This book confronts and criticises the way in which the dominating concept of performance has been used in Art Theory, Performance- and Dance Studies. Practices of Relations in Event-Score and Task-Dance Practices will be of great interest to scholars, students and practitioner across dance, performance art, aesthetics and art theory.
This book confronts and criticises the way in which the dominating concept of performance has been used in Art Theory, Performance- and Dance Studies. Practices of Relations in Event-Score and Task-Dance Practices will be of great interest to scholars, students and practitioner across dance, performance art, aesthetics and art theory.
Josefine Wikström is Associate Professor of Dance Theory at Stockholm University of the Arts.
Inhaltsangabe
Content Acknowledgements Introduction: From a cultural to a critical concept of performance * Performance, performativity and its disciples * Marx's epistemology: A critical methodology * Post-mediality and a generic concept of performance * Task-Dance and the Event-Score: Epistemological Problems Chapter 1. Practice: Performance a practice of relations 1. Practice and a metaphysics of practice in Aristotle 2. From action painting to performance art 3. From musical modernism to performance in general 4. Marx's relational practice: Smith, Hegel and Feuerbach 5. Performance, a practice of relations Chapter 2. Experience: Art as experience or an art to experience? 2.1. Dewey's concept of experience: Unmediated interaction 2.2. Art as experience: Ono and Forti 2.3. Critical limits of Dewey's experience: Kant versus Dewey Chapter 3. Object: Acts of negations of the medium-specific art object 3.1. The minimalist and the de-materialised object 3.2. From independent things to acts of the subject 3.2. Dance and event as object: Kant 3.3. Phenomenal objectivities in task-dance and event-score practices: Husserl Chapter 4. Abstraction: Task-dance's abstract ontology 4.1. Rainer's No-Manifesto and other negations 4.2. The social form of abstract labour: Marx 4.3. The autonomous artwork in Adorno 4.4. Division of labour, abstract time and the disciplined body. Chapter 5. Structure: The performative structure-object 5.1. Structural objects in task-dance and in structuralism: Trisha Brown' Accumulation 5.2. The Performativity of the Cartesian I 5.3. Labour in general, art in general, performance in general Notes Bibliography Index of names Subject index Index of works
Content
Acknowledgements
Introduction: From a cultural to a critical concept of performance
Performance, performativity and its disciples
Marx's epistemology: A critical methodology
Post-mediality and a generic concept of performance
Task-Dance and the Event-Score: Epistemological Problems
Chapter 1. Practice: Performance a practice of relations
Practice and a metaphysics of practice in Aristotle
From action painting to performance art
From musical modernism to performance in general
Marx's relational practice: Smith, Hegel and Feuerbach
Performance, a practice of relations
Chapter 2. Experience: Art as experience or an art to experience?
2.1. Dewey's concept of experience: Unmediated interaction 2.2. Art as experience: Ono and Forti 2.3. Critical limits of Dewey's experience: Kant versus Dewey
Chapter 3. Object: Acts of negations of the medium-specific art object
3.1. The minimalist and the de-materialised object
3.2. From independent things to acts of the subject
3.2. Dance and event as object: Kant
3.3. Phenomenal objectivities in task-dance and event-score practices: Husserl
Content Acknowledgements Introduction: From a cultural to a critical concept of performance * Performance, performativity and its disciples * Marx's epistemology: A critical methodology * Post-mediality and a generic concept of performance * Task-Dance and the Event-Score: Epistemological Problems Chapter 1. Practice: Performance a practice of relations 1. Practice and a metaphysics of practice in Aristotle 2. From action painting to performance art 3. From musical modernism to performance in general 4. Marx's relational practice: Smith, Hegel and Feuerbach 5. Performance, a practice of relations Chapter 2. Experience: Art as experience or an art to experience? 2.1. Dewey's concept of experience: Unmediated interaction 2.2. Art as experience: Ono and Forti 2.3. Critical limits of Dewey's experience: Kant versus Dewey Chapter 3. Object: Acts of negations of the medium-specific art object 3.1. The minimalist and the de-materialised object 3.2. From independent things to acts of the subject 3.2. Dance and event as object: Kant 3.3. Phenomenal objectivities in task-dance and event-score practices: Husserl Chapter 4. Abstraction: Task-dance's abstract ontology 4.1. Rainer's No-Manifesto and other negations 4.2. The social form of abstract labour: Marx 4.3. The autonomous artwork in Adorno 4.4. Division of labour, abstract time and the disciplined body. Chapter 5. Structure: The performative structure-object 5.1. Structural objects in task-dance and in structuralism: Trisha Brown' Accumulation 5.2. The Performativity of the Cartesian I 5.3. Labour in general, art in general, performance in general Notes Bibliography Index of names Subject index Index of works
Content
Acknowledgements
Introduction: From a cultural to a critical concept of performance
Performance, performativity and its disciples
Marx's epistemology: A critical methodology
Post-mediality and a generic concept of performance
Task-Dance and the Event-Score: Epistemological Problems
Chapter 1. Practice: Performance a practice of relations
Practice and a metaphysics of practice in Aristotle
From action painting to performance art
From musical modernism to performance in general
Marx's relational practice: Smith, Hegel and Feuerbach
Performance, a practice of relations
Chapter 2. Experience: Art as experience or an art to experience?
2.1. Dewey's concept of experience: Unmediated interaction 2.2. Art as experience: Ono and Forti 2.3. Critical limits of Dewey's experience: Kant versus Dewey
Chapter 3. Object: Acts of negations of the medium-specific art object
3.1. The minimalist and the de-materialised object
3.2. From independent things to acts of the subject
3.2. Dance and event as object: Kant
3.3. Phenomenal objectivities in task-dance and event-score practices: Husserl
