What is performance art installation

WHAT IS PERFORMANCE ART INSTALLATION

Performing art installation: Blurring the boundary is a necessity: There was a time when the industrial revolution reduced human ability to mere operations and now with the emergence of nano- tech, on one side, posing a big logical problem for the “presence of human existence” in material world by going zero size, where even the operations are also getting separated from human ability. At the same time, on the other side with technological innovations, tvs, cell phones, digital cameras, computers and printing are flooding us with millions of visual images and communication as big installed object. Under this circumstance, it is become very important for art to define its domain in clear perspective. Installations of monumental blow of up of microscopic world as a protest against nano culture, as it is being practiced, is becoming irrelevant, since it is very much part of the problem itself. It does not portray or protest the human condition. Now it is time that art as an idea or an exploration of possibilities to define its domain at a new dimension. Keeping this objective, a beginning has been made with a performing art installation “ burn door”, by Master program students, Faculty of arts and humanities, CEPT University, Ahmedabad. Performing art installation is a selective mixture from both performance art and installation art . Performance art in a broader term tries to establish the existence of artist through time, space, artist and the relationship between performer and audience (human relation), while installation art explores the sensory experience of audience leaving space and time as dimensional constants (object relation). Keeping this ideological existence of performance art and installation art in defining human existence, furthering the idea to address the present day problem of human identity, this new form of art is developed as- performing art installation. Practice: Performing art installation Performance will be with” absentia” of performer, signifying the elimination of human race by technology even from the “operator” level while digital visual imaging gives the illusion of self importance ( wrapping up of the performer or deliberate elimination of “visibility” of performer’s body. No sound. No artificial lighting “Conceptual “placements of objects , time and space (in contrast to the idea of non conceptual objects in installation) Only open ended ideation, where possibilities are viewer’s prerogative Narendra Raghunath