„Bal Umagbe La“, performance
by Sebastian Bieniek, 2018.
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)
„Bal Umagbe La“, performance by Sebastian Bieniek,
Pejman Foundation, Tehran/Iran 2018.
Invited by the curator Robbie Vafai, Sebastian Bieniek spent two weeks (july 8-22) in the capital of Iran, Tehran, where he made an exhibition and a performance at the Pejman Foundation.
The name of the performance was "Bal Umagba La". It consisted of a highly political speech that had nothing to say and was not given in any known language. The exhibition visitors were nevertheless very interested.
Somehow it shows what Sebastian Bieniek meant to know anyway, that it "does not matter anyway".
Sebastian Bieniek believes that we live in a "does not matter anyway" time. He believes that if the historians of the future will one day think about the name for our time, the name will be "the does not matter anyway time".
This is somehow at the same time, the time of searching for a meaing. May be a forgotten or a lost meaning. May be for a fullness among emptiness, may be for the answer of the unspoken question.
Invited by the curator Robbie Vafai, Sebastian Bieniek spent two weeks (july 8-22) in the capital of Iran, Tehran, where he made an exhibition and a performance at the Pejman Foundation.The name of the performance was "Bal Umagba La". It consisted of a highly political speech that had nothing to say and was not given in any known language. The exhibition visitors were nevertheless very interested.
Invited by the curator Robbie Vafai, Sebastian Bieniek spent two weeks (july 8-22) in the capital of Iran, Tehran, where he made an exhibition and a performance at the Pejman Foundation.The name of the performance was "Bal Umagba La". It consisted of a highly political speech that had nothing to say and was not given in any known language. The exhibition visitors were nevertheless very interested.
Invited by the curator Robbie Vafai, Sebastian Bieniek spent two weeks (july 8-22) in the capital of Iran, Tehran, where he made an exhibition and a performance at the Pejman Foundation.The name of the performance was "Bal Umagba La". It consisted of a highly political speech that had nothing to say and was not given in any known language. The exhibition visitors were nevertheless very interested.