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Displays include documentation of performances as well as examples of his work in such media as painting, sculpture, film and video.
In the past, performance artists have often sold photographic or video documentation of performances, say, or props and other artifacts left over after the events.
The artist's first U.S. retrospective — and the Asia Society's first exhibition devoted to a living artist — includes several of these massive objects, along with evocative prints made using incense ash collected from temples, and photographs and video documentation of performances.
Museums have long collected documentation of performances — the Abramovic retrospective will intermingle sound pieces, videotapes and photographs with live works — and some visionary institutions (the Tate Modern and the Walker Art Center, among them) have started acquiring the events themselves, restaging them on terms laid out by the artist.
The centerpiece of the exhibition, which featured archival video and photographic documentation of performances from her 30 year career, as well as several live in-gallery "reperformances," was a three month long performance by the artist herself, aptly titled The Artist is Present.
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Collaborating with video artists Hana Miller and Jacob Perkins, Eke told Guardian Australia she was interested in exploring the "tensions in the performance and documentation of performance".
In addition to featuring documentation of performance art, the show includes numerous examples of other, related experimental art forms, including conceptual art, installation, happenings, actions, body art and a wide variety of feminist and political art activities.
In the past, institutions and collectors only acquired photo or video documentation of performance art.
Documentation of performance is needed in order to demonstrate competency in school, to acquire and maintain employment, for career advances, and especially in areas where the cost of failure is unacceptable, such as in medicine, protective services, and the military.
PAULINE OLIVEROS: Recordings, for me, are usually documentations of performances.
For many opera buffs, the historical documentation of legendary performances may be the main point of the exercise.
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