Performance Art Research Articles

Contemporary Actionism as a Total Work of Art

The following report explores Richard Wagner’s concept of total art or Gesamtkunstwerk, a notion that gained prominence in the 19th century and found resonance in Symbolist art. This movement interpreted total art as a synthesis of various artistic forms, particularly music and theatre, infused with spiritual significance. Our objective is to demonstrate that in contemporary performative art, the integration of diverse media could give rise to a comprehensive work of art, akin to Wagner’s original vision. The article contends that performative art and actionism, by employing complementary artistic elements such as music, literature, theatre, objects, installations, and painting, have the potential to evolve into a unified and spiritually enriched work of art.

Local Interactions and Practices: A Case of Eastern Tibet's Reba Dance, China

The Reba dance of Eastern Tibet, a vital aspect of China's intangible cultural heritage, has been significantly influenced by national cultural policies since the 1980s. This context necessitates an examination of the practices of folk groups and local intellectuals, as practical subjects, which have been overlooked in previous studies. By using the ethnographic method and Bourdieu's concept of agency, this study seeks to analyse how these two practical subjects collaborate and interact in the practice of art festivals, performances, and teaching under the structure of national policies. By exercising their agency, the study emphasises that in the preservation process, folk groups and local intellectuals play crucial roles as primary practical subjects. This study argues that, in the preservation and inheritance process of Reba dance in Eastern Tibet, the relationship between the state, local intellectuals, and folk groups is not a one-way operation of the government and intellectuals but involves a strategic interaction of multiple subjects' practices. while the state appropriates and shapes folk dance through its policies, folk groups and local intellectuals, as the practical subjects, strategically respond to these policies, further facilitating the inheritance of Reba dance.

The Image Rhetoric and Narrative Aesthetics of “Teasing and Irony” in Contemporary Chinese Art

Abstract The “scar art” of the 1980s mainly came from reflection on and criticism of the entire society. In 1990s China, influenced by both Western modernism and postmodernism, a phenomenon of “Teasing and Irony” emerged in contemporary Chinese art. At this time, contemporary art began to present a state of deconstruction from poetry, novels, film and television, art, performance art, conceptual art and so on, to people’s real lives. Deconstruction of authority and of classics became the pursuit of the times. The emergence of this cultural trend of Teasing and Irony involved a game of power and discourse. There were also expressions of criticism, ridicule, irony and kitsch, forming an abnormal postmodern narrative aesthetic that formed the main ecology of contemporary Chinese art in the 1990s.

New objects of research in algorithmic aesthetics: dance performance and choreographic art practice

The article explores the way in which new objects of study, such as dance performance and art–practice, emerge in algorithmic aesthetics. The advent of digital communicative practices shapes new means of formalization of dance performance scripts, which nowadays have various technological solutions, including algorithmic ones. Classical aesthetics is unable to describe the technological modernization of artistic expression. The author offers a general framework of algorithmic aesthetics to study of dance performance and art practice.

Survival Stacking Ensemble Model for Lung Cancer Risk Prediction.

The most well-established risk factor for lung cancer (LC) is smoking, responsible for approximately 85% of cases. The Lung Cancer Risk Assessment Tool (LCRAT) is a key advancement in this field, which predicts individual risk based on factors like smoking habits, demographic details, personal and family medical history, and environmental exposures. This paper proposes a model with fewer features that improves state of the art performance, using a simplified stacking ensemble, making it more accessible and easier to implement in routine healthcare practice. The data used in this work were derived from two cohorts in the United States: The National Lung Screening Trial (NLST) and the Prostate, Lung, Colorectal, and Ovarian (PLCO) Cancer Screening Trial. Both our model and LCRAT achieve an AUC of 0.799 and 0.782 on test respectively. In terms of percentage of positives, in the 50% of the population, both detect 0.766 and 0.754 of the cases. The ensemble of different survival models enhances robustness by mitigating the weakness of individual models and directly impacts the efficiency of the model, increasing the efficiency and generalizability.

The Strangeness of Artistic Performance in the Islamic Era between Uniqueness and Necessity (An Analytical Study)

Objectives: The research aims to understand the phenomenon of strangeness in performance among some Islamic poets and to identify the reasons for resorting to it. It seeks to determine whether this was merely a choice to highlight individuality and literary talent or if it was due to necessity. Method: The research studies the phenomenon of strangeness according to an analytical method by breaking down the research problem into its primary components: strangeness of vocabulary, strangeness of meaning, strangeness of sound, and strangeness of structure. This division facilitates the study process and helps identify the reasons that led to its emergence in the Islamic era. Results: The inclination towards the use of strange vocabulary is a technique adopted by some poets due to their environment and sometimes to achieve distinction. Poets may be compelled to use complex structures to adhere to poetic meter, and they may employ some unusual metrical feet to break the monotony of the rhythm, as seen in the Rjaz form. Conclusion: The phenomenon of performance strangeness in Islamic poetry exists in various forms, prompting critics to explicitly reference certain instances. It does not always conform to the concept of poetic necessity; rather, it may reflect the poet's desire for uniqueness or stem from a weakness in artistic performance. This strangeness varies from the use of exotic vocabulary or complex linguistic structures to unusual poetic images and rare metrical patterns.

Between the Archive and the Feed

This article discusses feminist performance and internet art practices of the 21st century through the lens of Boris Groys’s theory of innovation. It analyses works by Signe Pierce, Molly Soda, and Maya Man, to position practices of self-documentation online in exchange with feminist art histories of performance and electronic media. The text proposes that the discussed contemporary art practices fulfil the process of innovation detailed by Groys through a process of re-valuation of values via an exchange between the everyday, trivial, and heterogenous realm of social media (‘the profane’) and the valorised realm of cultural memory (‘the archive’). Using digital ethnography and contextual analysis, framed by the theory of innovation, the text introduced ‘content value’ as a feature of contemporary art on the Internet. The article demonstrates how feminist internet art practices expand on cultural value through the realisation of a process of innovation via an intra-cultural exchange between the feed and the institution.

Ethno-Design of Galicia at the Beginning of the 20th Century

The aim of the research is the factors and backgrounds formation of Galicia ethno-design at the beginning of XX century. The processes, which influenced the area of ethno-design development, have completely been spotlighted in the work. Its formation is being considered as the cultural event interrelated with the historic-economical, geographical, social-cultural changes in the region of the investigated period. Research methods: search-analytical (identification, literature analysis and origin foundation), historical (research of events and phenomena development), chronological (events consideration in the time consistency), logical-synthetic (factors, events and phenomena analysis), generalization and systematization results. Scientific novelty. In the research the backgrounds and features of regional manner-designed heritage formation have been revealed which are rooted in the unique folk art, folk art traditions, grand work of regional rules formation and stylization, ethno-pedagogics principles application in familial art upbringing, formation of private craft and art-industrial schools in the area, and so forth. Conclusions. As the result it has been concluded that the Galicia ethno-design at the beginning of the last century was characterized by the distinctive art and art-industrial traditions which influenced the unique Ukrainian style separation based on the West-European achievements. Different kinds of folk art, craft and homecraft played the important role in those processes. Through the nature forms and reasons stylization they gained their signs and colors semantics inherent of the area. The background of Galicia ethno-design development has become the esthetic tastes formation in family training of children and youth, ethno-pedagogical phenomenon of the regional art dynasties, foundation and performance of educational establishments with the national art-industrial culture of the area. It is highly important to use this experience in the professional training of Ukrainian designers.

Ecologies of Embodiment: Video Essays III

Polly Hudson, “These Hands: an EcoSomatic approach to a woman’s labour - of the body, and on the land” (6:31). This video essay is part of an ongoing practice as a gardener and dancer, a long-term project at an inner city urban allotment, entitled And So we Sow. The work responds to notions of women's labour from an EcoSomatic and eco-feminist perspective, drawing on principles from releasing dance practices particularly Skinner Releasing Technique, from permaculture, and from wider embodied engagement. // Ana Luiza Azevedo Dupas, “Practice of Resting, Reading and Translating the Text: ‘Hapticality, or Love’” (9:52). This video shows fragments of the workshop: “Practice of resting, reading and translating the text: ‘Hapticality or love’,” held online in the context of IV EIRPAC event in September 2021. From the practice of Eutony, participants of the workshop are invited to a somatic reading, and “transcreation” of the text, which is an excerpt from Fred Moten and Stefano Harney’s The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black Study. // Lea Spahn and Hana Magdonova, “‘Within the Memories of a Mountain’: Posthuman Embodying as Techno-material Becoming” (11:00). This video essay is based on footage from performance artist Hana Magdoňová during her 39-day stay in Hády – a renaturating quarry in the post-socialist Czech Republic. Through an immersive layering of (video)images, sounds, and spoken words, the essay depics embodied encounters with this space and reads them through feminist materialist and posthumanist thinkers highlighting the entanglement of bodies, technologies, things, and other beings on a planetary scale.

The Development of Performing Folk Songs Model to Develop Holistic Health in Elderly

This research aims to study the problems and factors in organizing activities to promote holistic health in the elderly, Elderly Social Welfare Development Center, and to develop activities in the art of performing folk songs to promote holistic health in the elderly, Elderly Social Welfare Development Center. It is a study that aims to extract knowledge about the process of organizing activities for the elderly in order to develop a form of folk song performing arts activities to develop holistic health in the elderly as a research and development model Divided into 3 phases: Phase 1 synthesizes knowledge on organizing activities for the elderly, Phase 2 develops and evaluates traditional performing arts activities to develop holistic health in the elderly, and Phase 3 uses Folk performing arts activity format for holistic health development in the elderly. The research tool used was a structured interview form and satisfaction assessment form for organizing activities. All analysis results are presented as descriptive data and tables with explanations. The findings revealed Problems and factors in organizing activities to promote holistic health in the elderly at the Elderly Social Welfare Development Center. The researcher can summarize into two issues: 1) The current condition of organizing activities to promote the health of the elderly at the 12 Elderly Social Welfare Development Centers has three formats: ordinary elderly, particular types, and centers without elderly residents. In terms of operations for caring for and promoting the elderly, there will be an operation plan for the center that promotes the health of the elderly. There are four areas: physical, mental, and social interaction and intelligence. 2) Factors in organizing activities to promote holistic health in the elderly. The Center for the Development of Social Welfare for the Elderly found that opinions and needs for bringing in local wisdom heritage, in terms of performing arts, all four regions came to organize activities to promote the health of the elderly at all 12 Elderly Social Welfare Development Centers. There were two issues: 1) Perspectives and opinions. It was found that bringing both local performing arts and four regionally organized activities to promote the health of the elderly within the center. It is a good and exciting activity. Most elderly people enjoy fun activities, including singing and dancing. It is also a matter of Folk performing arts that can understand the emotions and feelings of the elderly very well. It also helps promote and stimulate the memory of the elderly. 2) The need to bring local wisdom and heritage. In terms of performing arts, all four regions came to organize activities to promote the health of the elderly at all 12 Elderly Social Welfare Development Centers. It was found that there was a need to organize activities to promote the health of the elderly using all Folk performing arts. The aim is to organize activities that can develop the physical, mental, social, and intellectual aspects. The results of the development of activities in the art of performing folk songs to promote holistic health in the elderly have two crucial points: 1) The uniqueness of the art of folk song performance that has an impact on society is that it reflects the culture of the community, build relationships among people in the community, have fun public relations media and self-development 2) The results of creating and developing an art activity format for performing folk songs to promote holistic health in the elderly. The researcher created and developed a folk song performance art activity model consisting of 6 elements: principles of the form, Objectives of the format, content, activities, promoting factors, and evaluation

The influence of aerobic capacity on the loads and intensities of mixed martial arts sparring bouts

ABSTRACT The influence of aerobic variables on mixed martial arts (MMA) performance is currently unknown. This study aimed to compare the laboratory-measured aerobic variables of MMA participants to the external load and intensity of MMA sparring bouts to determine the effect of aerobic capacity on performance. Ten participants (age = 24 ± 2.8 years; mass = 74.3 ± 8.2 kg; stature = 176.8 ± 7.9 cm) completed the following: a treadmill-graded exercise test to measure V̇O2max, VT1 and VT2; 3 × 5 mins sparring bout equipped with a Catapult Optimeye S5 accelerometer recording Playerload (PLdACC) and Playerload per minute (PLdACC∙min−1), with a sessional rating of perceived exertion (sRPE) recorded as internal intensity. Median V̇O2max (53.3 ml∙kg∙min−1) was used to split the cohort into the top 50% and bottom 50%. Pearson’s r correlations (BF10 ≥ 3) were calculated between GXT and sparring variables. V̇O2max (53.1 ± 5.9 ml∙kg∙min−1) was found to have very large (r ≥ .70) linear relationships with PLdACC (161.4 ± 27.2 AU) and PLdACC∙min−1 (10.7 ± 1.8AU). The top 50% group maintained moderate sRPE (4-6AU) and greater PLdACC∙min−1 throughout the bout, with the bottom 50% group’s sRPE moving from moderate to high (>7AU) indicating V̇O2max <53 ml∙kg∙min−1 is related to increased internal intensity. These data support the aerobic nature of MMA and may provide aerobic capacity targets for athletes and coaches to aim for during competition preparation.

Line of Desire. The Work of Omar Matadamas Seen through Corporeality and the Philosophy of Event

This article1 is shaped by a trajectory of back and forth on various topics, starting with a minimal review of the history of performance art theory in Mexico, then analysing the place of the philosophy of the event and corporeality in performance art, and finally exploring the strategies for making desire habitable through the work of the Mexican artist Omar Matadamas. In the first section, I discuss a series of ideas surrounding the implications of performance art in the current Mexican theoretical horizon; in the other pole I recur to the work of the artist Omar Matadamas and his series Sicalíptico (2017), as well as his collaboration with Grupo D3 Chok3 (“Clash Group”), to think in the proximity of politics of intimacy and desire in art created by sexual dissidents.

Exploring the Intersection of Social Justice and Health through Art

This paper examines the role of art in advocating for social justice and addressing health disparities. It highlights how various artistic mediums such as photography, installations, performance, and visual arts serve as powerful tools to communicate the complexities of structural inequality and promote public health advocacy. The review discusses the intersection of art and politics, as well as the potential for art to shift perspectives, foster empathy, and influence policy. It delves into case studies where artistic initiatives have contributed to health advocacy, particularly in marginalized communities, and demonstrates how art can be an effective therapeutic tool for healing, empowerment, and mobilization for health equity. Keywords: Social Justice, Health Disparities, Art and Activism, Health Equity, Community Engagement.

Double-Condensing Attention Condenser: Leveraging Attention in Deep Learning to Detect Skin Cancer from Skin Lesion Images.

Skin cancer is the most common type of cancer in the United States and is estimated to affect one in five Americans. Recent advances have demonstrated strong performance on skin cancer detection, as exemplified by state of the art performance in the SIIM-ISIC Melanoma Classification Challenge; however, these solutions leverage ensembles of complex deep neural architectures requiring immense storage and computation costs, and therefore may not be tractable. A recent movement for TinyML applications is integrating Double-Condensing Attention Condensers (DC-AC) into a self-attention neural network backbone architecture to allow for faster and more efficient computation. This paper explores leveraging an efficient self-attention structure to detect skin cancer in skin lesion images and introduces a deep neural network design with DC-AC customized for skin cancer detection from skin lesion images. We demonstrate that our approach with only 1.6 million parameters and 0.32 GFLOPs achieves better performance compared to traditional architecture designs as it obtains an area under the ROC curve of 0.90 on the public ISIC 2020 test set and 0.89 on the private ISIC test set, over 0.13 above the best Cancer-Net SCa network architecture design. The final model is publicly available as a part of a global open-source initiative dedicated to accelerating advancement in machine learning to aid clinicians in the fight against cancer. Future work of this research includes iterating on the design of the selected network architecture and refining the approach to generalize to other forms of cancer.

Creating an Environment that Influences Children's Learning and Character Qualities

This study aimed to describe the environment created by parents for their children and its effects on academic performance and character qualities. Utilizing a survey methodology, data were collected through direct and indirect observations and analyzed qualitatively. The research subjects comprised two children from the same family. The findings revealed that the parents created an environment to engage the children in arts and physical exercise. They provided various tools such as musical instruments, laptops, smartphones, bikes, paper and coloring pencils, building blocks, toys, puzzles, and books to facilitate activities like singing, playing, reading, typing, writing, and creating. Although the language setting of these tools was in English, parents communicated with the children in Indonesian. The effects of this environment were evident in the children’s development of characteristics such as resilience, creativity, responsibility, and self-regulated learning. These traits, fostered by the environment, subsequently contributed to the children’s enjoyment and success in academic, social, language, and artistic performances. Keywords: creating environment, children learning, character qualities

Asymmetric Large Kernel Distillation Network for efficient single image super-resolution.

Recently, significant advancements have been made in the field of efficient single-image super-resolution, primarily driven by the innovative concept of information distillation. This method adeptly leverages multi-level features to facilitate high-resolution image reconstruction, allowing for enhanced detail and clarity. However, many existing approaches predominantly emphasize the enhancement of distilled features, often overlooking the critical aspect of improving the feature extraction capabilities of the distillation module itself. In this paper, we address this limitation by introducing an asymmetric large-kernel convolution design. By increasing the size of the convolution kernel, we expand the receptive field, which enables the model to more effectively capture long-range dependencies among image pixels. This enhancement significantly improves the model's perceptual ability, leading to more accurate reconstructions. To maintain a manageable level of model complexity, we adopt a lightweight architecture that employs asymmetric convolution techniques. Building on this foundation, we propose the Lightweight Asymmetric Large Kernel Distillation Network (ALKDNet). Comprehensive experiments conducted on five widely recognized benchmark datasets-Set5, Set14, BSD100, Urban100, and Manga109-indicate that ALKDNet not only preserves efficiency but also demonstrates performance enhancements relative to existing super-resolution methods. The average PSNR and SSIM values show improvements of 0.10 dB and 0.0013, respectively, thereby achieving state-of-the art performance.

Barongan and Jaranan Art Performance As A Form of Cultural Heritage Preservation In Kebumen Village

As the times develop, local culture experiences contact with foreign cultures. Young people are more interested in following foreign cultures that are considered to keep up with the times and forget about local culture. This is a challenge for every culture because of the lack of the next generation to learn and practice its culture. The role of students in service is also to preserve the existing culture, so this paper aims to explain the performance of barongan and jaranan arts in Kebumen Village as a form of cultural preservation. The methods used are field and observation. The result of this study is that in order to preserve the culture owned, the Kebumen Village cultural association held a barongan and jaranan art performance in collaboration with other village cultural associations, where children in the village were included in displaying the art of barongan and jaranan.

A Wushu Leg Gesture Recognition Algorithm Based on Random Forest and Bone Feature Extraction (RF-SFE)

Addressing the challenges of complex movement trajectories and rapid action changes in martial arts performances, this study introduces a novel posture recognition algorithm based on Random Forest and Skeletal Feature Extraction (RF-SFE) for martial arts leg movements. Unlike traditional posture recognition methods that struggle with accuracy, RF-SFE aims to provide intelligent analysis of training postures to assist practitioners in efficient training. The algorithm initially employs advanced skeletal feature extraction techniques to identify and articulate the relative positions and movements specific to martial arts. These extracted spatial features enhance the flexibility in modeling the unique dynamics of martial arts. Subsequently, Random Forest classification is utilized to categorize different leg movements, leveraging its strength in handling high-dimensional data and providing robust classification. Comparative experiments on diverse martial arts posture datasets demonstrate a significant improvement in recognition rates over baseline methods. This validates the effectiveness of the RF-SFE method in recognizing martial arts postures, offering scientific guidance for practitioners’ training regimens.

The Effects of Perceived Coaching Ability and Coach-athlete Interaction on Sport Performance in Adolescent Martial Arts Sparring Athletes

To explore the effects of coaching ability and coach-athlete interaction on the athletic performance of youth Wushu sparring athletes, this paper selected 200 youth kickboxing players from Tianjin, China as the research subjects and randomly divided them into the experimental group and the control group. The experimental group adopted the integrated training method of coaching ability improvement and interactive communication, while the control group adopted the traditional training method. The research methods included a questionnaire survey, experimental observation, and data analysis, and the training effects were compared by evaluating the athletic performance and perceived coaching ability of the athletes in the two groups before and after training. The results showed that the athletic performance of the athletes in the experimental group was significantly improved, while that of the control group was only slightly improved. In addition, the perceived coaching ability of the athletes in the experimental group was significantly improved, and the quality of coach-athlete interaction was significantly enhanced (P &lt; 0.05). The conclusion shows that the improvement of coaching ability and good coach-athlete interaction can significantly improve athletes’ sports performance, which has a wide application prospect.

Peran Pemerintah dalam Pelestarian Kesenian Ludruk di Surabaya

Ludruk is a native East Javanese folk art originating from Jombang, but is also a typical Surabaya cultural mascot. Ludruk is a traditional drama performed by an arts group on a stage based on stories about people's daily lives. Ludruk art is part of East Java's rich and unique cultural heritage. Its preservation is important to maintain local cultural identity which can be a valuable asset for the community, due to the threat of loss and extinction. Ludruk is not only an artistic performance, but is also part of social life and preserving the community's identity can help strengthen a sense of solidarity and pride in local culture. . By choosing this topic, researchers can make a meaningful contribution to efforts to preserve and promote the desirability of ludruk art for the future. This research method is descriptive qualitative by collecting primary data through in-depth interviews and observations from related informants. Based on the research results that: 1. The role of the Surabaya City Culture, Youth and Sports and Tourism Department (Disbudporapar) as a regulator, plays a significant role in supporting arts and cultural activities in the preservation of ludruk art, ensuring that this traditional art remains alive and growing among young generation in ASPK policy.2. The role of the Department of Culture, Youth and Sports and Tourism of the City of Surabaya (Disbudporapar) as a facilitator, currently there is still a lack of support and facilities, allowing regeneration, regeneration of ludruk artists to be slow, competition with modern media, limited training: training programs are often undirected and inconsistent. 3. The role of the Department of Culture, Youth and Sports and Tourism of the City of Surabaya (Disbudporapar) as a dynamist, has been running well, but the current condition is that many ludruk groups in Surabaya have arts registration marks (TDK) and are registered at Disbudporapar. However, many of them have already died and Ludruk performances currently only rely on invitations from the Surabaya City Youth and Sports Culture Service (Disbudporapar).