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Contemporary Art
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Body Specific Art: Works created with a heavy emphasis on the artists' physical bodies. Whether through the use of the body as the art object, or the bodies use as a tool for making.
Marina Abramović - Rhythm O 
Abramović stood silently while the audience used a variety of objects to interact with her. The open ended nature of the performance art allowed viewers to reveal their intention and desires for what the piece should be and highlighted the blurred line between artists and their art. She gave up agency over her being and surrendered her physical form over to the audience.
Carole Schneeman - Interior Scroll
After disrobbing and removing a scroll from inside herself, Schneeman reads the statement on the paper Schneeman's work directly relied on her body, as the statement physically came out of her. Conceptually, the piece is in conversation with the feminine form and societies relationship to it.
Cassils - Becoming an image
In this performance, the artist uses their body to physically shape a large pile of clay. Through the viewing of the process the body is turned into a tool although also shown as a force of strength.
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James [Yaya' Hough - I Am the Economy In this watercolor work, Hough comments on the prison. industrial system and its reduction of individuals into working bodies used for financial profit. As someone whose experienced incarceration, Hough's physical body experienced lack of agency.
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In the essay, Framing Performance, Taylor discusses the role of the artists body in their art specifically focusing on the role of the body in performance based art.
Medium Specific : Art which relies on the medium in which it's created. Whether continuing or rejecting the history of the medium or reliant on the physical characteristics of the material.
Paul Sharits - TOUCHING. Using Using film and audio in a piece of experimental film, this work relies on the time and sound the viewer experiences to produce a hypnotic experience.The inclusion of self mutalation and violet undertones also speak to the war at the time in Vietnam.
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Roberto Lugo - 40 cooler 4 This piece references a history of drinking vessels as well as modern consumptions of alcohol. The ceramic piece additionally references Luges personal identity. In these ways the piece relies on its medium, a history ad the artists personal identities.
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Betty Woodman - Pillow Pitcher This piece speaks on a history of pottery and ceramics. Woodman discusses the false stratification which considered pottery a lesser form of art. Painting, often considered a fine art form, is brought onto the surface area of a ceramic vessel to discuss this segregation.
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Vilém Flusser's essay Form and Material discusses the changing role of material in the art world and specifically the notion of post-matireal art.
Sculpture in the Expanded Field by Krauss discusses how expanding material selection and creation expands the term of sculpture but in distinct ways still connected to the larger history of sculpture.
Portrait of Mnoja by Mickalene Thomas uses unconventional materials within the medium of painting to depict a women in a position of strength and regality. Sequins and glitter are used to elevate a history of craft
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