Implied Action: Performance Through Object
Implied Action: Performance Through Object examines the various relationships between artist, performance, and object. This exhibition contains objects that focus on the connections between artist and object as well as object and performance. The artist’s role with the object varies from manufacturing an object specifically for a performance; to using a found object; to accumulating items during a performance and creating an archive; to presenting a piece that implies an action or performance.
The artists featured in Implied Action, Carissa Carman, Mike Calway-Fagen, Carrie Mae Smith, and Keith Allyn Spencer, either make objects or use found items to convey the history of, presence of, or potential for performance. The object’s role in relation to performance also varies. Some of these items are functional and were created for a specific performance. Others are artifacts and exist as the remnants that tell viewers of a past or imaginary performance. In one case, the performance was done by willing participants at the artist’s direction and the objects become evidence of that process. Other objects are translated into the digital world and perform through access to the internet. Across the board, the artists in Implied Action convey some level of performative action through their creation and choice of objects.
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The artists featured in Implied Action, Carissa Carman, Mike Calway-Fagen, Carrie Mae Smith, and Keith Allyn Spencer, either make objects or use found items to convey the history of, presence of, or potential for performance. The object’s role in relation to performance also varies. Some of these items are functional and were created for a specific performance. Others are artifacts and exist as the remnants that tell viewers of a past or imaginary performance. In one case, the performance was done by willing participants at the artist’s direction and the objects become evidence of that process. Other objects are translated into the digital world and perform through access to the internet. Across the board, the artists in Implied Action convey some level of performative action through their creation and choice of objects.
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