AS AN EXPERIENCE OF EMPATHY WITH A LIVE ANIMAL PERFORMANCE ART Cover Image

CANLI HAYVANLA EMPATI KURMA DENEYİMİ OLARAK PERFORMANS SANATI
AS AN EXPERIENCE OF EMPATHY WITH A LIVE ANIMAL PERFORMANCE ART

Author(s): Ayşegül Türk
Subject(s): Visual Arts, Environmental interactions, Post-War period (1950 - 1989), Sociology of Art
Published by: Sanat ve Dil Araştırmaları Enstitüsü
Keywords: Joseph Beuys; changing art object; living animal;

Summary/Abstract: Modern urban life and all the orders established accordingly are people-oriented. It is managed and operated with the codes determined by this human. In this system, the other was excluded, dislodged and exiled to custom. Neither natural, nor plant, animal, almost the entire eco-system has been reorganized according to the conditions and rules determined by the human being with human ego and hypocrisy. It can make enough space for itself to live in the freedom area bestowed by man. When the art movements after 1960 are examined; again, the effects of a human-centered approach are clearly visible. The viewer and many concepts that move when viewed in the frame; He saw no harm in using the living or dead animal as an art object. Although the actions and actions to react to the social tensions have a ritual characteristic, they are only demonstrations that consist of watching the displaced animal. In this research, in the performance titled "I Love America and Me in America", which Joseph Beuys performed in 1974, next to the art object of the live animal, the next row; An analysis will be made regarding his coming to a social reaction symbol.

  • Issue Year: 9/2020
  • Issue No: 76
  • Page Range: 1784-1791
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: Turkish