...To everyone who completed the task on 'What is Performance'. There has been some very interesting and insightful responses from you. Thankyou. There is no 'right or wrong' answer to the question, which is why at times there can be such diversity and even a contradiction in responses.
For those of you who haven't... you know who you are (cue sinister music)... Feel free to add your thoughts, and dont be afraid of your own opinion.
In the new year i hope to spend some time with you all considering notions of performance, so this isn't an isolated or pointless task, but an opportunity for me to gain an insight on the various perspectives you all take when asked about performance.
It is also well worth a look at the Marina Abramovich link Vanessa posted. Some of her work will really get you thinking about what performance is, and if any of you wish to discuss her further let me know.
I would like to leave you all with a couple of quotes relating to performance for you to consider.
""Characterisation", "representation", "imitation", "transportation" and "transformation".
All of these words say that performers can't really say who they are. Unique among animals,
humans carry and express multiple and ambivalent identities simultaneously"
Richard Schechner in Between Theatre & Anthropology.
"A performance 'event' or 'action' is just a segment of a much larger 'process' not made
available to the audience, and not necessarily made explicit in the event."
Guillermo Gomez-Pena, ethno-techno; writings on performance, activism and pedagogy.
"Performance presupposes the spectator"
Yi-Fu Tuan, Space and Context, in Performance Analysis, Counsell and Wolf.
See you all tomorrow for the Disco Pigs movie.
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