"Viva sin Agua", Performance art by Sebastian Bieniek (B1EN1EK), 2016 at the Art Basel Miami

Viva sin Agua - 2016

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"Viva sin Agua", Performance art
by Sebastian Bieniek (B1EN1EK), 2016

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)

"Viva sin Agua", Performance art by Sebastian Bieniek (B1EN1EK), 2016 at the Art Basel Miami art fair in cooperation with the Millerntor Gallery, Hamburg. Drinking water.

Sebastian Bieniek (B1EN1EK) was created by the Hamburg Millerntor Galerie in cooperation with the Viva con Agua de Sankt Pauli e. V. invited to do a performance at the Art Basel Miami art fair.

The performance should focus on the "waste of drinking water" in the western world.

The artist and the Viva con Agua e. V. wanted to draw the audience's attention to people who do not have enough water to drink in order to find partners with the help of whom this emergency could be eliminated.

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"Viva sin Agua", Performance art by Sebastian Bieniek (B1EN1EK), 2016 at the Art Basel Miami art fair in cooperation with the Millerntor Gallery, Hamburg. Drinking water.