Article: The ephemeral and its materialisations. Towards a redefinition of performance art
Abstract
There is a broad consensus in the art world that performance can be defined as an action that takes place within a certain time and space. There is also a theoretical debate in regard to documenting performance art. The position of the established paradigm on performance art documentation has been rebutted in practice on two fronts: that the very history of performance art is not consistent with constant disappearance; and regarding how performance art is treated in contemporary art museums. Performance art was eventually museified in the 1990s, completely adapting to the rules of the museum. The paper proposes a redefinition of performance that takes its materialization seriously: its ephemeral nature, the action and the co-presence of the public.
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Ayerbe, Nerea: The ephemeral and its materialisations. Towards a redefinition of performance art. In: MAP - Media | Archive | Performance, Jg. 9 (2018), Nr. 1, S. 1-7. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/22255.
@ARTICLE{Ayerbe2018,
author = {Ayerbe, Nerea},
title = {The ephemeral and its materialisations. Towards a redefinition of performance art},
year = 2018,
doi = "\url{http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/22255}",
volume = 9,
address = {Leipzig},
journal = {MAP - Media | Archive | Performance},
number = 1,
pages = {1--7},
}
author = {Ayerbe, Nerea},
title = {The ephemeral and its materialisations. Towards a redefinition of performance art},
year = 2018,
doi = "\url{http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/22255}",
volume = 9,
address = {Leipzig},
journal = {MAP - Media | Archive | Performance},
number = 1,
pages = {1--7},
}
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