ART THOUGHTZ: Performance Art

In Hernnesse Youngman’s youtube video, Performance art, his satire of the content of performance art since the 1900 helps us rethink, even redefine the ideas of what is performance art and how to make one. His satire strikes us at three points. First, performance art’s origin versus its definition. Second, art created in different times and affected by historical events. Lastly, the internet alternates the meaning of performance art.

  Hernnesse believes explaining an art form’s origin only complicates the matter, he posts some pictures that enough to make people laugh to tears in order to demonstrate that people’s actions and materials they use in an artwork would do better explaining what is actually happening.

  The world has been in a series of political turbulence and it has always been. Performance art can sometimes being very time-sensitive, or territorial, reflects certain social events. Or simply a kind of unsatisfactory from civilians. Mostly anger and depression. To Hernnesse, creating performance art becomes easier than flipping your own hand, because what you have to do is to act out unreasonably. Crazier than what is already crazy.

  He constantly talking and posting pictures of people acting hilariously in front of their computer’s webcam. He criticize the misuse of the internet has blurry the line of performance art and performance on a screen. However, it also means the distance between professional artists and ordinary people in creating arts is alternated. Maybe, we just have to add the word “piece” to all of our batty, disturbing ideas and make it an art.