Sunday Feature on Performance Art - tonight (8 Sept) - 7.45

[Serial_Apologist]

"7.45 tonight Sunday Feature: Living and Present: Laurie Anderson on Performance Art

Laurie Anderson, who in 1982 charted high in Britain with the experimental pop single O Superman, traces the roots of performance art, an increasingly popular art form that blurs the boundaries of art, theatre and dance. She focuses on this innovative and elusive medium, drawing out the qualities of ritual and gathering, pain and endurance, with examples by Marinetti, Joseph Beuys, John Cage, Yoko Ono, Vito Acconci, Stuart Brisley and Chris Burden."

I could have alerted members under several board categories here. Jazzers note, however, there may not be much swing on show in this programme.

[Nick Armstrong]

I'm just glad that the transmission of this programme will see the end of the innumerable broadcasts of the trailer for it Has any programme been more exhaustingly trailed, or have I just been unlucky?

[teamsaint]

I'm just glad that the transmission of this programme will see the end of the innumerable broadcasts of the trailer for it Has any programme been more exhaustingly trailed, or have I just been unlucky?

not seen any myself.
Perhaps the "only really turn on for the footy" demographic is not the target market....

Bad luck anyway , Cals !!

[Nick Armstrong]

not seen any myself

Nor I - for 'tis on the steam radio!

[teamsaint]

Nor I - for 'tis on the steam radio!

Oh that old thing.

Mr S_A should look to his Laurels then...no mention of radio at all in the OP

how the hell can performance Art be on the radio, in any case. ?!


and anyway, the ones I didn't see were on the telly !!

[Nick Armstrong]

Maybe S_A was thinking that people might assume that, being referred to on this Forum, the prog in question is (unless otherwise specified) on

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Radio 3

You know, that old thing!

[teamsaint]

its a fair cop.

I only know about R3 progs if they are tweeted, TBF.

[Bryn]

One strange thing about Laurie Anderson is that being a performance artist for whom the visual aspect of performance is very much integral to the package, there are no DVDs . Even Home of the Brave only made it to video cassette tape, Laserdisc and (since a year ago) YouTube. I'd certainly be one of the many in the market for a boxed set of DVDs of her performances.

Oops, I was forgetting the shortish DVD in the Homeland CD/DVD package.

[gurnemanz]

The programme was more interesting than her performance we saw at the Barbican a few years ago. I was less than riveted. Lukewarm review here. Coincidentally, on a visit to New York a few years ago we saw the Marina Abramović show, The Artist Is Present, which was mentioned. The exhibition had various living tableaux, photos and films depicting the "Body as Medium". It included, somewhat disconcertingly, stark naked people you had to brush past. She sat there for hours and stared at volunteer members of the public. This was strangely compelling. Our short trip to New York, the only time we have been to America, was made even more exciting by the Eyjafjallajokull ash cloud threatening to discontinue all Transatlantic flights.