Practices of Relations in Task-Dance and the Event-Score: A Critique of Performance

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