Notes i dades per a un estudi inicial de l'activitat «performance» a Catalunya

Abstract

Among so many expressive possibilities of the alternative form, the art based on action, and, more exactly, the performance, have no roots in Catalonia, where the most established artistic tradition was painting.

That is the reason why, in spite of the fact that the Catalan artists living in Paris or New York have cultivated that practice a lot and influenced positively on Catalonia during the last years, there is not a dynamic peculiar to the performance in Catalonia.

Nevertheless, various appreciations can be proved. First, the continuous and effective approach of sectors near the plastic activity, music and the most experimental visual poetry (the poets Joan Brossa, Jordi Valles, Josep Mª Calleja; the musicians Mestres Quadreny, Juan Hidalgo, Carles Santos, Eduardo Polonio).

Second, among the few Catalan artists who have cultivated that activity, it is necessary to refer to sorne nuances including the performance as the expression and directe use of the body (Carlos Pazos, Jordi Benito), the importance of the inside world (Francesc Torres, Angels Ribé) and the emphais on the process of the work (Pere Noguera).

lt is also necessary to say that at the beginning of the eighties that practice was consolidated, so that nowadays, already integrated from the viewpoint of the action, develops itself in a total accepted way. On the other hand, man y artists who consacrated themselves to it in the seventies, have already given it up. That practice has changed from the most direct actiori into more complex, sophisticated and aesthetic positions.