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A link to her "Personal Chronology": http://www.adrianpiper.com/personal_chrono.shtml "... it doesn't relly matter what term we use to designate those who have inferior and disadvantaged status, because whatever term is used will eventually turn into a term of derision and disparagement in virtue of its reference to those who are derided and disparaged, and so will… Continue reading Adrian Piper

Some parts: Cvejić, Bojana (2018) ‘Towards a poetics of Imagination’, in e-tcetera p. 1-2 Αrtists have little time left over to engage in thinking about their art. All time is invested in practice, on the activities that administrate or reproduce a work, present or circulate or maintain it, but not on those that produce it. Poetics… Continue reading Imagination: to leave the audience and the artists alone

Some parts: Allsopp R. (2005) On Form/Yet to Come. Performance Research 10(2), pp.1-4. The question of form - of how, where, with and for whom performance takes place, becomes visible or manifests itself as a point of resistance or a moment of slippage or connectivity. Form and its relation to time, politics, space, cultural context… Continue reading Formless form

Mythical time is restful, like a picture. Historical time, by contrast, has the form of a line which runs or rushes towards a goal. If this line loses its narrative or teleological tension, it disintegrates into points which whizz around without any sense of direction. The end of history atomizes time into point-time.Historical time knows no lasting present […] Time is change,… Continue reading Point-time and thoughts

If we agree that the real is a structural gap (it needs to be there in order for the triad to exist and it is still a gap), and if we agree that it is ineffable, how could we approach it? Could we approximate it through another gap such as silence? Eckhart Tolle asks his… Continue reading ‘silent spaces’

In “The explicit body in performance” Rebecca Schneider separates between a ‘Real’ that is cultured by Western societies (which we can also call symbolic order) and a real as recognition of the symbolic order. She argues that "Western civilization is in thrall to a 'Real' we are acculturated to accept as forever beyond our grasp"3.… Continue reading the real

During the course of the module Body in Performance I have struggled with representation and especially with representation of the real in connection to theatre. In the online Merriam-Webster lexicon I found several definitions of the verb ‘represent’1: 1: to bring clearly before the mind: present 2: to serve as a sign or symbol of 3: to portray… Continue reading representation

Performance art as desublimation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqUj5hTWxuI 1. Even when you where jeans beccause you supposedly don't care, you signalise in the symbolic order that you don't care. 2. Capitalism nowadays is focusing on selling experiences; the product is the means to a promised experience. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qypBFozF24g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIq5zN7rNlI