Body-Art

Body Art (Eng. body art ) is an artistic concept of the 20th century. Created this art direction is out in the 1960s from the Happening and Fluxus movement. The body doubles as an art medium as well as an art object. Often there are performances. Other art forms are photography and video art. The artist will add partially self- injury and pain to so treat her body as "material".

Known representatives of body art are Vito Acconci, Günter Brus, Dennis Oppenheim, Gina Pane, Michel Journiac, Urs Lüthi, Jürgen Klauke, Rudolf Schwarz Kogler and Marina Abramovic, but also the representatives of the Vienna activism in the late 1960s. " The essential feature of Body Art is to attack the audience. The aesthetics of the artwork is determined by the extent to which the thinking habits of the audience are messed up and he is released from his passive behavior. " Shock and Ekeleffekte be aware provoked.

In 1975, the first major body art exhibition was held in Paris. There François Pluchart published a manifesto for body art. In this, the right to own physical immediacy of experience as a political necessity declared.