LIVE ART - "Concert for Dogs"

The Intermedia Art class will present a night of LIVE ART -- "Concert for Dogs" on Tuesday evening, 

April 8th, 2014 at 7:30pm in the Commons at 

Cornell College in Mount Vernon, Iowa. 

• It will be a night to remember...!

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PATTY CHANG -- In LOVE With

In Love With (Patty Chang) by MiShorts

Performance Art Primer on TATE

Performance Art Primer: Frank Skinner, comedian and art lover, schools us on the history of performance art, including Dada, dance and death-defying installations.

Performance Art asks important questions. It is a social critique. 

WATCH.

fluxus festival 1962

PLEASE WATCH THIS VIDEO. AS WE PREPARE FOR OUR 'CONCERT FOR DOGS' WE MUST THINK ABOUT CONTINUITY, RISK, IDEAS, SPECTACLE, SOUND, GESTURE AND TIME. FLUXUS ART LIKES TO MAKE FUN OF HIGH ART. IT IS CHALLENGING HIGH ART. ARTISTS USED SCORES AND PERFORMED SOLO AND COLLABORATIVELY.

PERFORMANCE ART IN THE 1950S THRU THE 1970S USED THEIR BODIES DIRECTLY IN ACTIONS/GESTURES TO ASK QUESTIONS, EXPLORE, TRANSFORM. PLEASE RESEARCH SEVERAL ARTISTS' WORKS --- AND SPEND TIME CONSIDERING/ ANALYZING THEIR INTENTIONS AND HOW THE ARTIST PERFORMED THE WORK.

Using your body as the ART is about duration (time) and PRESENCE. You must have a firm intention.

What you do - the work, the gesture, the action - should convey meaning. YOU ARE THE OBJECT.

Ana Mendieta

Ana Mendieta studied at the University of Iowa in the what is now called Intermedia Art program with Hans Breder. We have a beautiful book in our library about  her and her provocative work.

New Exhibition/blog --- on Huffington Post.

The Haunting Traces Of Ana Mendieta Go On View 

Jim Dine - The Smiling Workman 1960

In Catalysts, we look at how Homage to New York took place at the same time as the early Happenings were exploding on the scene in downtown New York, a notorious avant-garde movement led by painters and theater artists, most notably Allan Kaprow, Robert Whitman, Claes Oldenburg, and Jim Dine. Dine, in his 1960 performance, The Smiling Workman, took the sensory nature of multimedia to heart, drinking a bucket of paint on stage while emoting on the tribulations of life, love and existence.

Jim Dine, The Smiling Workman 1960

Intermedia Students at Laurie Anderson Show at the Englert Theatre

Intermedia Now! Cornell College art students attend Laurie Anderson Lecture @ Enlert Theatre, Iowa City, Iowa

What a special evening! In Iowa City at the Englert Theatre, my class and I were so lucky to see and hear Laurie Anderson talk about her life and her art, her work. Stories.... it was an honestly open and compelling lecture about who she is as a person, how ideas come to her, how she doubts herself as an artist, so inspiring and oh so real.