I like your dichotomy between Subverting performance space and Performance subverting space. In my opnion it fits with Schechner's distinction between AS performance and IS performance.
Richard Schecher, in "What is Performance?" (2006)distinguishes between IS performance and AS performance. "Certain events are performances and other events less so. There are limits to what "is" performance. But just about anything can be studied "as" performance. Something "is" a performance when historical and social context, convention, usage, and tradition say it is. (...) One cannot determine what "is" a performance without referring to specific cultural circumstances." (30) "Any behavior, event action, or thing can be studied "as" performance, can be analyzed in terms of doing, behaving and showing." (32)
From the vantage of the kind of performance theory Schechner is propounding, every action is a performance (cf. 30). I wondered if the dichtonomy between Subverting performance space and Performing subverting space can only be discerned forasmusch as how the event is received and placed. When one is subverting performance space, the space itself is clearly conventionally defined; it is within this space that the subverting takes place. But the subverting itself is also a "performance".
I like the examples you included, such as kissing policemen and world naked bike ride. they are very relatable to city of amsterdam!!
ReplyDeleteI like your dichotomy between Subverting performance space and Performance subverting space. In my opnion it fits with Schechner's distinction between AS performance and IS performance.
ReplyDeleteDear aplvandera, thank you for your comments, could you please elaborate on your idea regarding AS performance and IS performance?
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Richard Schecher, in "What is Performance?" (2006)distinguishes between IS performance and AS performance.
ReplyDelete"Certain events are performances and other events less so. There are limits to what "is" performance. But just about anything can be studied "as" performance. Something "is" a performance when historical and social context, convention, usage, and tradition say it is. (...) One cannot determine what "is" a performance without referring to specific cultural circumstances." (30)
"Any behavior, event action, or thing can be studied "as" performance, can be analyzed in terms of doing, behaving and showing." (32)
From the vantage of the kind of performance theory Schechner is propounding, every action is a performance (cf. 30). I wondered if the dichtonomy between Subverting performance space and Performing subverting space can only be discerned forasmusch as how the event is received and placed. When one is subverting performance space, the space itself is clearly conventionally defined; it is within this space that the subverting takes place. But the subverting itself is also a "performance".
Anne-Pauline