"Wrapping" ("Einwicklung"), Performance art by Sebastian Bieniek (B1EN1EK), 2011
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, performance during the german tv program "It's about my life" (ger. "Es geht um mein Leben") on the subject of "Modern Art" with Pierre Krause (ARD), 2011.
During the ARD program "It's about my life" on the subject of "Modern Art" on November 15, 2011, to which Sebastian Bieniek was invited, the artist wrapped the entire film team in aluminum foil. This is his first work on the subject of "wrapping".
The idea behind the performance was to connect people with each other and thereby create something "different" (by putting them together).
Sebastian Bieniek, performance during the german tv program "It's about my life" (ger. "Es geht um mein Leben") on the subject of "Modern Art" with Pierre Krause (ARD), 2011.