Open AccessDiscreet Performances, Anonymous Performances, Virtual Performances
Author(s) -
Marco Catalão
Publication year - 1969
Publication title -
partake
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2472-0860
DOI - 10.33011/partake.v1i1.343
Subject(s) - performative utterance , narrative , the imaginary , character (mathematics) , aesthetics , field (mathematics) , object (grammar) , categorization , sociology , point (geometry) , creativity , epistemology , computer science , art , psychology , literature , artificial intelligence , social psychology , psychoanalysis , philosophy , mathematics , geometry , pure mathematics
Taking as a starting point some performances and actions of Francis Alÿs, Nate Hill and Chris Burden whose categorization as a work of art depends on a critical or narrative discourse about them, this article presents a theoretical discussion about the performative and creative character of the different discourses that are woven around concrete or imaginary artistic actions. The actions that Jacques Lennep groups under the Human Museum heading make even more evident the role of the discoursive elements in the displacement of everyday actions towards the artistic field. Finally, the article unfolds itself in a practical experiment that seeks to demonstrate the possibility of a critical-narrative discourse effectively performative, one that creates its own object of analysis as it is performed.