"Installation Art" by Sebastian Bieniek (B1EN1EK)
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 "Here rests my Breath" ("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.
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 finally:
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.
(Bieniek's definition)
"Life is Bad" ("Die Welt ist schlecht" & "Le Monde est cruel"), Art Installation by Sebastian Bieniek (B1EN1EK), 2000. Installed in front of the prison of Celle and Rennes. Sebastian Bieniek visualised and installed on a huge poster in front of the prison exit in Rennes the fastest train connection to the prison in Celle and in front of Celle prisons's exit the vice versa train connection to the prison in Rennes.
Sebastian Bieniek, "The Life is Bad" installation, 2000.
"The Bag Tree", art installation with 400 supermarket bags on a 40 meter cedar tree. Saar-Palatinate Art Prize, Bexbach, city gardens. This work is an allusion to commercialization. The original German title refers to the best known German Christmas song ("Oh Tannenbaum"), which is a symbol for the takover of commercialization.
"Bag Tree" ("Oh Tütenbaum"), Installation art bySebastian Bieniek (B1EN1EK), 2000.
"Here rests my Breath" ("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)
Link to the "Here rests my Breath" ("Hier ruht mein Atem") installation website...
"Here rests my Breath" ("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)