"perform or else" is one of the many books on my endless list of books i
must read, when i can just get finished this or that, or work out how to
function on 4 hours sleep ...
is there a perceived digital divide in the worlds of performance art? i
guess that depends on which worlds you are talking about & how
"performance art" is defined, because there is such a lot of diversity
within the many worlds of performance art. coming from a theatre
background, i definitely perceive a digital divide in some areas. there
are performance artists who work purely with the body & with no
technology at all not even a lightbulb, there are those who embrace it
fully, & there are others all the way along the spectrum. i know that
many of my theatre colleagues think that what i do is pretty wierd; they
are curious about it & understand its experimental nature but they don't
all agree that it is "theatre".
this ties into the "liveness" debate which is perhaps a bit outdated now
but for a time there was a strong debate about whether something could
be both live and mediatised (of course it can).
what is interesting to me is how the internet is increasingly a stage on
which people perform - it has shifted from being primarily a resource,
repository, source of information, to a much more immediate place of
happenings, events, performance as things like skype have given people a
familiarity with liveness via the internet. which is what cyberformance
is all about.
i guess i really should try & read the book before the cyposium ... ;)
h : )
On 9/09/12 6:36 PM, Annie Abrahams wrote:
not as much as far as I am concerned Ruth
but my answer might be a bit hasty
a dancer working with youtube :
Mette Ingvartsen’s "Where is my privacy" a collaboration with Sira
Foighel Brutmann and Manon Santkin
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=576FC16B78A5B702
contemporary art with youtube Martin Kohout
http://www.youtube.com/user/martin0kohout/videos
http://122909a.com/?p=2309
Not sure ... you make me think ... also not sure I find it interesting
to think a lot about ...
Annie
On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 3:49 PM, ruth catlow
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
wrote:
Hi Folks,
I just found this from Rod Dickinson in my inbox.
I am not familiar with the McKenzie text but it made me reflect on the
recent frustrated flurry surrounding Claire Bishop's Art Forum article
about what she describes as the Digital Divide in the art world.
Her article is here http://artforum.com/inprint/id=31944
And responses here http://artforum.com/talkback/id=70724
It made me wonder about the upcoming cyberformance conference about
whether there is also a perceived digital divide in the worlds of
performance art.
Thoughts?
: )
Ruth
> Dear Bristol Friends (and a few further afield)
>
> I'm leading a discussion on Jon McKenzie's brilliant text
'Perform or
> Else: From Discipline to Performance' at Spike Island next
Tuesday (11
> September, 6–8pm).
>
> Perform or Else is a text for our times; McKenzie constructs a
general
> theory of performance, linking together cultural performance,
> organisational performance and technological performance drawing on
> thinkers as diverse as Goffman and Marcuse and arguing that
> performance is one of our primary contemporary ontological
conditions.
> He maps the way that performance has also become a tool for
measuring
> and assessing our behaviour in all aspects of life and as direct
> consequence of the formation of our information societies. It's
> compelling argument and I hope you'll come and join me to
discuss it.
>
> Full info here
>
http://www.spikeisland.org.uk/events/activities/extra-curricular-september-2012/
>
>
> email [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
if you'd like to come.
>
>
>
>
>
> Rod Dickinson
>
>
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