The paradox of stillness : art, object, and performance / edited by Vincenzo de Bellis ; with contributions by Manuel Cirauqui, Jadine Collingwood, Hendrik Folkerts, Emma Lavigne, Catherine Wood.
"Published on the occasion of the exhibition The Paradox of Stillness : Art, Object, and Performance, curated by Vincenzo de Bellis and organized by the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis." Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Foreword / Mary Ceruti -- Acknowledgments / Vincenzo de Bellis -- So still ... and yet it moves ... / Vincenzo de Bellis -- Plates. I. From inanimate to animate -- The mobile stage : from Oskar Schlemmer to Haegue Yang / Emma Lavigne -- Plates. II. Performing objects vs. staged bodies -- Motion thickness : object performance and the agency of things / Manuel Cirauqui -- Obstinate, uncooperative, withdrawn: Performance objects / Jadine Collingwood -- Plates III. Between living pictures and still life -- The bell tolls : live performance on the edge of deadness in the anthropocene / Catherine Wood -- Plates. IV. Out of the frame and off of the stage -- Still living / Hendrik Folkerts -- Works in the exhibition.
Summary:
"Presenting works from the early 20th century to today, The Paradox of Stillness: Art, Object, and Performance examines the notion of stillness as both a performative and visual gesture, featuring practitioners who have constructed static or near-static experiments that hover somewhere between action and representation as they are experienced in the gallery space. The exhibition investigates performance from the perspective of the object rather than the body, examining how performance has reinterpreted traditional artistic media. Stillness and permanence are qualities typically seen as inherent to painting and sculpture-consider the frozen gestures of a historical tableau or the unyielding solidity of a bronze figure. The Paradox of Stillness, however, expands the artwork's quality of stillness to accommodate uncertain temporalities and physical states, investigating works that merge objects with human bodies suspended in motion. Featuring artists whose works include performative elements but also embrace acts, objects, and gestures that refer more to the inert qualities of painting or sculpture than to true staged action, The Paradox of Stillness rethinks the history of performance through its aesthetic investigations into the interplay of the fixed image and the live body"-- Provided by publisher
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