Performance art is art in which the actions of an individual or a group at a particular place and in a particular time constitute the work. It can happen anywhere, at any time, or for any length of time. Performance art can be any situation that involves four basic elements: time, space, the performer's body and a relationship between performer and audience. It is opposed to painting or sculpture, for example, where an object constitutes the work.

Although performance art could be said to include relatively mainstream activities such as theater, dance, music, and circus-related things like fire breathing, juggling, and gymnastics, these are normally instead known as the performing arts. Performance art is a term usually reserved to refer to a kind of usually avant-garde or conceptual art which grew out of the visual arts.

In performance art, usually one or more people perform in front of an audience. In contrast to the traditional performing arts, performance art is unconventional. Performance artists often challenge the audience to think in new and unconventional ways about theater and performing, break conventions of traditional performing arts, and break down conventional ideas about "what art is," similar to the postmodern art movement. Thus, even though in most cases the performance is in front of an audience, in some cases, the audience becomes the performers. The performance may be scripted, unscripted, or improvisational. It may incorporate music, dance, song, or complete silence. The audience may buy tickets for the performance, the performance may be free, or the performer may pay the audience to watch the performance.

The New Chapter of the Design Department fellowship by the student and lecturer.

Name of the group: (Double I. B Project ) - Integration in Between Project

From left: Khaliq( percussionist), Rahmat, Azlin, Elyas, Maizul, Cody and Foo Tong (performers), Wan (percussionist) and crews: Hadri(Stage Manager) and Puteri (photographer)-not in the picture

Artist’s Statement:

Mission was an original idea based on work Maizul Affendy. The original piece was performed during in mid 2004 in the USM Museum. The body of work had constructed many ways in terms of interpretation and judgment by the artist. Mission series had been produced by the artist in different perspectives such as comic book, short animation , short film, series of artwork and performance arts. Mission was about the life of the artist, art student, art collector, art historian, art critic and art spectator…especially art scene in Malaysia. There’s a lots of question need to be answered by them because art is subjective to everyone involved in this field. The objectives of the performance is to find the appropriate answer which is need to fit the bills such as to promote, to celebrates arts and culture, use art as entertainment for society in Malaysia. Fortunately, the group was formed by Maizul Affendy for refreshing new talent of KDU design students which are in the making to be trained as multifunctional artist and designer in the future.

They claimed to be called (Double I. B Project) stands for ‘Integration in Between Project’; are collective young souls in 3 different background in arts such as Interior, Graphic and Digital. They had brought this answer to the viewers in the previous performance on Design Day at Design Department 5 month ago. The new generation will perform The Mission incomplete series again this coming December with different perspectives of body work to give the opportunity for the viewers to make an interpretation on the matter…again.

- PERFORMANCE PROJECTS -

· The previous performance at Design Department on Design Day, July 2008, performed by Double I.B Project, Titled: Mission Incomplete Series

To check out: log in www.youtube.com; key in - KDU ART PERFORMANCE

· Latest Performance from the group was held at Penang State Art Gallery, Penang for the invitation opening seniorartist Lee Joo For Retrospectives art collections on 8 Nov 2008 , Titled: ‘A Crowd of Faces- Tribute to the John Lee’ .

Artist Statement :

Maizul Affendy (advisor and founder of the group)

Integration in Between Project (Double I.B Project) is a performance art group, which are consisted with three different diplomas such as Interior, Digital and Graphic design students. Performance art can build the character as a good product and quality. The new generation performers will be shine and productive in terms of quality, responsibility, creativity, innovative and multifunctional as designer and artist in Malaysia

A Crowd of Faces was meant to be a piece of art from John Lee Joo For. He was a Theater director, Actor, Scriptwriter, Producer and Visual Artist in his entire life. The experimental and conceptual art performance took the lead of the color Black and White as Ying and Yang influence followed with variety of movement of balance of life as an artist, art student and art academician. It is also followed by the performers and percussionist as symbolize of sounds and emotions from the heart of the artist Lee Joo For. It was a tribute to the artist from the younger generation of the art students of KDU Design Department into the next step in the future.

Instruments: Didgeridoo, Djembe and Drum stick

Duration: 5 to 8 minutes.

· Upcoming performances: Dec 5 – Opening Exhibition Lee Joo For Retrospectives 2008 at Tapak Pesta Sungai Nibong, Dec 6 -(Open Day) , KDU College & Opening for Pesta Penang Young Contemporary 2008, Penang State Art Gallery.

- SITE PROJECT –

· Graffiti Pillars Project

KDU College, Penang (Start: 22 Dec- 1 Dec 2008)

Design statement:

The purpose of this proposal is to illustrate the need for a project to address the problem of isolation among public and design school department. This project will explore:

• Attempts to promote the School of Art in visualizing the Art and Design of environmental discourse.
  
• These Six pillars will depict six different stories regarding human behavior and response to our environmental issues
  

Designed by Maizul with help from Double I.B Project