This exhibition examines recent ideas and theories that frame performance as a phenomenon that is everywhere. Performative actions may include the manifestation of ideas, whether literal, oral, spoken, or written. Such forms can be visual, architectural, spatial, gestural and gendered. This exhibition looks at how these different modes may be ‘recorded’ via the medium of photography.
Since the 1960s, photography and performance have experienced a shared history. Artists have embraced the possibilities of this time-based medium by deploying a documentary mode – capturing the fleeting, the happening, the ephemeral. The camera becomes an extension of the artist’s body, documenting their actions and interventions.
Hiroshi Sugimoto, 'State Theatre, Sydney' 1997, silver gelatin photograph. Purchased with funds from the Dr MJ Morrissey Bequest Fund in memory of Professor AL Sadler 2017, University Art Collection, UA2017.5.
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LinkExhibition closed 4 August 2024
Chau Chak Wing Museum
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Chau Chak Wing Museum
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