Avant-Garde-ness & Experimentation: Renegades as Outliers
Avant-Garde-ness & Experimentation: Renegades as Outliers

Summary/Abstract: The article was written from the point of view of a witness, participant in civilization and social changes in South Korea. Rapid modernization has transformed the social structure of Korean society. The territory of contemporary art, contemporary forms, such as happenings and performances, has become a way of expressing a critical approach to the ongoing civilization changes, and at the same time a way of pro-democratic demands addressed to the military regime ruling the country at that time. The connection of the history of avant-garde art and the anticipation of the development of art functioning in the social context of the time, led to the creation of an intellectual project entitled 'Rhizomatous Map of Performance Art' (see the diagram). It was based on the author's personal experiences as an artist, art critic and art historian. The conclusion of the project is to establish in research and personal experience the belief that performance art plays a central role in the development of modern society and its creative culture. Art and its creators, who once seemed renegade, are now seen as pioneers of the modern Korean state.

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