Performance Art pages 19-37

Pages 19-37 of the Performance Art book talks about the mechanical moves, ballets, synthetic theater,  and Russian futurism. Mechanical movements are body actions based on staccato movements of machines. A famous work called "the Printing Press" released in 1914 was based off instructions in a private performance given for Diaghilev. 12 people, each part of the machine, performed in front of a backdrop and created a "machine," hence the mechanical movement. Russian futurism was marked by two factors, on the one hand the artists' reaction against the old order suspiciously foreign but more acceptable since it echoed this call to abandon old art forms. In this movement people walked the streets in crazy outfits, their faces painted, large top hats, velvet jackets, earrings, and spoons in their button holes. This "self-painting" was the first speech to have unknown truths.