1. 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.

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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”

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

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

9. Using public space to express political opinions

10. An other style Of communication With the use of public space

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

12. woodstock 1969

14. Rejection of strict rules Sexual revolution

15. 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

16. 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

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

18. 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”

19. ‘living in a shopping mall and sleeping next door’

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

21. 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

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

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

24. What is next???

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

26. functional

27. performance

28. Referring to other periods of history And mixing them together

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

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

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

32. Design with your senses For the senses

33. “Form follows senses”

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

35. Performance “involved in space ”