TIBA is a new form of Art that embodies a new type of Art Medium. Since it is new it has no current classification in today's Art World. My choice is to place TIB-Art under the classification heading of DADA art.

DADA art came into the Art World vision as an anti-establishment art movement. It began in Zurich and Berlin in 1915 and rapidly gained momentum. It quickly spread through the major art centers of Europe, the United States, and Asia. The primary mission of the DADA artists was to express their discontent with violence, war, and Nationalism. The DADA movement was born out of the horrors of WWI, which these artist and their followers felt was a direct result of the chaotic "logic" and "reason" of the European capitalistic bourgeois. The art produced by this group was meant to reflect this chaos by prizing nonsense and irrationality.

The impact of DADA art was enormous, enveloping the visual arts, literature, poetry, art manifestos, art theory, theater, and graphic design. Where ever it presented itself overall reactions disbelief, bewilderment, and confusion persisted. It was meant to shake up normal thought and cause viewers to reassess everything they felt they understood. Hitler actively persecuted DADA art as "degenerative art" with several of the artist dying in the death camps preceding and during WWII.

This controversial art movement succeeded in the footsteps of "futurism", "cubism", "Constructionism", and "expressionism". By the mid 1920s it was melding into "surrealism", "social realism", and "modernism".

During its short but influential span it was responsible for the creation of five new artistic techniques; collage, cut-up technique, photomontage, assemblage, and ready mades. "Ready mades" were thought of as taking something that was manufactured for one specific purpose and then reassigned to create an art piece having an entirely different meaning and purpose. Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968) made his mark with "ready mades" by taking a urinal, laying it on its back, and labeling it as "Fountain". Andy Warhol, known as a "neo-dadist" would follow in Marcel's duchampian footsteps by taking "ready mades" and putting them to paint in his "Soup Cans" and "Brillo Boxes". These in turn caused viewers to examine their learned reality on multiple levels.

The task of classifying this new TIB Art within the world of art as it exist today is one I am taking very seriously. At first glance, as I am purposing it, they are photographs. These photographs are of metal pieces placed in ways to form images. The individual metal pieces at the time of their creation were both extremely expensive and literally works of art in and of themselves. Each piece spent months to decades residing in a human body for a specific purpose. Once removed they were repurposed to create images of art. These created images are representations of real or imaginary illusions from the mind of the artists. Some of the created images represent some of the earliest paintings by homo-sapiens and possibly neanderthals. So, is this a totally new art form in an already over crowded art world, or is it a variation of existing art that should simply be added on to as a new variation?

My argument for adding it to the DADA art movement is as follows. The items used in this art were originally manufactured for a specific purpose. Each was then reused to create images of art giving them an entirely different purpose. Reactions of disgust and repulsiveness might occur regarding these implants having spent time in human bodies. Absurdity might be elicited when considering that each implant, originally costing hundreds to thousands of dollars could now be used as a piece of metal glued to aluminum to create an simple illusory image. Anyone viewing TIB Art will be forced to rethink their realities concerning surgical patients (maybe themselves included), surgical device manufacturing, what art really is and what it means to them, and the confusion resulting from how humans created and currently view art.

I would classify TempInBody Art (TIBA) as an extension of the DADA art form using the "ready made" technique, and being listed under that heading as "TIBA".

For my more curious and esoteric readers I will add that a fellow art enthusiast suggested it should fall under the "collage" technique instead. Thoughts?

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Wikipedia

Blake Gopnik June 23, 2017