Tag Archives: performance art

Deconstructing the art and spectacle of Ivanka Vacuuming

Posted on February 7, 2019 by editor, facilitator, decider

Performance art can be a challenge to interpret. By its very nature it represents a forfeiture of control—by relocating the creative process from the studio to the stage, and by producing and reproducing iterative art before a mutable audience, the … Continue reading →

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A century of the absurd – Looking back on Dada

Posted on September 12, 2015 by editor, facilitator, decider

It was roughly a hundred years ago (the dates are hard to pin down) that one of history’s most vibrant, innovative, and influential art movements was born. Dadaism dominated the scene for a scant twenty years, spinning off from the … Continue reading →

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Artist / provocateur Petro Wodkins makes Putin’s head explode

Posted on September 3, 2015 by editor, facilitator, decider

Petro Wodkins is by now an old friend of the Deconstruction—we chuckled with him back in May ’13 when he hijacked Belgium’s beloved Mannekin Pis (and replaced it with himself). And we thrilled with him in the following year when … Continue reading →

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Happy birthday Marina Abramović (you scare the hell out of me)

Posted on November 30, 2013 by editor, facilitator, decider

My take on performance art is…complicated. My better self has the same respect, the same esteem, for this art and these artists as I do for any art, any artist. My kneejerk self, though, tends to look at performance artists … Continue reading →

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