Performance: A Hidden Story
This reading elaborates on how performance art is a natural effect to art history. Performance art is not really a continuous theme in art but when it occurs, it mostly is seen in areas with big crowds minding their business. It depends what the performance is about, which makes the crowd wonder and be interested more with the artist doing their performance. This is because the artist is trying to get groups of people to stay for the end (if it includes one) and conclude what will happen next. Just with our guest speaker on Monday, she explains her experience when performing and how long it took, actions she made, and feelings she had.
The Other History of Intercultural Performance
This reading provides information about intercultural performance art and its timeline of how people performed their work. These performance include artists/performers from Asia, Africa, Europe, and America. Also includes Australian Aborigines, Tahitians, Aztecs, Iroquois, Cherokee, Ojibways, Iowas, Mohawks, Botocudos, Guianese, Hottentots, Kaffirs, Nubians, Somalians, Singhalese, Patagonians, Tierradel Fuegans, Kahucks, Anapondans, Zulus, Bushmen, Japanese, East Indians, and Laplanders have been exhibited in the taverns, theaters, gardens, museums, zoos, circuses, and world’s fairs of Europe, and the freak shows of the United States. Most of these performances were racist and considered them as origins of intercultural performance in the West. In the 1550s, Native Americans are brought to France to build a Brazilian village in Rouen. The King of France orders his soldiers to burn the village as a performance. He likes the spectacle so much that he orders it restaged the next day.