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Re: boring PERFORMANCE ART...
At 5:29 PM -0800 3/18/03, JAMES FOWLER, III wrote:
>i already hate both performance art and modern dance!
There is good and bad performance art and there is good and bad
dance, just like any other art form (there is even good and bad
looping!).
Performance art is a very broad field of art practice. When someone
claims to hate performance art, does this mean he/she is familiar
with (and hates) Vito Acconci AND Rachel Rosenthal AND Laurie
Anderson AND Tim Miller AND Laurie Anderson AND Chris Burden AND Bob
and Bob AND Eleanor Antin AND Meredith Monk AND Daryl Sapien AND
Barbara Smith AND the Kipper Kids AND Teh-Ching Hsieh AND Linda
Montana AND Marina Abramovic AND Sasha Higbie AND Allan Kaprow AND
The Art Guys AND John Fleck AND Diamanda Galas AND Guillermo
Gomez-Pena AND Annie Sprinkle AND Stelarc AND Survival Research Labs
AND Hanna Wilke...
And what about "modern dance"? Does this include ONLY Martha Graham
and her antecedents (such as Isadora Duncan and Mary Wigman) and her
emulators (whom I don't much care for myself, so I don't offer
examples) or does it also include the post-modern dance artists who
were reacting AGAINST modern dance? What about the Judson Group, for
instance (Yvonne Rainer, Simone Forti, Steve Paxton, Trisha Brown, et
al.)? What about contemporary dance theater such as that presented at
DTW? What about Merce Cunningam? Or interactive media artists such as
Troika Ranch or CASSIEL?
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