1-performance/photography: changing relationship 2-visual techniques : the presentation of self in everyday life the defamiliarisation the uncanny the image theatre/the newspaper theatre 3-the friday club presentation by paula roush for the friday club march 20th 2009 http://photographicindex.wordpress.com

1. performance/photography
1-performance/photography: changing relationship
2-visualstrategies:
presentation of self in everyday life
defamiliarisation
the uncanny
contemporary re-enactement
image theatre/the newspaper theatre
3-thefridayclub
presentation by paularoush for the friday club march 20th2009
PIN09 (photographic index 2009)http://photographicindex.wordpress.com

2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Performance_art

3. performance/photography: changing
relationship
• Early days of performance art: 1960s/70s
• Photography: primary role as documentary
record of events
• Photographersmaynot be credited

4. A photo of Chris Burden's Trans-fixed 1974 performance art piece featuring him being
nailed to a Volkswagen in Venice, CA. The photo copyright is owned by the artist, Chris
Burden.

5. performance/photography: changing
relationship
• Later developments performance art: from
1980s
• In general, original performance looses its
unique importance, becomes a component in
a process where photography is equally
important (this is a simplification of a much more comples process)
• Photography: equal partner in creating the
image

6. «Rest Energy»
Standing across
from one
another in slated
position. Looking
each other in the
eye. I hold a bow
and Ulay holds
the string with
the arrow
pointing directly
to my heart.
Microphones
attached to both
hearts recording
the increasing
number of heart
beats.
http://www.mediaartnet.org/works/rest-energy/
Marina Abramovic&Ulay,Rest Energy, 1980

7. performance/photography: changing
relationship
When actions are performed solely for the camera:
• the performance takes place within the picture
• photography can stand alone as a visual artifact
• can be equally ephemeral if projected onto a wall

8. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Presentation_of_Self_in_Everyday_Life

9. Nina Beier and Marie Lund
http://www.ninajanbeier-mariejanlund.com/
Les Sabots
Children of the 68’ generation are gathered to make a face towards the camera
for the duration of a roll of film; 16mm film, 5m

10. http://www.artnet.de/magazine/features/abc08/abc08_detail.asp?picnum=43&ourlang=

11. KaterinaSeda, There's Nothing There, 2003, Czech Republic)
Saturday in May 2003, Ponetovice. A village close to Brno in Czech Republic. KaterinaSeda
asked the inhabitants of the South-Moravian village to synchronise their daily routine so they
all did exactly the same things at exactly the same time. The action drew on the artist’s
research into the everyday life of the locals , and its aim was to make people do things
together and to show them – and the world – the village normality as a positive quality.

12. KateřinaŠedá, There Is Nothing There, action,24.5. 2003, Ponětovice. The artist asked all 300 of
Ponětovic’s inhabitants to follow the same routine for a whole day. So the citizens at the same
moment got up, went shopping, swept...
http://www.divus.cz/umelec/en/pages/umelec.php?id=1036&roc=2006&cis=1

13. George Hladík, my travel friends, 2005-2008, photography and video
http://www.georgeone.net/

14. http://www.timetchells.com/projects/performances/ten-people-smiling/

15. http://www.hugoglendinning.com/forcedentertainment.html

16. Hugo Glendinning, Forced Entertainment, 12am Awake and looking Down, Tate Modern 2003
http://www.hugoglendinning.com/forcedentertainment3.html

17. http://www.reginajosegalindo.com/
Regina José Galindo, Guatemala, 1974 El Brinco
Bautizoo ritual de iniciación con el cual se le da la bienvenida a un nuevointegrante de la mara.
(Bienal de Arte Paiz. Guatemala. 2008)

18. Regina José Galindo, Guatemala, 1974 El Brinco
Bautizoo ritual de iniciación con el cual se le da la bienvenida a un nuevointegrante de la mara.
(Bienal de Arte Paiz. Guatemala. 2008)

19. Regina José Galindo, Guatemala, 1974 El Brinco
Bautizoo ritual de iniciación con el cual se le da la bienvenida a un nuevointegrante de la mara.
(Bienal de Arte Paiz. Guatemala. 2008)

20. Regina José Galindo, Guatemala, 1974 El Brinco
Bautizoo ritual de iniciación con el cual se le da la bienvenida a un nuevointegrante de la mara.
(Bienal de Arte Paiz. Guatemala. 2008)

21. Regina José Galindo, Guatemala, 1974 El Brinco
Bautizoo ritual de iniciación con el cual se le da la bienvenida a un nuevointegrante de la mara.
(Bienal de Arte Paiz. Guatemala. 2008)

22. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defamiliarization

23. ElzbietaJablonska, Super Mother

24. http://www.culture.pl/en/culture/artykuly/os_jablonska_elzbieta

25. Martin Zet (CZ): quot;Confession Without Absolutionquot;

26. http://www.hugoglendinning.com/yinka.html

27. Guillermo Gomez-Peña and La Pocha Nostra – ‘The New Barbarians – Designers primitives
on the runaway, runaway’, 2007, Arnolfini, Bristol (UK)
http://www.carlaesperanza.com/carlaesperanzaCollaborations.php

28. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Uncanny

29. http://www.annafox.co.uk/arc/12.html

30. anna fox, country girls, 1996 – 2001, Published in Lindaannaalison.
First exhibited in Fair Play at Danielle Arnaud Gallery, London 2001

31. anna fox, country girls, 1996 – 2001, Published in Lindaannaalison.
First exhibited in Fair Play at Danielle Arnaud Gallery, London 2001

32. anna fox, country girls, 1996 – 2001, Published in Lindaannaalison.
First exhibited in Fair Play at Danielle Arnaud Gallery, London 2001

33. http://www.hmkv.de/dyn/e_program_exhibitions/detail.php?nr=2104

35. AernoutMik, Netherlands, b. 1962,lives and works in Amsterdam, Stills from Glutinosity
(2001) http://www.cca.rca.ac.uk/thismuchiscertain/exhib_mik.html

36. AernoutMik Vacuum Room (2005), still from video installation

37. AernoutMik, Training ground, 2007
http://www.citizensandsubjects.nl/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=15&Itemid=30

38. AernoutMik, Training ground, 2007
http://www.citizensandsubjects.nl/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=15&Itemid=30

39. AernoutMik, Mock up, installation, Dutch Pavillion, Venice Biennale 2007
http://www.citizensandsubjects.nl/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=15&Itemid=30

40. paularoush/msdm. Exercise sos:ok,performative installation, gallery p74,Ljubljana, 2004
http://www.msdm.org.uk/projects/2004-sosok-exercise/

41. paularoush/msdm. Exercise sos:ok, performative installation, gallery p74, Ljubljana, 2004

42. paularoush/msdm. Exercise sos:ok, performative installation, gallery p74, Ljubljana, 2004

43. Jeff Wall, Dead Troops Talk (a vision after an ambush of a Red Army patrol, near
Moqor, Afghanistan, winter 1986) 1992
http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/exhibitions/jeffwall/rooms/room8.shtm

44. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theatre_of_the_Oppressed

45. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theatre_of_the_Oppressed#Image_theatre

46. http://live-wirez.gu.edu.au/jea.papers/boland%20and%20cameron.rtf

47. Friday club, The Unvanquished City, London 2009

48. friday club
• contemporary re-enactement for site-specific commission:
Bicentenary of the Napoleonic Invasions exhibition in Quartel of
Serra do Pilar, Vila Nova de Gaia, 2009
• strategies:
re-enactement, image theatre, newspaper theatre (crossed
reading)
news sources:
– Napoleonic invasions
For having resisted a military invasion in the 19th century by the Imperial Napoleonic Armies, Porto
is now known as The Unvanquished City (A CidadeInvicta).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Porto
– Contemporary student movement in france
http://www.citizenside.com/fr/photos/manifestations/2009-02-19/13577/l-universite-manifeste-a-paris-
le-19-fevrier.html
– Sarkozy: The new Napoleon?
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/sarkozy-the-new-napoleon-1488656.html

49. Friday club, The Unvanquished City, London 2009, First exhibited in Bicentenary of the
Napoleonic Invasions, Quartel of Serra do Pilar, Vila Nova de Gaia, 2009

50. Friday club, The Unvanquished City, London 2009

51. Friday club, The Unvanquished City, London 2009

52. • Thank you!
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