Body Art. Body and Corporal Space. The artistic actions done with the body creates new space based realities considered art

Abstract

This article is an investigation whose objective is the study of the so-called Body Art, where artists use the body placing it on space and using it as corporal architecture. We justify this study because the Performance Art works done by the artists articulate some works which investigates the relationship between space-time and the body; some pieces show how the body action creates space. Based on symbolic analysis proposed by Victor Turner as the methodology for this study, we analyze the works of the pioneering artists in this form of artistic creation, demonstrating that were parts of what is now known by the generic name of Performance Art. We arrived at different conclusions in this study: that the Body Art is the language of expression of Performance Art; in all the works analyzed the artist's body is the dominant symbol; the most outstanding feature of Body Art is the provocation of the viewer; the works analyzed exhibit an ephemeral value and a hybrid character as different artistic expressions are combined to produce the work (bodily action, music, video, film and television projections); artistic actions do not produce any art object that can be bought or sold, the action done by the body in space is the artwork.