1st Edition
Practices of Relations in Task-Dance and the Event-Score A Critique of Performance
Content
Acknowledgements
Introduction: From a cultural to a critical concept of performance
- Performance, performativity and its disciples
- Marx’s epistemology: A critical methodology
- Post-mediality and a generic concept of performance
- Task-Dance and the Event-Score: Epistemological Problems
Chapter 1. Practice: Performance a practice of relations
- Practice and a metaphysics of practice in Aristotle
- From action painting to performance art
- From musical modernism to performance in general
- Marx’s relational practice: Smith, Hegel and Feuerbach
- Performance, a practice of relations
Chapter 2. Experience: Art as experience or an art to experience?
2.1. Dewey’s concept of experience: Unmediated interaction
2.2. Art as experience: Ono and Forti
2.3. Critical limits of Dewey’s experience: Kant versus Dewey
Chapter 3. Object: Acts of negations of the medium-specific art object
3.1. The minimalist and the de-materialised object
3.2. From independent things to acts of the subject
3.2. Dance and event as object: Kant
3.3. Phenomenal objectivities in task-dance and event-score practices: Husserl
Chapter 4. Abstraction: Task-dance’s abstract ontology
4.1. Rainer’s No-Manifesto and other negations
4.2. The social form of abstract labour: Marx
4.3. The autonomous artwork in Adorno
4.4. Division of labour, abstract time and the disciplined body.
Chapter 5. Structure: The performative structure-object
5.1. Structural objects in task-dance and in structuralism: Trisha Brown’ Accumulation
5.2. The Performativity of the Cartesian I
5.3. Labour in general, art in general, performance in general
Notes
Bibliography
Index of names
Subject index
Index of works
Biography
Josefine Wikström is Associate Professor of Dance Theory at Stockholm University of the Arts.
