Body
Body Art is...
v Body art is not referring to piercings or tattoos
v Uses performance activity and does extreme actions to push body to its physical
limits (lots of strange, unique ways people perform with their body)
v Is made with, on, or consists the human body or parts of the human body
Examples of body art:
Janine Antoni: Loving
Care
In Loving Care, Janine Antoni
enters a white room, dips her
hair in a bucket of hair-dye, and
then paints the floor using her
hair as an art brush. While she
performs this, you can see the
process of hair-dye covering the
white floor until the whole floor
is covered. She uses her body in
a weird way when she paints
her hair since she has to drag
her hair with her head all over
the floor.
Janine Antoni: Loving Care 1993.
Performance using hair dye.
Stelarc: The Third Hand
Stelarc uses a mechanical third
hand and performs art with that
hand. He could write "evolution"
using all three of his hands and
this is body art since it consists of
using his arm with a tech arm.
Stelarc also implanted an ear to
his arm and could hear with that
artificial ear. He does extreme
actions that push his body to
physical limits with the power of
technology.
Stelarc: The Third Hand, 1980.
Robotic performance art.
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