The Ecology of the Performance Art Process
eBook - ePub

The Ecology of the Performance Art Process

Fragmentation, Union, Reconfiguration

  1. 160 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

The Ecology of the Performance Art Process

Fragmentation, Union, Reconfiguration

About this book

This book offers a new, dynamic and ecological perspective to analyse the process of performance art, namely, what occurs during the unfolding of a piece, exploring the essence of its happening through the forces at play. The author's aim is to provide a deeper understanding of performance art, which the existing scholarship acknowledges as an art form that actively engages with the world.

Much work has been done on the transformative effects of performance art on the artists and the audiences, and its impact on society over time. The author takes this perspective further by asking, how does this transformation happen? Little work exists on exploring the forces and dynamics occurring while a performance is developing: neither before nor after, but during it. This is the first and main gap that this book fills, given the importance of process and processuality as the characterising features of this art form. By filling this gap, this book offers a new way to understand performances and their impact in the world and over time, as well as providing practitioners with tools for performing and designing their works starting from the process rather than focusing on the outcomes. This book studies the matrix of the performance art process by conceiving it as an ecosystem, in which all the elements at play, animate and inanimate, are agentic and intertwine in relationships of mutual influence and exchange.

This book will be useful for scholars and practitioners of performance art and performance studies, practice?as?research (PaR), visual culture, art history and philosophy, especially phenomenology.

The author thanks Monash University (Arts) and the Australasian Centre for Italian Studies (ACIS) for the financial support in making this publication possible.

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Information

Year
2025
eBook ISBN
9781040319888
Edition
0
Topic
Art

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Disclaimer
  6. Dedication
  7. Table of Contents
  8. List of figures
  9. Preface
  10. Acknowledgements
  11. Introduction
  12. 1 Performance art
  13. 2 Space
  14. 3 Time and duration
  15. 4 Body
  16. 5 The performer-audience relationship
  17. 6 Documentation, mediation and re-performance
  18. Performance art: An offer
  19. Index