Visceral Fermentations: Duration, Intimacy and Collaboration (original) (raw)

Poetic encounter : a hermeneutic journey into the microprocesses of performance art

2015

Date: 11.05.2015 AUTHOR MASTER’S OR OTHER DEGREE PROGRAMME Ilka Theurich Live Art and Performance Studies TITLE OF THE WRITTEN SECTION/THESIS NUMBER OF PAGES + APPENDICES IN THE WRITTEN SECTION Poetic Encounter -A Hermeneutic Journey into the Microprocesses of Performance Art 84 incl. 2 Pages with Links to Project Blogs & Videos TITLE OF THE ARTISTIC/ARTISTIC AND PEDAGOGICAL SECTION Kallio my Kallio & The City of Dream and Future The artistic section was completed at the Theatre Academy. x The artistic section was not completed at the Theatre Academy (copyright issues have been resolved). Supervisor/s: Annette Arlander, Taina Rajanti (just in the beginning) & Ray Langenbach (at the end) The final project can be published online. This permission is granted for an unlimited duration. Yes X No The abstract of the final project can be published online. This permission is granted for an unlimited duration. Yes X No This scientific work concentrates on the question: How do relations betwe...

Converging perspectives : writings on performance art

2011

Helsinki. This third episode Converging Perspectives – Writings on Performance Art consists of essays, writings and reviews by MA students of Live Art and performance studies (2009-2011): Suvadeep Das, Christina Georgiou, Sari Kivinen, Katariina Mylläri, Ilka Theurich and Tuuli Tubin. The book includes texts on artistic research by doctoral students of performance art and theory Pilvi Porkola and Tero Nauha and an essay by a guest, Lisa Erdman. The anthology is compiled with an introduction by Professor Annette Arlander. Converging Perspectives

Moving Bodies: An Anthropological Approach to Performance Art (Contents and Introduction)

Constantly resisting time and space, performance is an art that historically spotlights the artist within a certain spatial and temporal frame (the here-and-now), in relation to an audience and a specific political, social and cultural context. By allowing the artist to be its first spectator and searching for a simultaneous exchange between performer and spectator, performance art proposes conditions of socialisation that challenge normative structures of power and spectatorship. Starting from an understanding of the artists as researchers working perceptually, reflexively and also qualitatively, this thesis explores the field of performance art and focuses on their relation to the artwork as intimate, subjective, and transformative. The core of my ethnographic fieldwork was developed between October and December 2014 within the frame of two international festivals based in Northern Italy (Turin and Venice) dedicated to the practice of performance art — torinoPERFORMANCEART and the Venice International Performance Art Week. A highly ethnographic, reflexive and subjective approach is combined with a diversified theoretical frame of reference. Phenomenology and embodiment as points of philosophical departure provide the necessary threshold to overcome the dualistic Cartesian subject widely questioned in performance art: a holistic approach to performance as a series of dialogical, relational, and transformative processes thus allows for deeper investigation on its practice and alternative understandings of its documentation. Contemporary art theories further expand the discussion of performance and tackle some of its critical points and enduring ambivalences. Intending to make a contribution to the already existing efforts of those anthropologists working at the crossroads between art and anthropology, as well as to welcome fruitful dialogues with the artists it engages, the attempt is to trespass fixed positions and binary pathways of thought by exploring the potentials of experience, its continuities and transformations that creatively involve and intersect ethnographies and artistic researches.

'Performance, Choreography, and the Gallery: Materiality, Attention, Agency, Sensation, and Instability' PERFORMANCE PARADIGM 13 (2017), 1-6.

Performance Paradigm, 2017

This issue of Performance Paradigm, focusing on “Performance, Choreography and the Gallery,” takes the 2016 Biennale of Sydney (BoS20) as a starting point. The Biennale featured scores of performances that ranged across of a variety of genres (one-to-one, live art, theatre, dance, opera, installations, walks, talks, and tours) and a variety of sites (libraries, galleries, post-industrial halls, inner city streets, and harbour islands). The Biennale’s artistic director Stephanie Rosenthal and two of her ‘curatorial attachés’, Adrian Heathfield and André Lepecki, have been working at this intersection for years, along with curators such as Pierre Bal Blanc, Catherine Wood and Mathieu Copeland. So too have scholars such as Claire Bishop (2012; 2014), Shannon Jackson (2011), Amelia Jones (1998; 2012) and Susan Bennett (2009). We will not attempt a survey of that field here, suffice to say that the research presented in what follows refers to much of this seminal work. This collection of articles and artist pages seeks to engage with the performance dimension of a sprawling, international art event and related work outside the Biennale, along with the associated field of literature. The articles proceed primarily through female case studies such as Alex Martinis Roe, Shelley Lasica, Noa Eshkol, The Brown Council, Mette Edvardsen and Julie-Anne Long, and link the work of such artists to major themes circulating in this field. Of the many themes covered in this writing—including practice, choreography, labour, ethics, discipline, collaboration, visuality, power, spectatorship—we choose materiality, attention, agency, sensation and instability to frame this introduction.