Grażyna Bobilewicz PERFORMANCE ART BY WOMEN (Marina

Grażyna Bobilewicz
PERFORMANCE ART BY WOMEN (Marina Abramović,
Elena Kowylina, Eva Partum)
The author of the text Performance Art By Women (Marina Abramović,
Elena Kowylina, Eva Partum) presents performance art using as an example
the output of three artists who come from culturally and geopolitically
different countries (Serbia, Russia, Poland) and create their works at a
cultural intersection. The analysis, based on exemplary material, refers to
the category of intertextuality and contextuality. The comparison of the
artists’ performance works has shown the differences in their understanding
and approach to performance art, different attitude to the body as an object
of activity, references to specific contexts and
interpretative indexes that
function within their frame: feminist context (positive, confrontational,
introvert, critical, radical feminism, woman’s body as a medium, instrument
and work of art, the quest for individual and artistic identity, identification
with femininity, intimate space), existential and socio-critical context, formal
context (strategies of performance realization, interactive communication, reenactment
practice).
The
demonstration
of
clashes,
parallelisms,
relationships, analogies, intersections, inter-image connections in the
performance works of presented artists reflects the intercultural dialogue of
arts.