Artes de acción: re-significación del cuerpo y el espacio urbano
Year: 2011
Type: article
Abstract: The article analyzes action arts such as performance, happening\nand body art, emphasizing on their achievements both\non artists and spectators and participants, when carried out in\nurban spaces amid recreational purposes. The author extends,\namong others, on the cultural, social, psychic, urban, and\npolitical importance and reach of playfulness as an essential\ncomponent of action arts: non-object-related works that provide\nthe human body with different meanings and serve like\nindividual and collective self-recognition devices. It analyzes the\ncity as scenario, as a non-discrimination space where artistic\nactions emerge as a subversive game that questions institutionalism\nand scrutinizes the whole apparatus accountable for the\nclassic and �even� modern art mystification that segregated\ncertain audiences and artists. It points out that we are living\nin a time of diversity, difference and multiculturalism, hence,\nrecognizing ourselves in artworks is getting to know something\nelse about ourselves and conquering one truth about the world\nand the place we inhabit: the city.
Source: REVISTA NODO
Author: Luis Manuel González-Victoria
Language: Spanish
Topic: Public Spaces through Art
Subfield: Urban Studies
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W2127690108