Video 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 "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.
What is the differance between video art and film? Video art comes from the tradition of art and film from the tradition of entertainment (or educaton - in anyway film has a "service traditon", art not ) .
(Definition by Bieniek)
Sebastian Bieniek is already convincing in the art video "Becoming the Winner" (from 2016) by repeatedly saying "I'm the winner" in a different way for almost nineteen minutes. What can I say. After listening to "I'm the winner" for nineteen minutes, you have no choice but to believe him just for the sake of calm.
Link to the "The Climax of Modern Democracy" performance website...
"Becoming the Winner" video art by Sebastian Bieniek, 2019
Based on a video by Marina Abromovic, the artist Sebastian Bieniek repeatedly slaps his face, says "Art must be serious" and laughs. In doing so, the multidisciplinary artist contradicts the rigid and one-sided attitude of the artists of the previous generation of the 1970s, including Abramovic among others, and at the same time shows the new future. A multipolar future.
Sebstian Bieniek "Art must be serious" video art, 2013.
Sebastian Bieniek's mother showing him proudly the plowers that she pained over his photographs in 2012 and that became
"Overpainted Sebastian Bieniek". The decumentation of this process became an own "Video Artwork", it's name is "About Painting" ("Über Malen").
Sebastian Bieniek's mother showing him proudly the plowers that she pained over his photographs in 2012 and that became
"Overpainted Sebastian Bieniek". The decumentation of this process
became an own "Video Artwork", it's name is "About Painting" ("Über Malen").
"The 30€ Truth" ("Die 30€ Wahrheit"), 2012, video still. In the following video, Sebastian Bieniek asks about himself and, with the help of random passers-by, including a Burger King employee, looks for himself to hand over a package.
Link to the "The 30€ Truth" ("Die 30€ Wahrheit"), video art website...
"The 30€ Truth" ("Die 30€ Wahrheit"), 2012, video still. In the following video, Sebastian Bieniek asks about himself and, with the help of random passers-by, including a Burger King employee, looks for himself to hand over a package.
"Crying for this video", video art by Sebastian Bieniek, 1999. As with many of his other works, Sebastian Bieniek depicts the truth as untruth. The wanderer between realities that he seems to be plays with what is and is not like with two twin siblings who alternately swap roles.
"Crying for this video", video art by Sebastian Bieniek, 1999.