Practices of Relations in Task-Dance and the Event-Score: A Critique of Performance
- Author: Wikstroem, Josefine
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Contents
- 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
- 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