In the beginning, I never really understood the whole performing arts. The whole performance and installation of art really expanded my experience of what I thought art was. It really made me appreciate what the artist does and the whole point that they are trying to get across throughout their performance.
Cornelia Parker, she is the most interesting of them all. It is very crazy on where she gets her ideas from and how she puts them to action. One of her works, really caught my attention. The art work is called Cold Dark Matter. It was a small shed and she exploded it and created an awesome art piece that just blows your mind!
Ann Hamilton is a very smart and creative woman. She loves working with threads and all different types of material. One of her art performances that best describes her would have be The Event of a Thread. She connected many sheets of cloths together by threads that were connected to swings! So when people would swing on them, the sheets would move creating a beautiful illusion. Many people even laid right under the sheet just to stare at its marvelous movements.
Marina Abramovic is another art performer who uses herself as a medium. One of the most known performances is called The Artist is Present. Which is ironic because in her performance, she sits on a table with volunteer audiences and they sit around the table just staring into each others eyes, without saying any words. It’s really as if she’s not there. Some lasted only 7 minutes, while others lasted hours. Many volunteers would even start crying at some point. Some believe its a type of therapy of some sort. Even though this performance is really different than many others, I’m not a huge fan of it because it doesn’t really intrigue my interest. But like they say, someone’s trash can be someone’s treasure.
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