Lepecki Singularities: Dance and Visual Arts in the Age of Performance

Dance in the Age of Performance
Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-1-317-44109-0
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 204 Seiten

How does the production of performance engage with the fundamental issues of our advanced neo-capitalist age? Andre Lepecki surveys a decade of visual art and experimental choreography to uncover the dual meaning of ‘performance’ in the twenty first century – not just as an aesthetic category but also as a mode of political power. He argues that this power is not only autonomous from the artistic practices that we now associate with the term performance, but also runs entirely contrary to them. Through the works of Ron Athey, Yvonne Rainer, Ralph Lemon, Jerome Bel and others, Lepecki uses the concept of ‘singularity’ – the resistance of categorisation and aesthetic identification to examine the function of performance in political and artistic debate.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lepecki, Andre

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Geschichte der Kunstwissenschaft und Kunstkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunsttheorie, Kunstphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstformen, Kunsthandwerk Installations-, Aktions-, Computer- und Videokunst

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Dance and the age of neoliberal performance

Chapter 1: Moving as Some Thing (or, Some things want to run)

Chapter 2: In the Dark

Chapter 3: Limitrophies of the Human: monstrous nature, thingly life, and the wild animal

Chapter 4: The Body as Archive: will to reenact and the afterlives of dances

Chapter 5: Choreographic Angelology: the dancer as worker of history (or, Remembering is a hard thing)

Chapter 6: Afterthought: Four notes on witnessing performance in the age of neoliberal dis-experience

Über Autor(innen)

Andre Lepecki is Associate Professor of Performance Studies at Tisch School of the Arts, NYU, and Artistic Professor for Concept and Composition at Stockholm University of the Arts.