Performance artist: BODY as material vivified by CONSCIOUSNESS in POIESIS
ARTIST STATEMENT
I believe that Art and Life can be inextricably connected and ultimately my artistic projects are aimed at discovering opportunities to uncover this connection, whilst advocating an aesthetic of authenticity.
The main questions at the base of my artistic discourse are several but conjoined.
How can we look at mundane actions or situations from our daily life in a different way, maybe merely poetic or maybe susceptible to generate in us reflections or questions? How can we delve deeper into our life and extract its hidden beauty, its profound truth, its inherent art? And ultimately, how can we live this precious moment more fully, more consciously?
The heart of my aesthetics is necessarily one where beauty walks alongside truth, in the streamlined and essential mundanity of materials, in the apparent repetitiveness of actions, in the gentle provocation of the other, in the proposition to look at life differently, together.
This consistent, insistent artistic research picks up individual topics from the irresistible stimuli received from quotidian life. At the moment I am focusing on the action of breathing and how this repetitive cycle - begun with the first inspiration taken outside of the maternal womb - will end with a final expiration at the moment of our passing. I am exploring materials and actions that could allow me to isolate the expiration.
Daniela Beltrani
Rome, 20 March 2022
I believe that Art and Life can be inextricably connected and ultimately my artistic projects are aimed at discovering opportunities to uncover this connection, whilst advocating an aesthetic of authenticity.
The main questions at the base of my artistic discourse are several but conjoined.
How can we look at mundane actions or situations from our daily life in a different way, maybe merely poetic or maybe susceptible to generate in us reflections or questions? How can we delve deeper into our life and extract its hidden beauty, its profound truth, its inherent art? And ultimately, how can we live this precious moment more fully, more consciously?
The heart of my aesthetics is necessarily one where beauty walks alongside truth, in the streamlined and essential mundanity of materials, in the apparent repetitiveness of actions, in the gentle provocation of the other, in the proposition to look at life differently, together.
This consistent, insistent artistic research picks up individual topics from the irresistible stimuli received from quotidian life. At the moment I am focusing on the action of breathing and how this repetitive cycle - begun with the first inspiration taken outside of the maternal womb - will end with a final expiration at the moment of our passing. I am exploring materials and actions that could allow me to isolate the expiration.
Daniela Beltrani
Rome, 20 March 2022
THIS is Performance Art by Marilyn Arsem (2011)
Performance art is now.
Performance art is live.
Performance art reveals itself in the present.
The artist engages in the act of creation as s/he performs.
Performance art’s manifestation and outcome cannot be known in advance. Re-enactment of historical work is theater, not performance art.
Performance art is real.
Performance art operates on a human scale.
It exists on the same plane as those who witness it. The artist uses real materials and real actions.
The artist is no one other than her/himself.
There are no boundaries between art and life.
The time is only now.
The place is only here.
Performance art requires risk.
The artists take physical risks using their bodies.
The artists take psychic risks as they confront their limits.
Witnessing a performances challenges an audience’s own sense of self.
Sponsoring performance art, with its unpredictability, requires taking risks. Failure is always possible.
Performance art is not an investment object.
The work cannot be separated from the maker.
It cannot be held.
It cannot be saved.
It cannot be reproduced.
Performance art is experience – shared time and space and actions between people.
The record of performance art resides in the bodies of the artist and the witnesses.
Performance art is ephemeral.
It is an action created by an artist for a specific time and place.
Witnesses are privy to a unique experience that will never happen again.
Performance art reveals the vulnerability of living.
Performance art reminds us that life is fleeting.
We are only here now.
Originally published 2011 at www.infractionvenice.org
Performance art is now.
Performance art is live.
Performance art reveals itself in the present.
The artist engages in the act of creation as s/he performs.
Performance art’s manifestation and outcome cannot be known in advance. Re-enactment of historical work is theater, not performance art.
Performance art is real.
Performance art operates on a human scale.
It exists on the same plane as those who witness it. The artist uses real materials and real actions.
The artist is no one other than her/himself.
There are no boundaries between art and life.
The time is only now.
The place is only here.
Performance art requires risk.
The artists take physical risks using their bodies.
The artists take psychic risks as they confront their limits.
Witnessing a performances challenges an audience’s own sense of self.
Sponsoring performance art, with its unpredictability, requires taking risks. Failure is always possible.
Performance art is not an investment object.
The work cannot be separated from the maker.
It cannot be held.
It cannot be saved.
It cannot be reproduced.
Performance art is experience – shared time and space and actions between people.
The record of performance art resides in the bodies of the artist and the witnesses.
Performance art is ephemeral.
It is an action created by an artist for a specific time and place.
Witnesses are privy to a unique experience that will never happen again.
Performance art reveals the vulnerability of living.
Performance art reminds us that life is fleeting.
We are only here now.
Originally published 2011 at www.infractionvenice.org
