{"id":37454,"date":"2016-09-15T17:11:12","date_gmt":"2016-09-15T15:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/?p=37454"},"modified":"2016-09-15T17:11:12","modified_gmt":"2016-09-15T15:11:12","slug":"5-great-performance-artists-arent-marina-abramovic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/5-great-performance-artists-arent-marina-abramovic\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Great Performance Artists who Aren\u2019t Marina Abramovic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"size--small\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-37524\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/WuTsang_.jpg\" alt=\"Wu Tsang. Still from 'Wildness'. Image from hammer.ucla.edu\" width=\"1300\" height=\"733\" \/> Wu Tsang. Still from &#8216;Wildness&#8217;. Image from hammer.ucla.edu<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nProvocateur, pioneer of performance art and media savant: Marina Abramovic has become a household name since her her MoMA retrospective \u201cThe Artist Is Present\u201d in 2012. Her silently staged, durational exchanges with the public were enduring and emotional and earned her an entourage of celebrity disciples. While her influence is indisputable, the Abramovic furore can sometimes overshadow equally important performance artists. So we\u2019ve taken a moment to reflect on five of her contemporaries, past and present who have contributed to evolution and legitimisation of this expansive and ever more popular practice.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=anCsBjyem1o<\/p>\n<h2>Ana Mendieta<\/h2>\n<p>Blood was integral to Ana Mendieta\u2019s practice. It was a real representation of aggression and a material that she often used to symbolise violence, particularly against women. She was also interested in the Afro-Cuban religion, Santer\u00eda and the sacrificial rituals they practice. A single thread connected everything in Mendieta\u2019s work including nature and feminine agency. Her performances anchored her to the earth and were simultaneously radical and ancient.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content-asset videofit\"><iframe title=\"Hannah Wilke (2010)\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/11874849?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<h2>Hannah Wilke<\/h2>\n<p>Hannah Wilke\u2019s had a turbulent relationship with Second Wave feminists. Her peers deemed her glamorous and naked self-presentation as narcissistic, yet her acute puns demonstrated a serious commitment to subverting phallocentric stereotypes. For example, Wilkes reclaimed the term penis envy and transformed it into Venus Envy, satirised glamour models and stuck chewing gum to her body in order to deface and transform the eroticised female body.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content-asset videofit\"><iframe title=\"Teaser for DAMELO TODO\/Give Me Everything (Working title)\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/15570359?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/?s=wu+tsang&amp;submit=Search\">Wu Tsang<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>Wu Tsang\u2019s work merges activism and fiction. Her 2012 film entitled \u201cWildness\u201d is a magical-realist ode to the Silver Platter, a bar that since 1963 has been an important totem of LA\u2019s Latin LGBT communities. The film deals with notions of a \u201csafe space\u201d for marginalised groups of people and the role it plays in the intersectional trans community. Tsang also performs in the film as dancer and DJ of the incendiary weekly party \u201cWildness\u201d which simmers with passion and confrontation.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content-asset videofit\"><iframe title=\"Senga Nengudi, Denmark 1996\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/23978888?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<h2>Senga Nengudi<\/h2>\n<p>For decades, Senga Nengudi has been highly regarded in avant-garde circles. Due to the nature of her uncategorisable work however, she has existed under the radar. Influenced by assemblage and ritual that she discovered in Yoruba, Pop and Fluxus, Nengudi\u2019s main media is panty hose. For her, it reflects the elasticity of the human body. By stretching them and intersecting walls, her installations are then \u201cactivated\u201d by a performance collaborator using movement.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content-asset videofit\"><iframe title=\"A living Modern Art - Leigh Bowery\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/64810291?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<h2>Leigh Bowery<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Leigh Bowery is the Christian boy who became London\u2019s iconic human sculpture in the eighties. He is best known for birthing his wife Nicola Bateman from a synthetic vagina and his legendary nightclub &#8211; Taboo. His overdrawn lips, DIY aesthetic and deliberately figure-distorting costumes were irreverent and remarkable, earning him a myriad admirers including Alexander McQueen, Michael Clarke and Lucien Freud.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>5 contributors to the to evolution of the ever more popular art practice<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37394,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11856,139],"tags":[5796,5797,38,1375,5798,4851,116,471,1673,5799,5800,1851],"class_list":["post-37454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sleek-art","category-art","tag-afro-cuban","tag-ana-mendieta","tag-art","tag-contemporary-art","tag-hannah-wilke","tag-leigh-bowery","tag-lgbt","tag-marina-abramovic","tag-performance-art","tag-santeria","tag-senga-nengudi","tag-wu-tsang"],"acf":{"main_category":null,"legacy":"1","exclude_from_ads":null,"hero_title":null,"subtitle":null,"hero":null,"teasers":null,"facebook_image":null,"related_articles":null,"next_article":null,"sleek_card_focus":null,"content":null},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>5 Great Performance Artists who Aren\u2019t Marina Abramovic 5 Great Performance Artists who Aren\u2019t Marina Abramovic<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/5-great-performance-artists-arent-marina-abramovic\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"de_DE\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"5 Great Performance Artists who Aren\u2019t Marina Abramovic 5 Great Performance Artists who Aren\u2019t Marina Abramovic\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"5 contributors to the to evolution of the ever more popular art practice\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/5-great-performance-artists-arent-marina-abramovic\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Sleek Magazine\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sleekmag\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2016-09-15T15:11:12+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@sleekmag\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@sleekmag\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Verfasst von\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"sleek\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Gesch\u00e4tzte Lesezeit\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2\u00a0Minuten\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/\",\"name\":\"Sleek Magazine\",\"description\":\"Sleek is Germany\u2019s leading independent media house\/brand for creativity and innovation located in Berlin the creative capital of the world. 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