Obdurance Art
The Complete History of Obdurance Art, from 1860 until the present, 2010 20 min lecture performance by Ieva Miseviciute & Michael Portnoy
Performed at Centre Pompidou, Paris - within the exhibition Repetition Island, curated by Raimundas Malasuaskas And presented at CAC Vilnius
A lecture performance about Obdurance Art, a subcurrent of artisitc activity originating in the mid-19th Century which touches on and has influenced fields as diverse as performance art, degree-zero dance, social psychology, avant-garde theatre, conceptual and participatory art, ludic studies, Hybridism, OULIPO, and early 20th Century Russian Absurdism.
