Del fotoconceptualismo al fototableau
Autor: Juan ALBARRÁN DIEGO
Número de Páginas: 364Interactions between photography and performance during a chronological period ranging from the so-called “nuevos comportamientos artísticos” (Spanish conceptual art) at the beginnings of 70s, to the definitive institutionalization of the “tableau form” in the 80s, are analyzed in this research. This is a complex and not lineal trip, with particular interest in the Spanish context, since some important changes affecting political and cultural life took place during this period, conditioning the process object of the present work. The work tries to discuss those performance theories that emphasize the “liveness”, and doing so, pushed the photography into the background. By putting those controversies in the scope of “nuevos comporamientos”, we have created a frame of reference to explain those activities near conceptual art, and then, we have looked for their continuity in certain works carried out during the 80s with neither media visibility, nor critical mediators. With the enthusiastic attitudes of the “movida” as a background, photography becomes institutionalized whereas performance gets outside of the “official aesthetics”. The origin of a cultural...