Tracey Emin’s sculptural piece named “My Bed” was an incredibly controversial outcome nominated for the turner prize in 1999; Emin herself describes the work as a self portrait of a low point in her life so she is developing and changing the idea of what a classic portrait could become. The level of theory that I would like to look at within this piece is the idea of the artist herself being the art. She is producing an outcome that could work towards the feminist movement; this artwork battles the societal norms of how a woman should behave in a performance art style as even when Emin is talking about her work she is still keeping up the similar standards of being a “bad girl” and someone who wouldn’t particularly want to follow the rules.
Taking this theory further, you could say that artwork is as much of a performance piece for the artist as whatever they produce will be scrutinised in a way that is effected by how they put themselves across within the art world.