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Body art :
Body art is art made on, with, or consisting of, the human body. The most common forms of body art are tattoos and body piercings, but other types include scarification, branding, scalpelling, shaping (for example tight-lacing of corsets), full body tattoo and body painting.
More extreme body art can involve things such as mutilation or pushing the body to its physical limits. For example, one of Marina Abramovic's works involved dancing until she collapsed from exhaustion, while one of Dennis Oppenheim's better-known works saw him lying in the sunlight with a book on his chest, until his skin, excluding that covered by the book, was badly sunburned. It can even consist of the arrangement and dissection of preserved bodies in an artistic fashion, as in the case of the plastinated bodies used in the travelling Body Worlds exhibit.
In Western art, body art appears to be a sub-category of performance art, in which artists use or abuse their own body to make their particular statements.
In more recent times, body became a subject of much broader discussions and treatments that cannot be reduced to the body art in its common understanding. Important strategies that question the human body are: implants, body in symbiosis with the new technologies, virtual body etc. A special case of the body art strategies is the absence of body. The most important artists that performed the "absence" of body through their artwoks were: Keith Arnatt, Andy Warhol, Anthony Gormley and Davor Džalto.
Examples of body art
Vito Acconci once documented, through photos and text, his daily exercise routine of stepping on and off a chair for as long as possible over several months. Acconci also performed a 'Following Piece', in which he followed randomly chosen New Yorkers.
Chris Burden actually had an assistant shoot him in the arm in his piece ‘Shoot’ (1971), which was observed by a live audience. This was documented in an eight-second video and is a notorious example of video art as well as performance art. In ‘Through the Night Softly' (1973), Burden crawled naked through broken glass, which he saw as stars in the sky, and turned the video footage into a ten-second commercial that was aired on television. In ‘Locker’, he spent five days jammed into a 2' x 2' x 3' locker at UCLA; in ‘Sculpture in Three Parts’ (1974), he sat on an upright chair on a sculpture pedestal for 48 hours, until he fell off due to exhaustion; in ‘White Light/White Heat’ (1975), he spent 22 days alone and invisible to the public on a high platform in a gallery, neither eating, speaking, seeing or being seen. Most of these performances are known only through photographs or short video clips.
The Vienna Action Group was formed in 1965 by Herman Nitsch, Otto Muhl, Gunter Brus and Rudolf Schwartzkogler. They performed several body art actions, usually involving social taboos (such as genital mutilation).
Marina Abramovic performed ‘Rhythm O’ in 1974. In the piece, the audience was given instructions to use on Abramovic's body an array of 72 provided instruments of pain and pleasure, including knives, feathers, and a loaded pistol. Audience members cut her, pressed thorns into her belly, and also held the gun up to her head. The performance ended as scheduled after 6 hours. [1]
The movement gradually evolved to the works more directed in the personal mythologies, as at Jana Sterbak, Youri Messen-Jaschin, Rebecca Horn or Javier Perez.
Jake Lloyd Jones a Sydney based artist conceived a body art ride which has become an annual event, participants are painted to form a living rainbow that rides to the Pacific Ocean and immerses itself in the waves, Sydney Body Art Ride...
Wikipedia
Body art is art made on, with, or consisting of, the human body. The most common forms of body art are tattoos and body piercings, but other types include scarification, branding, scalpelling, shaping (for example tight-lacing of corsets), full body tattoo and body painting.
More extreme body art can involve things such as mutilation or pushing the body to its physical limits. For example, one of Marina Abramovic's works involved dancing until she collapsed from exhaustion, while one of Dennis Oppenheim's better-known works saw him lying in the sunlight with a book on his chest, until his skin, excluding that covered by the book, was badly sunburned. It can even consist of the arrangement and dissection of preserved bodies in an artistic fashion, as in the case of the plastinated bodies used in the travelling Body Worlds exhibit.
In Western art, body art appears to be a sub-category of performance art, in which artists use or abuse their own body to make their particular statements.
In more recent times, body became a subject of much broader discussions and treatments that cannot be reduced to the body art in its common understanding. Important strategies that question the human body are: implants, body in symbiosis with the new technologies, virtual body etc. A special case of the body art strategies is the absence of body. The most important artists that performed the "absence" of body through their artwoks were: Keith Arnatt, Andy Warhol, Anthony Gormley and Davor Džalto.
Examples of body art
Vito Acconci once documented, through photos and text, his daily exercise routine of stepping on and off a chair for as long as possible over several months. Acconci also performed a 'Following Piece', in which he followed randomly chosen New Yorkers.
Chris Burden actually had an assistant shoot him in the arm in his piece ‘Shoot’ (1971), which was observed by a live audience. This was documented in an eight-second video and is a notorious example of video art as well as performance art. In ‘Through the Night Softly' (1973), Burden crawled naked through broken glass, which he saw as stars in the sky, and turned the video footage into a ten-second commercial that was aired on television. In ‘Locker’, he spent five days jammed into a 2' x 2' x 3' locker at UCLA; in ‘Sculpture in Three Parts’ (1974), he sat on an upright chair on a sculpture pedestal for 48 hours, until he fell off due to exhaustion; in ‘White Light/White Heat’ (1975), he spent 22 days alone and invisible to the public on a high platform in a gallery, neither eating, speaking, seeing or being seen. Most of these performances are known only through photographs or short video clips.
The Vienna Action Group was formed in 1965 by Herman Nitsch, Otto Muhl, Gunter Brus and Rudolf Schwartzkogler. They performed several body art actions, usually involving social taboos (such as genital mutilation).
Marina Abramovic performed ‘Rhythm O’ in 1974. In the piece, the audience was given instructions to use on Abramovic's body an array of 72 provided instruments of pain and pleasure, including knives, feathers, and a loaded pistol. Audience members cut her, pressed thorns into her belly, and also held the gun up to her head. The performance ended as scheduled after 6 hours. [1]
The movement gradually evolved to the works more directed in the personal mythologies, as at Jana Sterbak, Youri Messen-Jaschin, Rebecca Horn or Javier Perez.
Jake Lloyd Jones a Sydney based artist conceived a body art ride which has become an annual event, participants are painted to form a living rainbow that rides to the Pacific Ocean and immerses itself in the waves, Sydney Body Art Ride...
Wikipedia
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Model: Morgan Davis
MUA: Allison McBride
Assistant: Andrée De Villers
Location: Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada
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Body art from Chad
© photography by Marie-Laure De Decker
The Woodabés "men of the ban," Peuls of southern Chad, are among the last nomads of Africa.
Body art from Ethiopia
© photography by Hans-Silvester
In the confines of Ethiopia, three days of track Addid Ababa, Travel among the peoples of the Omo.
Body art from Ethiopia
© photography by Hans-Silvester
In the confines of Ethiopia, three days of track Addid Ababa, Travel among the peoples of the Omo.
Body art from Ethiopia
© photography by Hans-Silvester
In the confines of Ethiopia, three days of track Addid Ababa, Travel among the peoples of the Omo.
Body art from Ethiopia
© photography by Hans-Silvester
In the confines of Ethiopia, three days of track Addid Ababa, Travel among the peoples of the Omo.
Body art from Ethiopia
© photography by Hans-Silvester
In the confines of Ethiopia, three days of track Addid Ababa, Travel among the peoples of the Omo.
Body art from Ethiopia
© photography by Hans-Silvester
In the confines of Ethiopia, three days of track Addid Ababa, Travel among the peoples of the Omo.
Body art from Ethiopia
© photography by Hans-Silvester
In the confines of Ethiopia, three days of track Addid Ababa, Travel among the peoples of the Omo.
Body art from Ethiopia
© photography by Hans-Silvester
In the confines of Ethiopia, three days of track Addid Ababa, Travel among the peoples of the Omo.
Body art from Ethiopia
© photography by Hans-Silvester
In the confines of Ethiopia, three days of track Addid Ababa, Travel among the peoples of the Omo.
Body art from Ethiopia
© photography by Hans-Silvester
In the confines of Ethiopia, three days of track Addid Ababa, Travel among the peoples of the Omo.
Body art from Ethiopia
© photography by Hans-Silvester
In the confines of Ethiopia, three days of track Addid Ababa, Travel among the peoples of the Omo.
Body art from Ethiopia
© photography by Hans-Silvester
In the confines of Ethiopia, three days of track Addid Ababa, Travel among the peoples of the Omo.
Body art from Ethiopia
© photography by Hans-Silvester
In the confines of Ethiopia, three days of track Addid Ababa, Travel among the peoples of the Omo.
Body art from Ethiopia
© photography by Hans-Silvester
In the confines of Ethiopia, three days of track Addid Ababa, Travel among the peoples of the Omo.
Body art from Ethiopia
© photography by Hans-Silvester
In the confines of Ethiopia, three days of track Addid Ababa, Travel among the peoples of the Omo.
Body art from Ethiopia
© photography by Hans-Silvester
In the confines of Ethiopia, three days of track Addid Ababa, Travel among the peoples of the Omo.
Body art from Ethiopia
© photography by Hans-Silvester
In the confines of Ethiopia, three days of track Addid Ababa, Travel among the peoples of the Omo.
Body art from Ethiopia
© photography by Hans-Silvester
In the confines of Ethiopia, three days of track Addid Ababa, Travel among the peoples of the Omo.
Body art from Ethiopia
© photography by Hans-Silvester
In the confines of Ethiopia, three days of track Addid Ababa, Travel among the peoples of the Omo.
Body art from Ethiopia
© photography by Hans-Silvester
In the confines of Ethiopia, three days of track Addid Ababa, Travel among the peoples of the Omo.
Body art from Ethiopia
© photography by Hans-Silvester
In the confines of Ethiopia, three days of track Addid Ababa, Travel among the peoples of the Omo.
Body art from Ethiopia
© photography by Hans-Silvester
In the confines of Ethiopia, three days of track Addid Ababa, Travel among the peoples of the Omo.
Body art from Ethiopia
© photography by Hans-Silvester
In the confines of Ethiopia, three days of track Addid Ababa, Travel among the peoples of the Omo.
Body art from Ethiopia
© photography by Hans-Silvester
In the confines of Ethiopia, three days of track Addid Ababa, Travel among the peoples of the Omo.
Body art from Ethiopia
© photography by Hans-Silvester
In the confines of Ethiopia, three days of track Addid Ababa, Travel among the peoples of the Omo.
Body art from Ethiopia
© photography by Hans-Silvester
In the confines of Ethiopia, three days of track Addid Ababa, Travel among the peoples of the Omo.
Body art from Ethiopia
© photography by Hans-Silvester
In the confines of Ethiopia, three days of track Addid Ababa, Travel among the peoples of the Omo.
Body art from Ethiopia
© photography by Hans-Silvester
In the confines of Ethiopia, three days of track Addid Ababa, Travel among the peoples of the Omo.
Body art from Ethiopia
© photography by Hans-Silvester
In the confines of Ethiopia, three days of track Addid Ababa, Travel among the peoples of the Omo.
Body art from Ethiopia
© photography by Hans-Silvester
In the confines of Ethiopia, three days of track Addid Ababa, Travel among the peoples of the Omo.
Body art from Ethiopia
© photography by Hans-Silvester
In the confines of Ethiopia, three days of track Addid Ababa, Travel among the peoples of the Omo.
Body art from Ethiopia
© photography by Hans-Silvester
In the confines of Ethiopia, three days of track Addid Ababa, Travel among the peoples of the Omo.
Body art from Ethiopia
© photography by Hans-Silvester
In the confines of Ethiopia, three days of track Addid Ababa, Travel among the peoples of the Omo.
Body art from Ethiopia
© photography by Hans-Silvester
In the confines of Ethiopia, three days of track Addid Ababa, Travel among the peoples of the Omo.
Body art from Ethiopia
© photography by Hans-Silvester
In the confines of Ethiopia, three days of track Addid Ababa, Travel among the peoples of the Omo.
Body art from Ethiopia
© photography by Hans-Silvester
In the confines of Ethiopia, three days of track Addid Ababa, Travel among the peoples of the Omo.
Body art from Ethiopia
© photography by Hans-Silvester
In the confines of Ethiopia, three days of track Addid Ababa, Travel among the peoples of the Omo.
Body art from Ethiopia
© photography by Hans-Silvester
In the confines of Ethiopia, three days of track Addid Ababa, Travel among the peoples of the Omo.
Body art from Ethiopia
© photography by Hans-Silvester
In the confines of Ethiopia, three days of track Addid Ababa, Travel among the peoples of the Omo.
Body art from Ethiopia
© photography by Hans-Silvester
In the confines of Ethiopia, three days of track Addid Ababa, Travel among the peoples of the Omo.
Body art from Ethiopia
© photography by Hans-Silvester
In the confines of Ethiopia, three days of track Addid Ababa, Travel among the peoples of the Omo.
Body art from Ethiopia
© photography by Hans-Silvester
In the confines of Ethiopia, three days of track Addid Ababa, Travel among the peoples of the Omo.
Body art from Ethiopia
© photography by Hans-Silvester
In the confines of Ethiopia, three days of track Addid Ababa, Travel among the peoples of the Omo.
Body art from Ethiopia
© photography by Hans-Silvester
In the confines of Ethiopia, three days of track Addid Ababa, Travel among the peoples of the Omo.
Body art from Ethiopia
© photography by Hans-Silvester
In the confines of Ethiopia, three days of track Addid Ababa, Travel among the peoples of the Omo.
Body art from Ethiopia
© photography by Hans-Silvester
In the confines of Ethiopia, three days of track Addid Ababa, Travel among the peoples of the Omo.
Body art from Ethiopia
© photography by Hans-Silvester
In the confines of Ethiopia, three days of track Addid Ababa, Travel among the peoples of the Omo.
Body art from Ethiopia
© photography by Hans-Silvester
In the confines of Ethiopia, three days of track Addid Ababa, Travel among the peoples of the Omo.
Body art from Ethiopia
© photography by Hans-Silvester
In the confines of Ethiopia, three days of track Addid Ababa, Travel among the peoples of the Omo.
Body art from Ethiopia
© photography by Hans-Silvester
In the confines of Ethiopia, three days of track Addid Ababa, Travel among the peoples of the Omo.
Body art from Ethiopia
© photography by Hans-Silvester
In the confines of Ethiopia, three days of track Addid Ababa, Travel among the peoples of the Omo.
Body art from Ethiopia
© photography by Hans-Silvester
In the confines of Ethiopia, three days of track Addid Ababa, Travel among the peoples of the Omo.
Body art from Ethiopia
© photography by Hans-Silvester
In the confines of Ethiopia, three days of track Addid Ababa, Travel among the peoples of the Omo.
Body art from Ethiopia
© photography by Hans-Silvester
In the confines of Ethiopia, three days of track Addid Ababa, Travel among the peoples of the Omo.
Body art from Ethiopia
© photography by Hans-Silvester
In the confines of Ethiopia, three days of track Addid Ababa, Travel among the peoples of the Omo.
Body art from Ethiopia
© photography by Hans-Silvester
In the confines of Ethiopia, three days of track Addid Ababa, Travel among the peoples of the Omo.
Body art from Ethiopia
© photography by Hans-Silvester
In the confines of Ethiopia, three days of track Addid Ababa, Travel among the peoples of the Omo.
Body art from Ethiopia
© photography by Hans-Silvester
In the confines of Ethiopia, three days of track Addid Ababa, Travel among the peoples of the Omo.
Body art from Ethiopia
© photography by Hans-Silvester
In the confines of Ethiopia, three days of track Addid Ababa, Travel among the peoples of the Omo.
Body art from Ethiopia
© photography by Hans-Silvester
In the confines of Ethiopia, three days of track Addid Ababa, Travel among the peoples of the Omo.
Body art from Ethiopia
© photography by Hans-Silvester
In the confines of Ethiopia, three days of track Addid Ababa, Travel among the peoples of the Omo.
Body art from Ethiopia
© photography by Hans-Silvester
In the confines of Ethiopia, three days of track Addid Ababa, Travel among the peoples of the Omo.
Body art from Ethiopia
© photography by Hans-Silvester
In the confines of Ethiopia, three days of track Addid Ababa, Travel among the peoples of the Omo.
Body art from Ethiopia
© photography by Hans-Silvester
In the confines of Ethiopia, three days of track Addid Ababa, Travel among the peoples of the Omo.
Body art from Ethiopia
© photography by Hans-Silvester
In the confines of Ethiopia, three days of track Addid Ababa, Travel among the peoples of the Omo.
Body art from Ethiopia
© photography by Hans-Silvester
In the confines of Ethiopia, three days of track Addid Ababa, Travel among the peoples of the Omo.
Body art from Ethiopia
© photography by Hans-Silvester
In the confines of Ethiopia, three days of track Addid Ababa, Travel among the peoples of the Omo.
Body art from Ethiopia
© photography by Hans-Silvester
In the confines of Ethiopia, three days of track Addid Ababa, Travel among the peoples of the Omo.
Body art from Ethiopia
© photography by Hans-Silvester
In the confines of Ethiopia, three days of track Addid Ababa, Travel among the peoples of the Omo.
Sunday, August 10, 2008
Body art from Ethiopia
© photography by Hans-Silvester
In the confines of Ethiopia, three days of track Addid Ababa, Travel among the peoples of the Omo.
