How can power structures be subverted with the help of performative acts?
How can the artist invade the space of legal institutions and possibly hack their discourses?
Examples from contemporary art demonstrate how the limits of performance space can be tested in a subversive way:
Tanja Ostojic and The Yes Men
Tanja Ostojic – Serbia
She subverts the performance space of the EU as an entity by becoming the legal (!) wife of a random partner and by presenting this as a piece of art.
The Yes Men – USA
In their innovative strategy called “identity correction”, The Yes Men offer examples of virtual realities that are “too good to be true, but not impossible” thus enhancing one's political awareness.
Glauber Rocha – Brazil
He approaches Brazilian cultural rituals in a creative form of subversion in his last picture, The Age of the Earth (A Idade da Terra, 1979)
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