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The Performativity of Banksy’s Art

  • The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art
  • Abbr : JASA
  • 2023, 68(), pp.226-244
  • DOI : 10.17527/JASA.68.0.09
  • Publisher : 한국미학예술학회
  • Research Area : Arts and Kinesiology > Other Arts and Kinesiology
  • Received : December 24, 2022
  • Accepted : January 12, 2023
  • Published : February 28, 2023

IM, HYOUNGJIN 1

1상명대학교

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ABSTRACT

The graffiti artist Banksy’s artwork and its process are markedly different from traditional artistic postures and grammar. This sense of distance not only rejects the representation of art and its stylistic framework, but also generates a sentiment of social action that seeks to dismantle the capitalist authority produced from it. In Banksy’s works, the theatrical characteristics of the historical avant-garde and Happening art, which have been confirmed in terms of theatre history, appear in common. This is because he is rational and conceptual, and emphasizes the practical characteristics that strongly operate performativity. The performative characteristics of Banksy’s art are closely related to emergence and event. His work is exactly in line with the performative tendency of contemporary applied theater, which wants the theater to come out and contemplate the actual change of the audience and share its possibilities. Thus, Banksy’s art reflects the aesthetic principle from performativity that operates the event character rather than the logos system, and has the characteristic of directing social action oriented toward a practical attitude.

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