"Action Art" by Sebastian Bieniek (B1EN1EK)
What is the difference between "Performance", "Action Art", "Installation Art" and
Video Art?
When the artist or the body of the artist is in focus, so the acting is part of the artwork, it's a performance. When the artist isn't visible but it's still about people and when it's that fast changing in time that you can see the "Beginning" and then "End", than it's "Action Art" (Happaning is kind of outsourced - not directed by a single artist but by many). Installation is when you can't see it "changing" in time, so it looks always the same, or can be at least restored, and when it's about objects.
However even still some installations like "My Breath rests here" ("Hier ruht mein Atem") have some performance character (at least in the creation phase), but than again not really, because than "the painting of a painting" could be also a performance, so it's more about the focus.
A recorded and shown as a video performance, without real life viewer and the interaction with the viewer like "The 30 € truth" or "Crying for this Video" for example is a
video. (Definition by Bieniek)
"Deja Vu", performance/short-movie by Sebastian Bieniek, 2002, Galerie 35, Simon-Dach-Str. Berlin.
"Deja Vu", performance/short-movie by Sebastian Bieniek, 2002, Galerie 35, Simon-Dach-Str. Berlin.
"Picture of Equality/Picture of Differance", Action Artby Sebastian Bieniek, Venice, 2001. Bieniek asked every visitor to give him his complete wallet and he pinned on the wall what was inside - and every visitor trusted him and gaved him his complete walled. You can see: money, ID cards, telefon numbers, condoms, photographs... on the wall.
Link to the "Picture of Equality/Picture of Differance" Action Art artwork website...
Sebstian Bieniek "Picture of Equality/Picture of Differance", Venice, 2001
"I'm not a Nazi" ("Ich bin kein Nazi"), Action Art (Aktion/Aktionskunst) by Sebastian Bieniek (B1EN1EK). Berlin, 1998. Großer Stern, Berlin. Bieniek had pasted election posters with a photo of Adolf Hitler to protest against the now so common election lies. Lies that show that in the election time anything can be said, nothing is true and nobody cares, because nobody's responsible for telling truth and nobody does. The politics and also the life is like instagram: "everybody just cares to be beautiful in the one-second-moment of a like or a vote".
"I'm not a Nazi" ("Ich bin kein Nazi"), Berlin, Sebastian Bieniek 1998