Volume : VIII, Issue : II, February - 2019

Body in Performance Art

Ritesh Ranjan

Abstract :

This research paper is aimed to define and understand the role of body – the performer’s body/ physical body/virtual body/ hyid body in the context of its relation to the performance and its engagement with the audience/s in relation with time and space. Performance as a very recent development in the field of visual art/s is still defining/ developing its vocabulary and grammar as well as the artistic language; and negotiating with the different possible exploitations of human body as a tool and a medium of art practice/s at the same time. It is more or less accepted that Performance Art cannot do without the human form. The development of today performance art research has been motivated from the study of gesture, posture and, the sound of silence, and progressed into different areas of body investigation. This is the platform for a string of theoretical works in constant evolution and transformation. On the other hand, in many live performances, of which the essence is not what is said or shown, but how and what is communicated throughout the whole body as memane of spirit, voice, sound, said or written words, and video images are adopted only as vehicles for a poetry pure expression. Therefore it is consequential that here the body is considered as an unknown landscape that invites one to explore its hidden manifestation, while emotions, feelings, movements, and sensation due by them, are the unstoppable flowing stream that traverses it, which is somewhere aim of this research entitled ‘Body in Performance Art/Performative Act in Contemporary Indian Art’. In fact Action Art (Performance/Performative) is mainly a research to explore and lead the transformation. On the other hand, in many live performances, of which the essence is not what is said or shown, but how and what is communicated throughout the whole body as memane of spirit, voice, sound, said or written words, and video images are adopted only as vehicles for a poetry pure expression. The research is primarily based on some of the recent performances in India, but it is not only restricted in/at the same.

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BODY IN PERFORMANCE ART, Ritesh Ranjan GLOBAL JOURNAL FOR RESEARCH ANALYSIS : Volume-8 | Issue-2 | February-2019

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