“Water Abyss (the cleansing)”
performative action
archival digital print
© 2005
Water Abyss is a performance that took place over several days involving a pilgrimage to an island covered with mangroves and ongoing prayers to their spirit, previously seen as a young female African dancer.
Performance Art: Art in which the medium is the artist’s own body and the artwork takes the form of actions performed by the artist. Performance art has origins in Futurism and Dada, but became a major phenomenon in the 1960s and 1970s and can be seen as a branch of Conceptual art. Right from the start performance pieces were recorded in photography, film and video, and these eventually became the primary means by which Performance reached a wide public. <via: Tate>