The spectacular suchness of the performance art of Milan Adamčiak Cover Image

Spektakulárna takosť performancií Milana Adamčiaka
The spectacular suchness of the performance art of Milan Adamčiak

Author(s): Július Fujak
Subject(s): Theatre, Dance, Performing Arts, Recent History (1900 till today), Sociology of Art
Published by: Ústav divadelnej a filmovej vedy SAV
Keywords: performance art; action and conceptual art; totem

Summary/Abstract: This paper is focused on some aspects of the specific and unique concept of MilanAdamčiak’s (1946 – 2017) performance art, which embodies not only conscious refer-ences to the contemporary postmodern avant-garde of (neo-)Fluxus or conceptualart, but also certain spectacularly presented, sui generis dimensions of earthiness,surprising playfulness, and humorous controversy. Besides a selective, model pre-sentation of his solo and collective performances and happenings, the author dis-cusses the specificity of the intermedial poetics of Adamčiak’s performance art inreferences to the ideas of Jozef Cseres and Peter Faltin, who specialised in music se-miotics (works of art as totems) about shifts in the understanding of the ontologicalstatus of postmodern works of art.

  • Issue Year: 70/2022
  • Issue No: 04
  • Page Range: 390 - 403
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Slovak