Performativity in the Gallery: Staging Interactive Encounters (Cultural Interactions: Studies in the Relationship between the Arts)

✍ Scribed by Outi Remes (editor), Laura MacCulloch (editor), Marika Leino (editor)

Publisher: Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Year: 2014
Tongue: English
Leaves: 267
Edition: New
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

This book coincides with an increase in the programming of live art elements in many galleries and museums. Traditional art history has, however, been wary of live art’s interdisciplinarity and its tendency to encourage increased formal and conceptual risk taking. Time-based performances have challenged the conventions of documentation and the viewer’s access to the art experience. This book questions the canon of art history by exploring participation, liveness, interactivity, digital and process-based performative practices and performance for the camera, as presented in gallery spaces.
The essays present both academic research as well as case studies of curatorial projects that have pushed the boundaries of the art historical practice. The authors come from a wide range of backgrounds, ranging from curators and art producers to academics and practising artists. They ask what it means to present, curate and create interdisciplinary performative work for gallery spaces and offer cutting-edge research that explores the intricate relationship between art history, live and performing arts, and museum and gallery space.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Contents
Illustrations
Outi Remes Introduction
Part I Art History and its Challenged Position to Performative Encounters
Mary Oliver 1 Lies, Lies, It’s All Lies I Tell You!
Pip Laurenson and Vivian van Saaze 2 Collecting Performance-Based Art: New Challenges and Shifting
Maria Chatzichristodoulou [aka Maria X] 3 Exhibiting Performance, Staging Experience
Beryl Graham 4 Histories of Interaction and Participation: Critical Systems from New Media Art
Eva Fotiadi 5 From Event to Archive and to Event Again
Part II From Curator to Viewer
Kaija Kaitavuori 6 Participation in the Gallery: (Re)negotiating Contracts
Amy Mechowski 7 Playing Ball: Friday Late, Performativity and the Victoria and Albert Museum
Lee Campbell 8 Heckler, Performance, Participation and Politeness: Using Performance Art as a Tool
Leah Lovett 9 Crowd Control: Encountering Art’s Audiences
Part III Curating Participation in the Gallery: Case Studies
Outi Remes and Cally Trench 10 At Play: Curatorial Notes about Playfulness
Sophia Yadong Hao 11 Attending the Gallery
Helen Sloan 12 Like Shadows: A Celebration of Shyness
Claudia Marion Stemberger 13 South African Live Art and the Representation of its Residue: On Gabri
Notes on Contributors
Index

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