"How To Hatch A Painting", Performance by
Sebastian Bieniek, 2012
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)
"How To Hatch A Painting" (ger. "Wie man ein Gemälde ausbrütet", performance by Sebastian Bieniek at the Art Market Budapest, booth of Lena Roselli Gallery, 2012
In November 2012, Sebastian Bieniek was invited by the Lena Roselli Gallery in Budapest to take part in the Art Market Budapest 2012 art fair with his paintings and a performance at the gallery's booth.
Sebastian Bieniek then disguised himself as a chicken, and after running through the "Kikiriki" (Hungarian "Kot-kot-kodat") mass, he sat down on a canvas and several liters of paint.
In the hour that followed, he literally hatched a picture.
"How To Hatch A Painting" (ger. "Wie man ein Gemälde ausbrütet", performance by Sebastian Bieniek at the Art Market Budapest, booth of Lena Roselli Gallery, 2012
"How To Hatch A Painting" (ger. "Wie man ein Gemälde ausbrütet", performance by Sebastian Bieniek at the Art Market Budapest, booth of Lena Roselli Gallery, 2012
"How To Hatch A Painting" (ger. "Wie man ein Gemälde ausbrütet", performance by Sebastian Bieniek at the Art Market Budapest, booth of Lena Roselli Gallery, 2012