When I saw Albert Reyes’s video on youTube I though about Pollock’s rhythmic use of paint and his drip technique: He would poke a hole in the bottom of a tin can of paint to get an extended drip line. Pollock’s technique of pouring and dripping paint is thought to be one of the origins of the term action painting . Another dripping is the Shigeko Kubota performing her Vagina Painting, at Cinemateque, during Perpetual Fluxus Festival New York City . The most visible aspect of those “body art movements” was the irreverent style.
The roots of this “utterance” lie in early 20th-century Fururistic rebellions and Cubist experiments with mixed media, further accomplished Dada performances. However, the antecedent of performance art, can be found in the happenings of the late 1950s and the 1960s : Fluxus performances were usually brief and simple. Event scores such as George Brecht’s “Drip Music”, are essentially performance scripts consist of descriptions of actions to be performed rather than dialogue.
First performer on a tall ladder pours water from a pitcher very slowly down into the bell of a French horn or tuba held in the playing position by a second performer at floor level
Fluxus happenings and performances have progressily incorporated vary elements as electronic music, song, dance, television, film, sculpture, spoken dialogue, and storytelling.
Albert Reyes has been known to spit art on his hands and knees with a mouth full of beer in the middle of the street which tackles both performance and graffiti art inspired not only by street art, comic books, and American pop culture; but also by icons of corporate America to Hollywood stars to mass media to politics to consumerism. Toward a new Refluxus? http://pimplywimp.com/
