In the last years, Gerhard Dirmoser and ASA-European developed the Performance-Art-Context. The research include material since 1948 with some views back to Futurism, DADA, etc.
The form of this context is a diagram in the size of a poster (ca. 240cm x 180cm), split in 4 parts. Included in this diagram are ca. 32 views in context of live, social relations, society, arts of humanities, philosophical relations, personal identities, body examinations, and so on;
90 definitions of performance art and performing arts, hundred of names from artists and literature, titles from exemplary books in this 32 views.
http://www.asa.de/research/kontext/
◇ Boris Nieslony & Gerhard Dirmoser
BORIS NIESLONY (born 1945 in Grimma, Germany) is a performance artist, researcher and archivist based in Cologne. He is the founder of the ASA Art Service Association, as well as one of the founding members of the art group Black Market International (BMI).
GERHARD DIRMOSER is an Austrian artist and system analyst based in Linz, researching primarily semantic networks.
The VENICE INTERNATIONAL PERFORMANCE ART WEEK shows Performance-Art Context, A0 size map. Over the period of fifteen years, Nieslony and Dirmoser have been researching material and concluded with a complex semantic map that shows an impressive amount of visible and invisible connections between categories, theories, movements, methodologies and more references with Performance Art. A context of life, social relations, society, arts of humanities, philosophy, personal identities and body examinations conjure to about ninety definitions of Performance Art and Performing Arts, through hundred of names of artists and from literature. The viewer can submerge him/herself through this map (which comes with a magnifying glass) into a cosmos of relations and influences.
Boris Nieslony will be present to offer the viewer the opportunity to continue the map, to add new elements to it, and to discuss arrangements and relations.
http://www.veniceperformanceart.org/index.php?page=189&lang=en
◇ Gerhard Dirmoser
http://ftp.ok-centrum.at/ausstellungen/larsen/dirmoser.html
◇ PERFORMANCE ART CONTEXT
http://gerhard_dirmoser.public1.linz.at/A0/Perform_Basis06_A0_en_last.pdf
