Body Politic: 10 Radical Artists Who Use Dance as a Medium
WEBOct 31, 2017 · These ten artists, spanning from the founders of modern dance to contemporary artists, have and continue to wrestle with this notion, using dance to explore what it means to be a body in the world. MODERN DANCE AS VISUAL ART
What to Make of Marina Abramović, the Godmother of Performance Art
WEBOct 18, 2016 · What to Make of Marina Abramović, the Godmother of Performance Art. Is her body of work art, magic, theater or masochism?
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The Body in Art - MoMA
WEBPeople alter their bodies, hair, and clothing to align with or rebel against social conventions and to express messages to others around them. Many artists explore gender through representations of the body and by using their own bodies in their creative process.
Art and the theatre of mind and body: how contemporary arts …
WEBJan 12, 2010 · In this review I suggest that contemporary artists engaging with the body, and the corresponding biomedical and architectural spaces where the body is investigated, are engendering innovative and challenging artworks that stimulate new relationships between art and anatomy.
Physical Theatre: 3 Types of Physical Theatre - MasterClass
WEBFeb 23, 2022 · Physical theatre uses stylized bodily movement to tell a story. Learn more about the art form’s most common characteristics.
WEBPeterson's Disease, Diagnosis, and Cure on the Early Modern Stage signal increasing focus on both cultural and formal manifestations of the Renaissance anatomy theatre, on the heels of the notable rise in the sub-discipline of body criticism.
Contemporary Artists Are Liberating the Body from Restrictive Ideals
WEBJul 11, 2023 · Fragmented bodies, however, are fallible: a theme taken on by a current group show at London gallery Gathering. “Support Structures,” featuring 18 cross-generational artists and duos interrogating the human body …
Body As Medium. Between Theory And Technology Of Theatre
WEBAug 26, 2018 · In one of the most important books about theater theory, Samuel Weber states that theatricality, as the oldest form of dealing with the problem of the body and its presence, should be understood literally as a medium.
Performance Art Movement Overview | TheArtStory
WEBBody Art diffused the veil between artist and artwork by placing the body front and center as actor, medium, performance, and canvas amplifying the idea of authentic first person perspective. In the post-1960's atmosphere of changing social mores and thawed attitudes toward nudity, the body became a perfect tool to make the political personal.