Irma Optimist’s reply to our projects: What is performance art? and Timeline of performance art

Irma Optimist, 2011-10-27

From a performer's point of view a performance deals with certain dynamics which do not exactly begin or end with the performance: performances are instantly visible fixed points of a feedback process. A performer uses the time available to plan performances and to observe new ways to comment as an artist. The micro circuit of performances expands into a macro net of retrospective dimensions.

What is performance art?

A performance tunes in a situation into an organisation of chaos or chaos of an organisation. Its dynamics can lie in the relationship between performer, audience and the elements of the performance. Performance art has no narrative rules and no controlling formal restrictions. In a performance a certain action or many different actions, which can separate directly to distinct directions, are realised. A performance may occur also indirectly in different, variable, both stable and unstable dimensions. Random factors too effect the order or disorder of it. Time in a performance is sensed through those velocities and speeds which manifest themselves within it.

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Timeline of performance art

Irma Optimist made her first performance Hopeataivas in spring 1989 in the Art Amy Gallery in Vaasa, Finland during Pekka Luhta’s exhibition opening.
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