The Ecology of the Performance Art Process

This book offers a new, dynamic and ecological perspective to analyse the process of performance art, namely, what occurs during the unfolding of a piece, exploring the essence of its happening through the forces at play.

Autorentext

Angela Viora is an Italian artist, educator and scholar living in Naarm, on the unceded land of the Kulin Nations (Melbourne, AUS), where she lectures in European Languages Italian Studies at Monash University. Through a practice as research approach, Angela works at the nexus between performance studies and Italian and migration studies focusing on socially engaged art and education innovation. Angela has presented her work internationally, including at CO.AS.IT Museo Italiano (AUS), Daegu Art Factory (SK), Performance Studies International Conference, the 12th Istanbul Biennial (TK) and the MAXXI Museum in Rome (IT). She publishes on performance art, artivism, documentation and audience reception and education.

Inhalt

Introduction. 1. Performance art 2. Space 3. Time and duration 4. Body 5. The performer-audience relationship 6. Documentation, mediation and re-performance. Performance art: an offer