Images versus Iconoclasms or shooting sacred cows from a train of thought
Sunday November 10 2 pm
Art System
A panel discussion of the 4th 7a*11d International Festival of Performance Art
Featuring Bruce BARBER, Tagny DUFF, Alissa FIRTH-EAGLAND, and Clive ROBERTSON; moderated by Johanna HOUSEHOLDER
We are like Benjamin’s angel being blown backward —looking at the debris piling up from five decades of performance (art). As much as we struggle against the idea of lineage, we waver between the peddling of an iconoclastic one-upmanship, feminist autonomy and the autodidact enfant sauvage. Artists, curators, critics, pedagogues — how do we differently manipulate the history of what we do, and what is at stake? Who does performance art history belong to? Did Paul McCarthy beget The Osbournes? Are images of political action, political action? Is history fatal? (with apologies to Clive)