Transcript Dia 1 - FACMU

Post-modern Performance art
is totally independent
the performance is in front of an audience or
the audience becomes the performers
The performance may be scripted or improvisational
The perfomance incorporates music, dance or complete silence
The audience buy tickets for the performance or
the performance is be free or
the performer pay the audience to watch the performance
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Performance art can happen anywhere, at any time, or for any
length of time. Performance art can be any situation that
involves four basic elements: time, space, the performer's body
and a relationship between performer and audience.
Postmodernism is a reaction on Modernism
PoMo has its origin in the failure of Modern
Architecture. Postmodernists felt the buildings
failed to meet human need for comfort, both
physically & sensory (‘for the eye’).
Modernists did not account for the desire for
beauty.
Postmodernists sought to cure this by
Monotonous apartment blocks
changed into slums
reintroducing ornament & decoration
Characteristics of
Modern Architecture
• a rejection of historical styles as a source of form
• a rejection of ornament & decoration & “unnecessary” detail
• functions & materials determine the result: ‘form follows function’
• simplification of form, expressed structure: machine aesthetics
Postmodernism & Modernism
1. rejection of strict rules
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pragmatic/dogmatic
2. ornament & reference
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rejection of decoration
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revolution
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machines for
living & working
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communality & mass product
3. communication
4. customer/user responsive
5. context & uniqueness
Postmodernism
versus Modernism
Modernism is:
Postmodernism is:
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minimalist
anonymous
monotonous
boring
cluttered
vulgar
frivolous
“kitsch”
Mies van der Rohe: “less is more”
Robert Venturi: “less is a bore”
…but what was going on…what were people doing?
Rock ‘n roll was not only a style of music or dance
It was a
lifestyle
with an own
Communication & social behaviour
Using public space to express political opinions
An other style
Of communication
With the use of public space
Flower power for peace
‘Bed-in’ a performance of
John lennon & yoko ono
In the hilton hotel in
amsterdam
woodstock
1969
Rejection of strict rules
Sexual revolution
the sexual revolution and its consequences…
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Sexuality became a new social movement
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Shifts in the relations between women & men
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women’s liberation movement
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women’s presence in public
sexual expression
the gay & lesbian movement
Today's Life style has
changed performance from A special event at a
particular place to
daily excItement &
E n t e r t a I n m e n t:
While doing our shopping, at the same
Time we are watching a performance and
“Loose” no time
adventure, having fun…
Shops are performance spaces
Shopping is an
“Time is money”
Time does not exist in shopping malls…they make
Use of attractions & performances to keep public
As long as possible Inside of the malls
‘living in a shopping mall and sleeping next door’
We see more performances per day than we know
The performance of public space is
The
power of public space
Today's Life style
is
Fast (a lot of information at the same time)
Flashy (means high sensory stimulation)
Digital (no space-dependence – digital nomads)
new experience of:
•Communication
•Distance
•Tempo of life
Quantity
of functions
Mass production & mass attraction
Old fashioned is in!
Quality
no impersonal, soulless mass products
…making photographs
What is next???
Trends & hypes…
Being ‘up to date’
Identity…
Belonging to
Mass media is performing an illusion with
tremendous impact on social behaviour
functional
performance
Referring to other periods of history
And mixing them together
Famous architects
designing
Performance spaces…
A new ‘hype’?
“Choreographers ‘teaming up’ with
Famous architects for fluidity
Of dance & cyberscape”(?)
“Form follows function”
“form follows fun”
“…???...”
‘the dream of
vision’
Architecture is not purely visual, intellectual
Or conceptual…it should stimulate
all senses
Design with your senses For the senses
Design with your senses For the senses
“Form follows senses”
Reading reference
’the eyes of the skin’ ……… Juhani pallasmaa
‘The language of space’……bryan lawson
‘the architect's eye’………….tom porter
Performance “involved in space”