My question now is: How can performance art be more relatable to wider audiences?
This Monday, which is the public holiday, I went to CSM to see NuMoment Nutalents, which is a music show with artistic installation. Tuesday I had a very useful lecture on how to do presentation and storytelling by Sasha. I was impressed once again and gained self-confidence to get rid of slides. On Friday, I went to Goldsmiths to watch RE-ALIGNMENTS: BA Curating degree show 2024. This Saturday, I went to a blindfolded dance movement workshop near elephant and castle. I tried to open up my body but find it hard to fully trust the surroundings when I am blindfolded. But I do get to know new people and gain new experience from it. I challenged myself to make the movement bigger and by doing that I am doing a bit better than when I first step in the classroom. And on Sunday I watched a Chinese stand-up comedy show, trying to refresh my mind with a more speaking-related performance. This week, I searched Marina Abramović and watched some performance art on the app RED, and I found some very interesting and life related performance art which gave me inspirations of my intervension. And I also had a conbersation with my classmate, she gave me a very different point of view by pointing out she actually wants art to be abstract because she can feel all the feeling without the pressure of feeling the very “real world” thing, and she thinks that if art is required to be relatable to wider audience, that also limits artists a lot. That made me think deeper of my question, how can I balance the accessibility of the wider audience towards art and not to limit the expression of the artist and not to spoil another part of audience who wants abstract art.
For my intervention, I thought about 4 versions and decided on the last one.
Version 1: Create 2 pieces of performance art in the same theme, one is abstract and another is more life-related. Record it and use laptop to present it.
Version 2: Make video, use my word to reinterpret abstract art in a funny light way, make the video replace the written introduction beside the artifact.
Version 3: Record a video using abstract body movement to express that a lot of kids look at my hand especially in public transportations. They whisper to their parents in their own way, which is a very loud whisper, then more people look at me. I want to record my inner feeling and my own feedback in an abstract way, then link my laptop with a headset, if you only watch without the headset, you may not understand or have your own understanding, but if you put on the headset, you can hear me tell you what I am expressing in a funny light way which is very different from what you see.
Version 4: New Possibilities of giving somebody the finger. Interactive performance art. Let the audience choose a middle finger for me so I can curse people with my right hand, they can use anything, either provided objects here or any other things. Reinterprete the action of give the finger.
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