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Matters: Illuminating Contemporary Art Shepparton Art Museum 2015 LECTURE 4: THE BODY IN CONTEMPORARY ART

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Art Matters: Illuminating Contemporary ArtShepparton Art Museum2015

LECTURE 4: THE BODY IN CONTEMPORARY ART

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Hans Bellmer, The Machine-Gunneress in a State of Grace, 1937

What is a body?

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What is a body?

An Object-a machine containing our consciousness/self-receives meaning-Rene Descartes

-the body is a machine and consciousness is immaterial-Mind/body dualism

-The Description of the Human Body, 1647

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What is a body?

A Subject-we are nothing more than our bodies-the mind is a physiological phenomenon-the body has agency-the body produces meaning

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What is a body?

A Performance-identity is not inherent, but acted out-we don’t have a fixed, stable conception of the body

-ideas shift with changing social norms-social conventions, performed daily, to reinforce identity-eg. Judith Butler, Gender Trouble, 1990

-relationship between sex, gender and sexuality is culturally constructed and socially performed

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• An Object: receives meaning

• A Subject: produces meaning

• A Performance: unfolds over time

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Cosmopolitan Magazine, November 2011

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Leigh BoweryPregnant tutu head, 1994

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Leigh Bowery, “Session VII”, Look, 38, June 1994

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Bruce Nauman, Self-Portrait as a Fountain, 1967

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Yasumasa Morimura,Mona Lisa in its origin, 1998

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Yasumasa Morimura, Portrait (Futago), 1988-1990

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Fiona Foley, Native Blood (detail), 1994SAM Collection

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Richard Bell, The Pecking Order, 2007

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Roy LichtensteinShipboard Girl, 1965

Richard BellThe Pecking Order, 2007

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Richard Bell, Scratch an Aussie, 2008

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Vernon Ah Kee, Unwritten #3, 2011SAM Collection

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Allan Kaprow, Household (Women licking jam off a car), 1964

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Gutai Group member Saburo Murakami,Passing Through, 1956

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Yves KleinLe Saut dans le Vide(Leap into the Void)1960

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Yves KleinLe Saut dans le Vide(Leap into the Void)1960

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Yves Klein, Anthropometry Performance, 1961

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Yves Klein, Large Blue Anthropometry, c.1960

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Yoko Ono, still from Cut Piece, performed 1965

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Marina Abramovic, The Artist is Present, MoMA, 2010

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Marina Abramovic: The Artist is Present, theatrical trailer, HBO Films, 2012

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Marina Abramovic and Ulay,Imponderabilia, 1977

Reperformance at MoMA, 2010

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Kate Mitchell, Lost a bet, 2011

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Brown Council, Performance Fee, 2012

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Gabrielle de Vietri, Three Teams, 2013

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Ash Keating, West Park Proposition, 2013

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Agatha Goethe Snape, Every Artist Remembered (Laresa Kosloff), 2011

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Gabriella Mangano and Silvana Mangano, Imagining Structures, 2014

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Santiago Sierra, 160cm line tattooed on four people, 2000

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Francis Alÿs, Paradox of Praxis 1(Sometimes Making Something Leads to Nothing), 1997

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Bas Jan Ader, Fall II, 1970

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Bas Jan Ader, Fall II, 1970

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Sam Jinks, Woman and Child, 2010

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• The body could be thought of as:• Object• Subject• Performance

• The body as a performance is the idea that we understand identity as a cultural condition, not a biological one

• The body is a site of contestation over meaning• Means different things to different people

• There is debate as to whether documentation is the same as reperformance in contemporary performance art

Some Key Ideas from this lecture