Post-modern Performance art is totally independent the performance is in front of an audience or the audience becomes the performers The performance may be scripted or improvisational The perfomance incorporates music, dance or complete silence The audience buy tickets for the performance or the performance is be free or the performer pay the audience to watch the performance. Performance art can happen anywhere, at any time, or for any length of time. Performance art can be any situation that involves four basic elements: time, space, the performer's body and a relationship between performer and audience.

Postmodernism is a reaction on Modernism PoMo has its origin in the failure of Modern Architecture. Postmodernists felt the buildings failed to meet human need for comfort, both physically & sensory (‘for the eye’). Modernists did not account for the desire for beauty. Postmodernists sought to cure this by reintroducing ornament & decoration Monotonous apartment blocks changed into slums

Characteristics of Modern Architecture a rejection of historical styles as a source of form a rejection of ornament & decoration & “unnecessary” detail functions & materials determine the result: ‘form follows function’ simplification of form, expressed structure: machine aesthetics

Postmodernism & Modernism 1.rejection of strict rules 2.ornament & reference 3.communication 4.customer/user responsive 5.context & uniqueness 1.pragmatic/dogmatic 2.rejection of decoration 3.revolution 4.machines for living & working 5. communality & mass product

Postmodernism versus Modernism Modernism is: minimalist anonymous monotonous boring Postmodernism is: cluttered vulgar frivolous “kitsch” Mies van der Rohe: “less is more” Robert Venturi: “less is a bore”

…but what was going on…what were people doing?

Rock ‘n roll was not only a style of music or dance It was a lifestyle with an own Communication & social behaviour

Using public space to express political opinions

An other style Of communication With the use of public space

Flower power for peace ‘Bed-in’ a performance of John lennon & yoko ono In the hilton hotel in amsterdam

woodstock 1969

Rejection of strict rules Sexual revolution

the sexual revolution and its consequences… Sexuality became a new social movement Shifts in the relations between women & men women’s liberation movement women’s presence in public sexual expression the gay & lesbian movement

Today's Life style has changed performance from A special event at a particular place to d a i l y e x c I t e m e n t & E n t e r t a I n m e n t: While doing our shopping, at the same Time we are watching a performance and “Loose” no time

Shopping is an adventure, having fun… Shops are performance spaces

Time does not exist in shopping malls…they make Use of attractions & performances to keep public As long as possible Inside of the malls “Time is money”

‘living in a shopping mall and sleeping next door’

We see more performances per day than we know The performance of public space is The power of public space

Fast (a lot of information at the same time) Flashy (means high sensory stimulation) Digital (no space-dependence – digital nomads) Today's Life style is

new experience of: Communication Distance Tempo of life Quantity of functions Mass production & mass attraction Making pics

Old fashioned is in! Quality no impersonal, soulless mass products … making photographs

What is next???

Mass media is performing an illusion with tremendous impact on social behaviour Trends & hypes… Being ‘up to date’ Identity… Belonging to

functional

performance

Referring to other periods of history And mixing them together

Famous architects designing Performance spaces… A new ‘hype’? “Choreographers ‘teaming up’ with Famous architects for fluidity Of dance & cyberscape”(?)

“Form follows function” “form follows fun” “… ???...”

Architecture is not purely visual, intellectual Or conceptual…it should stimulate all senses ‘the dream of vision’

Design with your senses For the senses

“Form follows senses”

Reading reference ’the eyes of the skin’ ……… Juhani pallasmaa ‘The language of space’……bryan lawson ‘the architect's eye’………….tom porter

Performance “involved in space ”