Philosophy:Endurance art

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Short description: Kind of performance art involving hardship
Marina Abramović's The Artist is Present, 2010, Museum of Modern Art, New York. Abramović sat silently opposite museum visitors for eight hours a day for three months, a total of 750 hours.[1]
The artist Abel Azcona during The Death of The Artist at Círculo de Bellas Artes de Madrid

Endurance art is a kind of performance art involving some form of hardship, such as pain, solitude or exhaustion.[2] Performances that focus on the passage of long periods of time are also known as durational art or durational performances.[3]

Human endurance contests were a fad of Depression-era America from the 1920s-1930s.[4] Writer Michael Fallon traces the genre of endurance art to the work of Chris Burden in California in the 1970s.[5] Burden spent five days in a locker in Five Day Locker Piece (1971), had himself shot in Shoot (1971), and lived for 22 days in a bed in an art gallery in Bed Piece (1972).[6]

Other examples of endurance art include Tehching Hsieh's One Year Performance 1980–1981 (Time Clock Piece), in which for 12 months he punched a time clock every hour, and Art/Life One Year Performance 1983–1984 (Rope Piece), in which Hsieh and Linda Montano spent a year tied to each other by an eight-foot rope.[7]

In The House with the Ocean View (2003), Marina Abramović lived silently for 12 days without food or entertainment on a stage entirely open to the audience.[8] Such is the physical stamina required for some of her work that in 2012 she set up what she called a "boot camp" in Hudson, New York, for participants in her multiple-person performances.[9]

The Nine Confinements or The Deprivation of Liberty is a conceptual, endurance art and performative work of critical and biographical content by artist Abel Azcona. The artwork was a sequence of performances carried out between 2013 and 2016. All of the series had a theme of deprivation of liberty. The first in the series was performed by Azcona in 2013 and named Confinement in Search of Identity.[10] The artist was to remain for sixty days in a space built inside an art gallery of Madrid, with scarce food resources and in total darkness. The performance was stopped after forty-two days for health reasons and the artist hospitalised.[11] Azcona created these works as a reflection and also a discursive interruption of his own mental illness, mental illness being one of the recurring themes in Azcona's work.[12]

Examples

Tehching Hsieh spent a year in this cage in his studio in One Year Performance 1978–1979 (Cage Piece).
  • Marina Abramović[13] – Rhythm 0, 1974; Rhythm 5, 1974; Luminosity, 1997, 2010; Nude with Skeleton, 2002, 2005, 2010;[9] The House With the Ocean View (2003); Balkan Erotic Epic, 2005.[14]
  • Marina Abramović with Ulay[15] – Point of Contact, 1980;[9] Night Sea Crossing, 1981; The Lovers: Walk on the Great Wall, 1988.[16]
  • Vito Acconci – Seedbed, 1972.[17]
  • David Askevold – Fill, 1970.[18][19]
  • Abel Azcona - The Death of The Artist,[20] 2018. The Fathers, 2016. Amen or The Pederasty, 2015. Buried, 2015. Eating, 2012. The Nine Confinements or The Deprivation of Liberty, 2013-2016.
  • Stuart Brisley – And for today ... nothing, 1972.[21]
  • Chris Burden[15] – Five Day Locker Piece, 1971.
  • David Blaine[22] – Witness (1999),[23] Buried Alive, Frozen in Time, Vertigo, Above the Below, Drowned Alive, Revolution, Electrified , Ascension .
  • Jimmy Donaldson – Counting to 100,000, watching It's Everyday Bro for 10 hours, 50 hours buried alive, fasting for 30 days, 2016 - ongoing.
  • Nikhil Chopra, – Give Me Your Blood And I Will Give You Freedom, 2014.[24]
  • Houston Conwill – Juju Rituals, 1975–1983.[25]
  • Elevator Repair Service – Gatz, 2005.[24][26]
  • EJ Hill – A Monumental Offering of Potential Energy, 2016.[27][28][29][30]
  • Tehching Hsieh – One Year Performance 1978–1979 (Cage Piece); One Year Performance 1980–1981 (Time Clock Piece).[31][32]
  • Tehching Hsieh with Linda Montano – Art/Life One Year Performance 1983–1984 (Rope Piece).
  • Ragnar Kjartansson – A Lot of Sorrow, 2014.[33]
  • Stan Lai – A Dream Like A Dream, 2014.[24]
  • Eric Millikin – My Drinking Problem, 2016.[34][35]
  • Bruce Nauman – Stamping in the Studio, 1968; Revolving Upside Down, 1969.[18][36][37]
  • Bryan Lewis Saunders – Under the Influence, 2001;[38] Deaf Month, 2011;[39] While Being Tortured, 2014;[40] 30 Days Totally Blind, 2018.[41]
  • Carolee Schneeman – Up To And Including Her Limits, 1973—1976.[18]
  • Wolfgang Stoerchle – Attempt Public Erection, 1972–1975.[25]
  • Emma Sulkowicz – Mattress Performance (Carry That Weight), 2014–2015.[42][15]
  • Zhang Huan – 12 Square Meters, 1994.[43]
  • Benjamin Bennett – Sitting and Smiling, 2014 – ongoing.[44]
  • Guido Segni – A quiet desert failure, 2013 – ongoing.[45][46][47][48][49][50]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Elizabeth Greenwood, "Wait, Why Did That Woman Sit in the MoMA for 750 Hours?", The Atlantic, 2 July 2012.
  2. ↑ For artists in endurance performances "[q]uestioning the limits of their bodies," Tatiana A. Koroleva, Subversive Body in Performance Art, ProQuest, 2008, pp. 29, 44–46.
  3. ↑ Paul Allain, Jen Harvie, The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance, Routledge, 2014, p. 221. Other terms include duration art, live art or time-based art.

    Beth Hoffmann, "The Time of Live Art," in Deirdre Heddon, Jennie Klein (eds.), Histories and Practices of Live Art, Palgrave Macmillan, 2012, p. 47.
  4. ↑ https://www.historylink.org/file/5534
  5. ↑ Michael Fallon, Creating the Future: Art and Los Angeles in the 1970s, Counterpoint, 2014, p. 106: "Burden's performances were so widely observed that they took on a life beyond the artist, helping create a new art genre, 'endurance art' ..."
  6. ↑ Emily Anne Kuriyama, "Everything You Need to Know About Chris Burden's Art Through His Greatest Works", Complex, 2 October 2013.
  7. ↑ Andrew Taylor, "Tehching Hsieh: The artist who took the punches as they came", Sydney Morning Herald, 30 April 2014: "Don't try this endurance art at home. That is Tehching Hsieh's advice to artists inspired to emulate the five year-long performances he began in the late 1970s."
  8. ↑ Thomas McEvilley, "Performing the Present Tense – A recent piece by Marina Abramovic blended endurance art and Buddhist meditation," Art in America, 91(4), April 2003.
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 E. C. Feiss, "Endurance Performance: Post-2008", Afterall, 23 May 2012.
  10. ↑ García García, Oscar (July 12, 2013). "The artist Abel Azcona will remain locked up for sixty days without light.". Contemporary Art Platform. https://www.plataformadeartecontemporaneo.com/pac/el-artista-abel-azcona-permanecera-encerrado-durante-60-dias-sin-luz/. 
  11. ↑ Guisado, Paula (August 17, 2013). "An artist ends up in the hospital after 42 days emulating life in a placenta". El Mundo. https://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/2013/08/16/madrid/1376678549.html. 
  12. ↑ Corroto, Paula (June 16, 2019). "Abel Azcona: "I feel more a prostitute's son or mentally ill than an artist"". El Confidencial. https://www.elconfidencial.com/cultura/2019-06-16/entrevista-abel-azcona-que-me-detengan_2072923/. 
  13. ↑ Miriam Seidel, "Pioneer Of Endurance Art To Give Lecture", Philadelphia Inquirer, 3 December 1998.

    John Perreault, "Lady Gaga Rejected by Marina Abramović, Plus MoMA Sound", Artopia, 13 September 2013.
  14. ↑ Karen Rosenberg, "Provocateur: Marina Abramovic", New York Magazine, 12 December 2005.
  15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 15.2 Jillian Steinhauer, "Two Weeks Into Performance, Columbia Student Discusses the Weight of Her Mattress", Hyperallergic, 17 September 2014 (citing Jon Kessler).
  16. ↑ Paul Allain, Jen Harvie, The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance, Routledge, 2014, p. 15.
  17. ↑ John Perreault, "Lady Gaga Rejected by Marina Abramović, Plus MoMA Sound", Artopia, 13 September 2013.
  18. ↑ 18.0 18.1 18.2 Emily Vey Duke, Kevin Rodgers, "Two types of sacred: 1970s endurance art today", C Magazine, 22 June 2005.
  19. ↑ "David Askevold". https://www.umanitoba.ca/schools/art/content/galleryoneoneone/askevol.html. 
  20. ↑ Zas Marcos, Mónica (October 18, 2018). "Abel Azcona offers a gun to those who fantasize about killing him in his latest performance". El Diario.es. https://www.eldiario.es/cultura/arte/Abel-Azcona-pistola-asesinar-performance_0_826268095.html. 
  21. ↑ Dierdre Heddon, "The Politics of Live Art," in Heddon and Klein 2012, p. 87.
  22. ↑ Cindy Adams, "He'll stay awake the longest ever", New York Post, 5 December 2007.
  23. ↑ Linda M. Montano, Letters from Linda M. Montano, Routledge, 2012, p. 185.
  24. ↑ 24.0 24.1 24.2 Deepika Shetty, "Endurance art: Five memorable marathon performances", The Straits Times, 14 August 2013.
  25. ↑ 25.0 25.1 Karen Gonzalez Rice, "Sexing the Monk: Masculinity and Monastic Discipline in American Endurance Art Circa 1975", College Art Association Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, 12–15 February 2014.
  26. ↑ Trout Monfalco, "Endurance Art – Six Hours is Too Long", Art Here and Now, accessed 24 February 2014.
  27. ↑ The New York Times (15 September 2016). "What to See in New York Galleries This Week". The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/16/arts/design/what-to-see-in-new-york-galleries-this-week.html. 
  28. ↑ "Alive Someplace Better: EJ Hill's Horizontal Poetics by Amber Officer- Narvasa". http://www.arts.black/alive-someplace-better. 
  29. ↑ "Video: Studio Museum in Harlem Artists in Conversation". http://www.thegreenespace.org/story/video-webcast-studio-museum-harlem-artists-conversation/. 
  30. ↑ "EJ Hill: In Conversation with Nicole Kaack". http://sfaq.us/2016/11/ej-hill-in-conversation-with-nicole-kaack/. 
  31. ↑ "Tehching Hsieh: the man who didn't go to bed for a year" (in en). 2014-04-30. http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/australia-culture-blog/2014/apr/30/tehching-hsieh-the-man-who-didnt-go-to-bed-for-a-year. 
  32. ↑ John Perrault, "Tehching Hsieh: Caged Fury", Artopia, 1 February 2009.
  33. ↑ "Sorrow on repeat: Ragnar Kjartansson on endurance art", CBC, 20 January 2015; "Ragnar Kjartansson and The National A Lot of Sorrow ", Luhring Augustine.
  34. ↑ "Celebrations abound for Vernors' 150th anniversary: Pop Art" (in en). Detroit News. http://www.detroitnews.com/story/entertainment/dining/2016/06/01/celebrations-vernors-th-anniversary/85248080/. 
  35. ↑ "My Drinking Problem: Pumpkin Spice Odyessy" (in en-US). Eric Millikin. https://ericmillikin.com/home/eric-millikin-pumpkin-spice-drink-odyessy. 
  36. ↑ "Electronic Arts Intermix: Stamping in the Studio, Bruce Nauman". https://www.eai.org/titles/stamping-in-the-studio. 
  37. ↑ "Electronic Arts Intermix: Revolving Upside Down, Bruce Nauman". https://www.eai.org/titles/revolving-upside-down. 
  38. ↑ Ronson, Jon (2012-11-30). "Bryan Saunders: Portrait of the artist on crystal meth". The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2012/nov/30/bryan-saunders-artist-drugs-ronson. 
  39. ↑ "Bryan Lewis Saunders Deaf". 2018-04-13. https://artfully2017.wordpress.com/2018/04/13/bryan-lewis-saunders-deaf. 
  40. ↑ "Bryan Lewis Saunders Draws While Being Tortured". 2014-12-23. http://www.beautifuldecay.com/2014/12/23/bryan-lewis-saunders-draws-tortured/?view=true. 
  41. ↑ "30 days totally blind: Bryan Lewis Saunders". 2018-06-13. https://www.publicpressure.org/30-days-totally-blind-bryan-lewis-saunders/. 
  42. ↑ Roberta Smith, "In a Mattress, a Lever for Art and Political Protest", The New York Times, 22 September 2014.
  43. ↑ Hentyle Yapp, Verona Leung, "Revisiting performance art of the 1990s and the politics of meditation", Leap, 8 August 2013.
  44. ↑ Putney, Dean (7 October 2015). "Internet man sits and smiles at camera for hundreds of hours". Boing Boing. http://boingboing.net/2015/10/07/internet-man-sits-and-smiles-a.html. 
  45. ↑ (in en) A Quiet Desert Failure. http://desert.fail/ure. Retrieved 2018-01-23. 
  46. ↑ (in en) A Quiet Desert Failure. http://quietdesertfailure.tumblr.com/. Retrieved 2018-01-23. 
  47. ↑ "A Quiet Desert Failure, be patient, the desert is coming" (in en). http://neural.it/2016/02/a-quiet-desert-failure-be-patient-the-desert-is-coming/. 
  48. ↑ "A Quiet Desert Failure" (in en). http://festival.j-mediaarts.jp/en/works/art/a-quiet-desert-failure/. 
  49. ↑ "A Quiet Desert Failure" (in en). http://www.laboralcentrodearte.org/en/recursos/obras/a-quiet-desert-failure-2015/. 
  50. ↑ "Guido Segni's A quiet desert failure" (in en). 2015-11-25. https://www.furtherfield.org/guido-segnis-a-quiet-desert-failure/. 

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