"Nothing" ("Nichts"), Performance art by
Sebastian Bieniek (B1EN1EK), 2010
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)
Sebastian Bieniek is selling "Nothing", performance at the Christmas market at Alexa, Berlin, 2010.
In 2010 at the Christmas market at Alexa, near Janowitzbrücke in Berlin, Sebastian Bieniek successfully sold "nothing". At the place where everything can be sold for threefold, wrapped in Christmas fever, Sebastian Bieniek sold notes on which "Nothing" was in the price range between one and one hundred million euros.
Sebastian Bieniek is selling "Nothing", performance at the Christmas market at Alexa, Berlin, 2010.
Sebastian Bieniek is selling "Nothing", performance at the Christmas market at Alexa, Berlin, 2010.
Sebastian Bieniek is selling "Nothing", performance at the Christmas market at Alexa, Berlin, 2010.
Sebastian Bieniek is selling "Nothing", performance at the Christmas market at Alexa, Berlin, 2010.