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Should sports be considered a performance art?
Posted: Wed Mar 25, 2020 4:07 pm
by IvoryBlackBishop
This is what I consider them to be, but others may disagree.
Re: Should sports be considered a performance art?
Posted: Thu Mar 26, 2020 12:04 am
by Impenitent
some more than others, but all are artistic to an extent...
sports without regulations become more abstract of course...
-Imp
Re: Should sports be considered a performance art?
Posted: Sun Mar 29, 2020 12:33 pm
by Walker
A mindful life is performance art, if only for one witness.
In the artistic sense of poetry in motion athletics performed efficiently as designed displays precision, grace, power and speed. Otherwise, the essential aspects of athletics are competition and drama, which are not essential to performance art.
Athletic’s ultimate entertainment value is the uncertain outcome.
Re: Should sports be considered a performance art?
Posted: Sun Mar 29, 2020 1:41 pm
by Skepdick
Science and philosophy are performance arts, so why not sports?
Re: Should sports be considered a performance art?
Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2020 7:50 pm
by bahman
IvoryBlackBishop wrote: ↑Wed Mar 25, 2020 4:07 pm
This is what I consider them to be, but others may disagree.
There is a sense of beauty in everything we enjoy.
Re: Should sports be considered a performance art?
Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2020 8:08 pm
by Walker
Here’s one of those sports for a guy with a gut, which includes bowling, darts, pool, NFL lineman, Sumo wrestling which is kind of weird ... and of course huntin’ and fishin’.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkZ0wVul2Fc
This is art because of the physics of relaxation that allows for transference of maximum controlled power to the target only at the crucial moment, so smoothly you don’t even see it, sort of like Zen archery.
Re: Should sports be considered a performance art?
Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2020 5:37 am
by Walker
Observe the beauty of stillness and motion.
Kyudo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCKLGMK_3No
Re: Should sports be considered a performance art?
Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2020 10:19 pm
by IvoryBlackBishop
That was beautiful, thanks.
Re: Should sports be considered a performance art?
Posted: Wed Apr 01, 2020 2:14 pm
by HexHammer
Depends on the participants skill, if they have low skill it's not, if high skill it can be.
Re: Should sports be considered a performance art?
Posted: Wed Apr 01, 2020 2:55 pm
by Immanuel Can
IvoryBlackBishop wrote: ↑Wed Mar 25, 2020 4:07 pm
This is what I consider them to be, but others may disagree.
There are sports that have objective targets...like, "kick the ball in the goal," or "push the opponent onto his back," or "lift the heaviest weight," "run the mile fastest," or "get down the mountain before anyone else." There are objective measurements of achievement.
Then there are things where aesthetics are involved...like "point your toes at entry," "wave the string on the stick tantalizingly," "coordinate all your moves with your partner," "have a nice costume," or "finish your spin with your wrists extended and back arched." The emphasis is on how they look, not what they really did. And for that reason, the scoring of such events if often inaccurate and dishonest (the American judge says 6, and the Russian says 10), because there's no objective way of arbitrating success. These may be "performance art," but I they are not real sports. They're athletic fashion shows.