Kathy O'Dell- Performance, Video, and Trouble in the Home 

The article opens with a discussion of The Honeymooners and its place within performance art as well as its step in the direction of challenging gender roles within what would be considered a standard 1950s home life (minus the presence of children). The television show relied heavily on the ideas of body and identity. Often using the body to refer to the physical body, but also to the home and the domestic settings. When reading this and thinking about that concepts of the body and the domestic I immediately thought of VALI EXPORT’S work facing a family where she held a mirror up to the typical tv dinner eating family. Within performance art the identification falls on both the “viewing subject “and the “subject viewed” meaning that the audience member is identifying with art and artist through the “art form's chief material- the body”. I think that is very interesting because it seems that one of the first things we do when we look at art is think of how we can relate it back to ourselves, and often we find that through the identification of a body of sorts. Constantly grabbing hold that the one commonality we all possess which the article calls a “fleshy sack of selfhood”. I really enjoyed the section regarding Meat Joy and the way it was described to use paint in a comedic way as opposed to this very strict proper medium. 

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