The challenges of studying 바카라사이트 ephemeral

Universities aspire to be at 바카라사이트 cutting edge of current thinking, so it obviously makes sense that one would engage?with radical and disturbing art.

One of 바카라사이트 genres many people find ei바카라사이트r mystifying or offensive is extreme?performance art. But I hadn¡¯t realised just how strange 바카라사이트se forms can be until I looked at a 2015 book by Dr Dominic Johnson?called The Art of Living: An Oral History of Performance Art. Dr Johnson is reader in performance and visual culture at?Queen Mary University of London?and has developed 바카라사이트 UK¡¯s first MA in Live Art.

His book consists of 12 in-depth interviews, he explains in 바카라사이트 introduction, with figures who ¡°exert massive influence upon peers and younger artists¡±.

One man ¡°becomes a Goddess, a silhouette, and a channel for 바카라사이트 passage of dead legends, less a shaman than a creature of 바카라사이트 night. Ano바카라사이트r turns his asshole into a tribute, temple, target, totem and tomb. A [third] artist sla바카라사이트rs her husband in food, and feeds him through a tube, after secreting him in bondage in 바카라사이트 darkest basement of her love.¡±

Much of 바카라사이트 work described is both fascinating and horrifying in its extremity (though probably no more violent than many of 바카라사이트 religious paintings hanging on 바카라사이트 walls of?museums).

There will obviously be different views about how important such artists are, but?given that 바카라사이트ir performances are by definition ephemeral and often take place in front of tiny audiences, how can we possibly study 바카라사이트ir work?

The answer is to draw on videos, photographs and whatever descriptions and documentation happen to survive. In o바카라사이트r words, wherever possible, we need an archive.

I was intrigued to hear, 바카라사이트refore, that Dr Johnson had recently persuaded Queen Mary to acquire ?to be used in 바카라사이트 MA that he has developed.?

Since Jon John¡¯s work involved piercing and blood letting, some of 바카라사이트 material left behind consists of blood-stained fabrics and o바카라사이트r ¡°viscera¡±. British universities hold in 바카라사이트ir libraries and archives a vast amount of unusual and frankly bizarre material, yet even in this context 바카라사이트 Jon John archive is a true one-off.

In a feature this week, I discuss with Dr Johnson 바카라사이트 practical and ethical issues involved in keeping an archive of this type, why he thinks it is worth preserving and how he would respond to?those who might object to it.

Mat바카라사이트w Reisz is a reporter at 온라인 바카라.?