Endurance art is a kind of performance art involving some form of hardship, such as pain, solitude or exhaustion.[2] Performances that focus on the passage of long periods of time are also known as durational art or durational performances.[3]
Writer Michael Fallon traces the genre to the work of Chris Burden in California in the 1970s.[4] Burden spent five days in a locker in Five Day Locker Piece (1971), had himself shot in Shoot (1971), and lived for 22 days in a bed in an art gallery in Bed Piece (1972).[5]
Other examples of endurance art include Tehching Hsieh's One Year Performance 1980–1981 (Time Clock Piece), in which for 12 months he punched a time clock every hour, and Art/Life One Year Performance 1983–1984 (Rope Piece), in which Hsieh and Linda Montano spent a year tied to each other by an eight-foot rope.[6]
In The House with the Ocean View (2003), Marina Abramović lived silently for 12 days without food or entertainment on a stage entirely open to the audience.[7] Such is the physical stamina required for some of her work that in 2012 she set up what she called a "boot camp" in Hudson, New York, for participants in her multiple-person performances.[8]
The Nine Confinements or The Deprivation of Liberty is a conceptual, endurance art and performative work of critical and biographical content by artist Abel Azcona. The artwork was a sequence of performances carried out between 2013 and 2016. All of the series had a theme of deprivation of liberty. The first in the series was performed by Azcona in 2013 and named Confinement in Search of Identity.[9] The artist was to remain for sixty days in a space built inside an art gallery of Madrid, with scarce food resources and in total darkness. The performance was stopped after forty-two days for health reasons and the artist hospitalised.[10] Azcona created these works as a reflection and also a discursive interruption of his own mental illness, mental illness being one of the recurring themes in Azcona's work.[11]
Tehching Hsieh spent a year in this cage in his studio in One Year Performance 1978–1979 (Cage Piece).
Marina Abramović[12] – Rhythm 5, 1974; Luminosity, 1997, 2010; Nude with Skeleton, 2002, 2005, 2010;[8]The House With the Ocean View (2003); Balkan Erotic Epic, 2005.[13]
Marina Abramović with Ulay[14] – Point of Contact, 1980;[8]Night Sea Crossing, 1981; The Lovers: Walk on the Great Wall, 1988.[15]
^Elizabeth Greenwood, "Wait, Why Did That Woman Sit in the MoMA for 750 Hours?", The Atlantic, 2 July 2012.
^For artists in endurance performances "[q]uestioning the limits of their bodies," Tatiana A. Koroleva, Subversive Body in Performance Art, ProQuest, 2008, pp. 29, 44–46.
^Paul Allain, Jen Harvie, The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance, Routledge, 2014, p. 221. Other terms include duration art, live art or time-based art.
Beth Hoffmann, "The Time of Live Art," in Deirdre Heddon, Jennie Klein (eds.), Histories and Practices of Live Art, Palgrave Macmillan, 2012, p. 47.
^Michael Fallon, Creating the Future: Art and Los Angeles in the 1970s, Counterpoint, 2014, p. 106: "Burden's performances were so widely observed that they took on a life beyond the artist, helping create a new art genre, 'endurance art' ..."
^Emily Anne Kuriyama, "Everything You Need to Know About Chris Burden's Art Through His Greatest Works", Complex, 2 October 2013.
^Andrew Taylor, "Tehching Hsieh: The artist who took the punches as they came", Sydney Morning Herald, 30 April 2014: "Don't try this endurance art at home. That is Tehching Hsieh's advice to artists inspired to emulate the five year-long performances he began in the late 1970s."
^Thomas McEvilley, "Performing the Present Tense – A recent piece by Marina Abramovic blended endurance art and Buddhist meditation," Art in America, 91(4), April 2003.
^ abcE. C. Feiss, "Endurance Performance: Post-2008", Afterall, 23 May 2012.
^García García, Oscar (July 12, 2013). "The artist Abel Azcona will remain locked up for sixty days without light". Contemporary Art Platform. Retrieved January 14, 2020.
^Guisado, Paula (August 17, 2013). "An artist ends up in the hospital after 42 days emulating life in a placenta". El Mundo. Retrieved January 14, 2020.
^Corroto, Paula (June 16, 2019). "Abel Azcona: "I feel more a prostitute's son or mentally ill than an artist"". El Confidencial. Retrieved January 14, 2020.
^Miriam Seidel, "Pioneer Of Endurance Art To Give Lecture", Philadelphia Inquirer, 3 December 1998.
John Perreault, "Lady Gaga Rejected by Marina Abramović, Plus MoMA Sound", Artopia, 13 September 2013.
^Karen Rosenberg, "Provocateur: Marina Abramovic", New York Magazine, 12 December 2005.
^ abcJillian Steinhauer, "Two Weeks Into Performance, Columbia Student Discusses the Weight of Her Mattress", Hyperallergic, 17 September 2014 (citing Jon Kessler).
^Paul Allain, Jen Harvie, The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance, Routledge, 2014, p. 15.
^John Perreault, "Lady Gaga Rejected by Marina Abramović, Plus MoMA Sound", Artopia, 13 September 2013.
^ abcEmily Vey Duke, Kevin Rodgers, , C Magazine, 22 June 2005.
^Zas Marcos, Mónica (October 18, 2018). "Abel Azcona offers a gun to those who fantasize about killing him in his latest performance". El Diario.es. Retrieved January 8, 2019.
^Dierdre Heddon, "The Politics of Live Art," in Heddon and Klein 2012, p. 87.
^Linda M. Montano, Letters from Linda M. Montano, Routledge, 2012, p. 185.
^ abcDeepika Shetty, "Endurance art: Five memorable marathon performances", The Straits Times, 14 August 2013.
^ abKaren Gonzalez Rice, "Sexing the Monk: Masculinity and Monastic Discipline in American Endurance Art Circa 1975", College Art Association Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, 12–15 February 2014.
^Trout Monfalco, "Endurance Art – Six Hours is Too Long", Art Here and Now, accessed 24 February 2014.
^The New York Times (15 September 2016). "What to See in New York Galleries This Week". The New York Times.
^"Alive Someplace Better: EJ Hill's Horizontal Poetics by Amber Officer- Narvasa".
^"Video: Studio Museum in Harlem Artists in Conversation".
^"Tehching Hsieh: the man who didn't go to bed for a year". the Guardian. 2014-04-30. Retrieved 2022-11-18.
^John Perrault, "Tehching Hsieh: Caged Fury", Artopia, 1 February 2009.
^"Sorrow on repeat: Ragnar Kjartansson on endurance art", CBC, 20 January 2015; "Ragnar Kjartansson and The National A Lot of Sorrow ", Luhring Augustine.
^"Celebrations abound for Vernors' 150th anniversary: Pop Art". Detroit News. Retrieved 2017-07-23.
^"My Drinking Problem: Pumpkin Spice Odyessy". Eric Millikin. Retrieved 2017-07-23.
^"Electronic Arts Intermix: Stamping in the Studio, Bruce Nauman". www.eai.org. Retrieved 2017-07-23.
^"Electronic Arts Intermix: Revolving Upside Down, Bruce Nauman". www.eai.org. Retrieved 2017-07-23.
^Ronson, Jon (2012-11-30). "Bryan Saunders: Portrait of the artist on crystal meth". The Guardian.
Montano, Linda M. "Endurance Then and Now," Letters from Linda M. Montano, Routledge, 2012, p. 123ff.
O’Brien, Martin. "Performing Chronic: Chronic illness and endurance art", Performance Research, 26 September 2014, pp. 54–63.
Snorteland, Kevin (13 May 2014). "Endurance Art and painting collide at BFA show". The Lantern.
von Ah, André. "Performance Art: A Bit of History, Examples and a Fast Dictionary", The Huffington Post, 9 November 2013.
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Endurance art is a kind of performance art involving some form of hardship such as pain solitude or exhaustion 2 Performances that focus on the passage of long periods of time are also known as durational art or durational performances 3 Marina Abramovic s The Artist is Present 2010 Museum of Modern Art New York Abramovic sat silently opposite museum visitors for eight hours a day for three months a total of 750 hours 1 The artist Abel Azcona during The Death of The Artist at Circulo de Bellas Artes de Madrid Writer Michael Fallon traces the genre to the work of Chris Burden in California in the 1970s 4 Burden spent five days in a locker in Five Day Locker Piece 1971 had himself shot in Shoot 1971 and lived for 22 days in a bed in an art gallery in Bed Piece 1972 5 Other examples of endurance art include Tehching Hsieh s One Year Performance 1980 1981 Time Clock Piece in which for 12 months he punched a time clock every hour and Art Life One Year Performance 1983 1984 Rope Piece in which Hsieh and Linda Montano spent a year tied to each other by an eight foot rope 6 In The House with the Ocean View 2003 Marina Abramovic lived silently for 12 days without food or entertainment on a stage entirely open to the audience 7 Such is the physical stamina required for some of her work that in 2012 she set up what she called a boot camp in Hudson New York for participants in her multiple person performances 8 The Nine Confinements or The Deprivation of Liberty is a conceptual endurance art and performative work of critical and biographical content by artist Abel Azcona The artwork was a sequence of performances carried out between 2013 and 2016 All of the series had a theme of deprivation of liberty The first in the series was performed by Azcona in 2013 and named Confinement in Search of Identity 9 The artist was to remain for sixty days in a space built inside an art gallery of Madrid with scarce food resources and in total darkness The performance was stopped after forty two days for health reasons and the artist hospitalised 10 Azcona created these works as a reflection and also a discursive interruption of his own mental illness mental illness being one of the recurring themes in Azcona s work 11 Contents 1 Examples 2 See also 3 References 4 Further readingExamples Edit Tehching Hsieh spent a year in this cage in his studio in One Year Performance 1978 1979 Cage Piece Marina Abramovic 12 Rhythm 5 1974 Luminosity 1997 2010 Nude with Skeleton 2002 2005 2010 8 The House With the Ocean View 2003 Balkan Erotic Epic 2005 13 Marina Abramovic with Ulay 14 Point of Contact 1980 8 Night Sea Crossing 1981 The Lovers Walk on the Great Wall 1988 15 Vito Acconci Seedbed 1972 16 David Askevold Fill 1970 17 18 Abel Azcona The Death of The Artist 19 2018 The Fathers 2016 Amen or The Pederasty 2015 Buried 2015 Eating 2012 The Nine Confinements or The Deprivation of Liberty 2013 2016 Stuart Brisley And for today nothing 1972 20 Chris Burden 14 Five Day Locker Piece 1971 David Blaine 21 Witness 1999 22 Buried Alive Frozen in Time Vertigo Above the Below Drowned Alive Revolution Electrified Ascension Jimmy Donaldson Counting to 100 000 watching It s Everyday Bro for 10 hours 50 hours buried alive fasting for 30 days 2016 ongoing Nikhil Chopra Give Me Your Blood And I Will Give You Freedom 2014 23 Houston Conwill Juju Rituals 1975 1983 24 Elevator Repair Service Gatz 2005 23 25 EJ Hill A Monumental Offering of Potential Energy 2016 26 27 28 29 Tehching Hsieh One Year Performance 1978 1979 Cage Piece One Year Performance 1980 1981 Time Clock Piece 30 31 Tehching Hsieh with Linda Montano Art Life One Year Performance 1983 1984 Rope Piece Ragnar Kjartansson A Lot of Sorrow 2014 32 Stan Lai A Dream Like A Dream 2014 23 Eric Millikin My Drinking Problem 2016 33 34 Bruce Nauman Stamping in the Studio 1968 Revolving Upside Down 1969 17 35 36 Bryan Lewis Saunders Under the Influence 2001 37 Deaf Month 2011 38 While Being Tortured 2014 39 30 Days Totally Blind 2018 40 Carolee Schneeman Up To And Including Her Limits 1973 1976 17 Wolfgang Stoerchle Attempt Public Erection 1972 1975 24 Emma Sulkowicz Mattress Performance Carry That Weight 2014 2015 41 14 Zhang Huan 12 Square Meters 1994 42 Benjamin Bennett Sitting and Smiling 2014 ongoing 43 Guido Segni A quiet desert failure 2013 ongoing 44 45 46 47 48 49 See also EditHunger artist StyliteReferences Edit Elizabeth Greenwood Wait Why Did That Woman Sit in the MoMA for 750 Hours The Atlantic 2 July 2012 For artists in endurance performances q uestioning the limits of their bodies Tatiana A Koroleva Subversive Body in Performance Art ProQuest 2008 pp 29 44 46 Paul Allain Jen Harvie The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance Routledge 2014 p 221 Other terms include duration art live art or time based art Beth Hoffmann The Time of Live Art in Deirdre Heddon Jennie Klein eds Histories and Practices of Live Art Palgrave Macmillan 2012 p 47 Michael Fallon Creating the Future Art and Los Angeles in the 1970s Counterpoint 2014 p 106 Burden s performances were so widely observed that they took on a life beyond the artist helping create a new art genre endurance art Emily Anne Kuriyama Everything You Need to Know About Chris Burden s Art Through His Greatest Works Complex 2 October 2013 Andrew Taylor Tehching Hsieh The artist who took the punches as they came Sydney Morning Herald 30 April 2014 Don t try this endurance art at home That is Tehching Hsieh s advice to artists inspired to emulate the five year long performances he began in the late 1970s Thomas McEvilley Performing the Present Tense A recent piece by Marina Abramovic blended endurance art and Buddhist meditation Art in America 91 4 April 2003 a b c E C Feiss Endurance Performance Post 2008 Afterall 23 May 2012 Garcia Garcia Oscar July 12 2013 The artist Abel Azcona will remain locked up for sixty days without light Contemporary Art Platform Retrieved January 14 2020 Guisado Paula August 17 2013 An artist ends up in the hospital after 42 days emulating life in a placenta El Mundo Retrieved January 14 2020 Corroto Paula June 16 2019 Abel Azcona I feel more a prostitute s son or mentally ill than an artist El Confidencial Retrieved January 14 2020 Miriam Seidel Pioneer Of Endurance Art To Give Lecture Philadelphia Inquirer 3 December 1998 John Perreault Lady Gaga Rejected by Marina Abramovic Plus MoMA Sound Artopia 13 September 2013 Karen Rosenberg Provocateur Marina Abramovic New York Magazine 12 December 2005 a b c Jillian Steinhauer Two Weeks Into Performance Columbia Student Discusses the Weight of Her Mattress Hyperallergic 17 September 2014 citing Jon Kessler Paul Allain Jen Harvie The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance Routledge 2014 p 15 John Perreault Lady Gaga Rejected by Marina Abramovic Plus MoMA Sound Artopia 13 September 2013 a b c Emily Vey Duke Kevin Rodgers Two types of sacred 1970s endurance art today C Magazine 22 June 2005 David Askevold www umanitoba ca Retrieved 2017 07 23 Zas Marcos Monica October 18 2018 Abel Azcona offers a gun to those who fantasize about killing him in his latest performance El Diario es Retrieved January 8 2019 Dierdre Heddon The Politics of Live Art in Heddon and Klein 2012 p 87 Cindy Adams He ll stay awake the longest ever New York Post 5 December 2007 Linda M Montano Letters from Linda M Montano Routledge 2012 p 185 a b c Deepika Shetty Endurance art Five memorable marathon performances The Straits Times 14 August 2013 a b Karen Gonzalez Rice Sexing the Monk Masculinity and Monastic Discipline in American Endurance Art Circa 1975 College Art Association Annual Conference Chicago IL 12 15 February 2014 Trout Monfalco Endurance Art Six Hours is Too Long Art Here and Now accessed 24 February 2014 The New York Times 15 September 2016 What to See in New York Galleries This Week The New York Times Alive Someplace Better EJ Hill s Horizontal Poetics by Amber Officer Narvasa Video Studio Museum in Harlem Artists in Conversation EJ Hill In Conversation with Nicole Kaack Tehching Hsieh the man who didn t go to bed for a year the Guardian 2014 04 30 Retrieved 2022 11 18 John Perrault Tehching Hsieh Caged Fury Artopia 1 February 2009 Sorrow on repeat Ragnar Kjartansson on endurance art CBC 20 January 2015 Ragnar Kjartansson and The National A Lot of Sorrow Luhring Augustine Celebrations abound for Vernors 150th anniversary Pop Art Detroit News Retrieved 2017 07 23 My Drinking Problem Pumpkin Spice Odyessy Eric Millikin Retrieved 2017 07 23 Electronic Arts Intermix Stamping in the Studio Bruce Nauman www eai org Retrieved 2017 07 23 Electronic Arts Intermix Revolving Upside Down Bruce Nauman www eai org Retrieved 2017 07 23 Ronson Jon 2012 11 30 Bryan Saunders Portrait of the artist on crystal meth The Guardian Bryan Lewis Saunders Deaf 2018 04 13 Bryan Lewis Saunders Draws While Being Tortured 2014 12 23 30 days totally blind Bryan Lewis Saunders 2018 06 13 Roberta Smith In a Mattress a Lever for Art and Political Protest The New York Times 22 September 2014 Hentyle Yapp Verona Leung Revisiting performance art of the 1990s and the politics of meditation Leap 8 August 2013 Putney Dean 7 October 2015 Internet man sits and smiles at camera for hundreds of hours Boing Boing Retrieved 17 February 2017 A Quiet Desert Failure Retrieved 2018 01 23 A Quiet Desert Failure Retrieved 2018 01 23 A Quiet Desert Failure be patient the desert is coming Retrieved 2018 01 23 A Quiet Desert Failure Retrieved 2018 01 23 A Quiet Desert Failure Retrieved 2018 01 23 Guido Segni s A quiet desert failure 2015 11 25 Retrieved 2018 01 23 Further reading EditBrown Sierra Discover Endurance Art California State University Long Beach 2008 report on an exhibition Kafka Franz A Hunger Artist 1922 Montano Linda M Endurance Then and Now Letters from Linda M Montano Routledge 2012 p 123ff O Brien Martin Performing Chronic Chronic illness and endurance art Performance Research 26 September 2014 pp 54 63 Snorteland Kevin 13 May 2014 Endurance Art and painting collide at BFA show The Lantern von Ah Andre Performance Art A Bit of History Examples and a Fast Dictionary The Huffington Post 9 November 2013 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Endurance art amp oldid 1142703051, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
