| Above: Reporters
from the American Life magazine photographing Shiraga Kazuo
participating in the “One-Day-Only Outdoor Exhibition
(Ruins Exhibition)” at the Yoshihara Oil Mill Nishinomiya
Refinery, April 1956. Photographer unknown. © The former
members of the Gutai Art Association. Courtesy Ashiya City
Museum of Art & History. |
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| Live Art on Camera
reveals the work of photographers who documented seminal
performance art events from the 1950s to the present in
Europe, the United States and Japan. These events (often
experienced live by only a small audience) are primarily
received through still images: arguably subjective records,
translated through the ideas and aesthetics of the photographer.
The exhibition contextualises performance photography
within the photographers’ wider practices. Many
are well known in very different contexts (from reportage
to cinematography and architectural photography) as well
as being acknowledged as artists in their own right. |
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include Japanese photographer Ohtsuji Kiyoji’s
photographs of the 1950s Gutai group,
shown alongside his surrealist photography, and writings.
Peter Moore’s architectural photographs
of Penn Station, documenting the station’s gradual
destruction from 1962 to 1966, are seen in relation to
examples from his extensive archive of USA performance
photographs, including Allan Kaprow’s
and Wolf Vostell’s Happenings.
The relationship between the ‘photographed’,
the camera and the viewer was addressed in early works
by Babette Mangolte, such as her film
The Camera: Je, 1977 and A Photo Installation,
1978. In a parallel practice Mangolte also extensively
photographed performance works by Yvonne Rainer,
Robert Whitman, Joan Jonas,
Richard Foreman and Trisha Brown.
Yvonne and the Box, 1972, Yvonne
Rainer, photograph by Babette Mangolte © Babette
Mangolte All Rights of Reproduction Reserved.
In the case of Carolee Schneemann’s
work many different photographers documented single performances.
The exhibition reveals the diverse photographic styles
of these individuals, compared and contextualised in relation
to their ongoing practices.
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Kiyoji Ohtsuji, Portrait of the
Artist- in Nobuya Abe's Atelier, 1950. Photographs by
Kiyoji Ohtsuji © Seiko Ohtsuji.
Ana
Mendieta’s performances were recorded by
a number of friends, fellow students and family members.
Mendieta’s lover and tutor, artist
Hans Breder, made the photo-documentation
of some of her early performances in Iowa and Oaxaca.
In the same locations and often within the same
time-frame, Hans Breder also photographed
his own site-specific works, for which Mendieta
sometimes modelled.
(Above) Hans Breder, Body Sculpture
(La Ventosa),1973.
(Left) Schneemann Studio, New Paltz,
NY, 2006, photograph © Jennifer Kotter.
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Artists and
photographers in Live Art on Camera:
Marina Abramovic and Ulay,
Dona Ann McAdams, Hans Breder,
Stuart Brisley and Leslie Haslam,
Hollis Frampton, Hugo Glendinning,
Gutai Group, Lisa Kahane, Ute
Klophaus, Jennifer Kotter, Kurt
Kren, Antonio Lauer, Babette
Mangolte, Rosemary Mayer, Fred
W. McDarrah, Robert R. McElroy,
Ana Mendieta, Peter Moore,
Ohtsuji Kiyoji, Leda Papaconstantinou,
Adrian Piper, Tony Ray-Jones,
Carolee Schneeman (from the Schneemann
archive photographs by Arman, Manfred
Schroeder, Harvey Zucker, Al
Giese, Massal, Cheney,
Sally Dixon and Anthony McCall)
and Manuel Vason.
The exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue containing
essays by Kathy O’Dell, Carrie
Lambert-Beatty, Barbara Clausen,
Alice Maude-Roxby and Babette Mangolte,
and interviews with the photographers.
Live Art on Camera is a John
Hansard Gallery exhibition curated by Alice
Maude-Roxby. Supported by: |
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Curators'
Discussion
A filmed discussion between Live Art on Camera curator
Alice Maude-Roxby and Stephen
Foster, Director, John Hansard Gallery,
can be viewed and/or listened to using the links below
(a transcription will be published shortly).
 Watch
with Windows Media Player
Instructions on viewing the video can be found here.
Video produced by e-media, University of Southampton.
 Download
audio mp3 (8Mb)
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Panel
Discussion
A filmed discussion between Live Art on Camera curator
Alice Maude-Roxby, Stephen
Foster, Director, John Hansard Gallery, Dr
Kathy O’Dell, Associate Professor and Associate
Dean, College of Arts & Sciences, University of
Maryland and film-maker and photographer Babette
Mangolte can
be viewed and/or listened to using the links below
(a transcription will be published
shortly).
Watch
with Windows Media Player
Instructions on viewing the video can be found here.
Video produced by e-media, University of Southampton.
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audio mp3 (50Mb)
...or
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the logo or copy: http://www.hansardgallery.org.uk/exhibition/jhgpod1.xml to
your podcast software.
users
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