"Here rests my Breath", Installation art by
Sebastian Bieniek (B1EN1EK), 1998
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. Or take the (big) "Please Ignore This" from 2018 and compare it to other Bieniektext textart. What's the difference? It's only the size.
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.
What is the differance between
Installation Art , "other conceptual art" and
sculpture?
Installation is somehow big. If you can't carry it away it's an Installation.
If it's small enough that you can carry it away and when it's technically not unique (so you can't recognize a signature by the making, or - even - somobody else did it, like the "overpainted Sebastian Bieniek") but - may be - by the "spin" of the idea, than it's Bieniek's "other conceptual art".
And than: sculpture is when it's made by the artist himself and one needs a little "artist like" skills to do it, or at least everbody would do it kind of different, but this "different" was made by the artist himself.
Nevertheless some artwork like "Recycled Sol LeWitt" , or the "The Stolen 100 DM" are still hard to collate. What is it? At the beginning it's "Action Art", than depending on the presentation, it could be an Installation (if you take a lot and make it big), and if you just take (one) the final result could also be a sculpture, but according to the definition "without special skills and skill-signature it's other conceptual art, it's "other conceptual art.
(Bieniek's definition)
"My Breath rests here" ("Hier Ruhm Mein Atem"), Installation art bySebastian Bieniek (B1EN1EK), 2000
"My breath rests here" ("Hier ruht mein Atem"), installation art. 5000 white balloons. On each of the balloons Sebastian Bieniek wrote down the sec., Min., Hour and date when it was inflated. Exhibited at the Museum der Charitè, Berlin (1998)
The idea behind the installation is to record what we want to produce without interruption, to pack it and save it. Similar to a metaphor for holding on to impermanence and our all too ephemeral life, Bieniek tries to secure evidence of our own decay.
"My breath rests here" ("Hier ruht mein Atem"), installation art. 5000 white balloons. On each of the balloons Sebastian Bieniek wrote down the sec., Min., Hour and date when it was inflated. Exhibited at the Museum der Charitè, Berlin (1998)
"My breath rests here" ("Hier ruht mein Atem"), installation art. 5000 white balloons. On each of the balloons Sebastian Bieniek wrote down the sec., Min., Hour and date when it was inflated. Exhibited at the Museum der Charitè, Berlin (1998)
"My breath rests here" ("Hier ruht mein Atem"), installation art. 5000 white balloons. On each of the balloons Sebastian Bieniek wrote down the sec., Min., Hour and date when it was inflated. Exhibited at the Museum der Charitè, Berlin (1998)
"My breath rests here" ("Hier ruht mein Atem"), installation art. 5000 white balloons. On each of the balloons Sebastian Bieniek wrote down the sec., Min., Hour and date when it was inflated. Exhibited at the Museum der Charitè, Berlin (1998)
"My breath rests here" ("Hier ruht mein Atem"), installation art. 5000 white balloons. On each of the balloons Sebastian Bieniek wrote down the sec., Min., Hour and date when it was inflated. Exhibited at the Museum der Charitè, Berlin (1998)
"My breath rests here" ("Hier ruht mein Atem"), installation art. 5000 white balloons. On each of the balloons Sebastian Bieniek wrote down the sec., Min., Hour and date when it was inflated. Exhibited at the Museum der Charitè, Berlin (1998)