new teaching building, Yunnan Arts Institute, Chenggong,Kunming, China
Organizer: Fine Art College of Yunnan Arts Institute and Foreigner Affair office of Yunnan arts Institute
Co-organizer: 943 Studio

1) Performance Art
A brief personal introduction related to Time-based Art.
When Theatre became Performance: a view on Futurism and its audience’s provocations, how Dada Movement and Situationism move Europe to wards breaking physical boundaries while Gutai was operating similarly in Japan. How thedefinition of happening changed the Sixties in U.S. and the final break-through: when Conceptual Art meets the body:Body Art, Fluxus and Live Art. Furthermore an overlook on the female body considering a psychoanalytic approach:Genre Identities and a glimpse in the newest century on how the body regains collective space: the phenomenon of Flash Mobs.

2) Installation Art
A brief personal introduction related to Time-based Art
From Sculpture to Installation: Brancusi’s Studio and Kurt Schwitters Merzebau. The body in the space: the Gutai’s lesson and the discovery of the whole sensory approach: Kaprow’s Environments. Subverting the roles: the viewers experience as the new (decentred) subject of the art: Immersion, enhanced perception and mimesis. The artist moves out: from studio to situation: Site-Specific Art. Out in the open: Land Art, its history and phenomenology then Relational practices and aesthetics, Nomadic art, Activated Spectatorship and Public Art.