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Performativity in art, literature, and videogames
\"This book modifies the concept of performativity with media theory in order to build a rigorous method for analyzing videogame performances. Beginning with an interdisciplinary exploration of performative motifs in Western art and literary history, the book shows the importance of framing devices in orienting audiences' experience of art. The frame, as a site of paradox, links the book's discussion of theory with close readings of texts, which include artworks, books, and videogames. The resulting method is interdisciplinary in scope and will be of use to researchers interested in the performative aspects of gaming, art, digital storytelling and nonlinear narrative.\"-- Page 4 of cover.
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Monster/Beauty
This daring, intensely personal book challenges both conventional
and feminist ideas about beauty by asking us to take pleasure in
beauty without shame, and to see and feel the erotic in everyday
life. Bringing together her varied experiences as a poet, art
historian, bodybuilder, and noted performance artist, Joanna Frueh
shows us how to move beyond society's equation of youth with beauty
toward an aesthetic for the fully erotic human being. A lush
combination of autobiography, theory, photography, and poetry, this
book continues to develop the ideas about the erotic, beauty, older
women, sex, and pleasure that Frueh first addressed in Erotic
Faculties. Monster/Beauty examines these issues using a
provocative, often explicit, set of examples. Frueh admiringly
looks at the bodies and mindsets of midlife female bodybuilders,
rethinks the vampire, and revises our ideas about traditional
models of beauty, such as Aphrodite. Above all, she boldly brings
her personal experience into the text, weaving her reflections on
female sensuality with contemporary theory. These linked essays are
as much a performance as they are a discussion, breaking down the
barriers between the personal and the academic, and the erotic and
the intellectual. Frueh writes passionately and beautifully, and
the result is a much-needed exploration of beauty myths and taboos.
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A Political Dance in the Rain
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Queer films are largely absent from Indonesian cinema and television screens due to the country's current climate of LGBT 'moral panic'. This article examines how, two decades after the reformation, Indonesian film practitioners are forced to navigate complex configurations of power and knowledge-negotiating social, political, and religious entanglements through their cinematic practices. My analysis is focused on komunitas film (film community/ies) and, more specifically, events and activities surrounding Luhki Herwanayogi's short film On Friday Noon (2016), which chronicles the emotionally and physically fraught journey of a transgender Muslim woman as she seeks to perform Friday prayers. Drawing on this example, the article explores the disruptive potential of cinematic practice to challenge and nullify the ostensible binary between Islam and queerness, showing alternative ways of being Muslim in contemporary Indonesia, where piety and sexual identity often come together in unexpected ways.
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Ciała między skalami w negantropicznych sztukach performatywnych
This article offers an analysis of selected performative projects which, using a vari- ety of technological and media dispositives, problematize scaling procedures and confront audiences with non-human scales. This perspective guides the analysis of activist projects of the artist collective Earth Art Studio, which uses existing digital infrastructure and Google maps as instruments of care for the environ- ment. Yuyan Wang’s video installation The Moon Also Rises (2022), in turn, serves as an example of a technological dispositive thanks to which the viewers can have a bodily experience of planetary-scale phenomena. Also evoked is one of the key works of land art, Robert Smithson’s The Spiral Jetty (1970), and, most importantly, his film under the same title, made in collaboration with Nancy Holt. This return to the past of performative arts clearly shows that they have been problematizing the question of scale for at least half a century, anticipating, as it were, the critics of the Anthropocene, who have relatively recently begun to call for a revision of the scalar regime of modernity.
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Uciec z antropocenu (w towarzystwie pająków, monarchów i cyfrowych technologii)
In this article, the author looks closely at two arthropod species which Donna Ha- raway sees as playing an important role in accelerating the longed-for end of the Anthropocene. One of them is the Californian spider Pimoa cthulu whose generic name she has slightly changed to better emphasize the chthonic dimension of the coming Chthulucene. The other one is Danaus plexippus, the monarch butterfly or simply monarch, the protagonist of her speculative fabulation “Camille Stories”, published in Staying with Trouble (2016). Two artworks stand at the center of the author’s interest: the video Ride the Wind and Draw a Line (1973) by the Japanese artist Fujiko Nakaya which became a key-element in her retrospective Nebel Leben in Munich’s Haus der Kunst (2022) and the digital project and immersive installa- tion Methuselah by the Cuban artist Reynier Leyva Novo, exhibited in New York’s Museo del Barrio (2023). Their comparative analysis opens a new perspective to showcase an emerging zone of contact which Eduardo Kohn calls more-than-human anthropology and Bernard Stiegler – neganthropology. Based on this comparison, the article also demonstrates the performative affordances of digital technologies which in the two projects become therapeutic tools of care within more-than-hu- man relationalities.
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Estetika performatívneho umenia: zložky performancie optikou aktuálnej teórie
Prítomnosť a genealógiu pojmov performativita a performancia je možné sledovať vo viacerých líniách, sú obsiahnuté v reflexii filozofie, v spoločenských vedách aj v rámci vied o umení. Na kreovaní jazyka performatívneho umenia sa spolupodieľali experimenty divadelnej avantgardy, idey moderny a postštrukturalistické vplyvy. Akcentovanie performatívnych stratégií v kultúre a umení a reflexia naprieč vednými disciplínami iniciovali stav (analogický tzv. obratu k jazyku), pre ktorý sa zaužívalo pomenovanie performatívny obrat. Predložený text rozširuje diskusiu o performatívnom umení a performativite o perspektívu estetiky. Z kategoriálneho aparátu filozofie, estetiky a recepčnej estetiky autorka štúdie identifikuje zložky performancie a následne ich interpretuje ako konštitučné princípy performancie.
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Performing More-Than-Human Corporeal Connections in Kiki Smith’s Sculpture
The article examines work by contemporary American artist Kiki Smith, who proposes a future in which human and nonhuman bodily borders merge. The artist’s contribution to the more-than-human artistic entanglements is juxtaposed with Joseph Beuys’s artistic manifesto from 1974 which proposes, among other things, an attempt to get outside of the represented human towards the asignified ahuman. In Kiki’s sculpture, both human and nonhuman animals undergo constant morphogenesis, becoming hybrid forms far beyond the human-social paradigm, implying that the human and nonhuman binary, due to the exchange of affective entanglements, is no longer valid in the heyday of techno-scientific development. The analyzed work shows that both human and nonhuman bodies are raw materials not separated from one another but always interconnected with the world and its ongoing material processes. Thus, the article emphasizes that it is only through the transgression of the human and nonhuman border that one can acknowledge the more ethical and political ways of cooperation needed for the appreciation of the multispecies dimension of our world and its survival.
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La contribución del lenguaje indéxico a la reconciliación en sociedades divididas por la violencia
El artículo examina cómo el lenguaje indéxico, integrado en prácticas performativas, activa la memoria histórica y fomenta la reconciliación en sociedades divididas. A partir de un estudio etnográfico, se analiza la instalación sonora Cantos silentes en cuerpos de madera (2017), del artista Leonel Vásquez, que combina elementos sensoriales y materiales para resignificar ausencias históricas en contextos contemporáneos. La metodología incluye observaciones de la interacción del público con la obra; registro de reacciones emocionales; entrevistas con familiares de víctimas de la represión franquista, y con voluntarios y actores vinculados al proceso de exhumación. Los resultados muestran que las prácticas artísticas indéxicas transforman lo ausente -como voces y rastros de hechos trágicos- en experiencias palpables y compartidas, capaces de evocar memorias traumáticas, movilizar emociones colectivas y promover una reflexión ética sobre la ausencia y el duelo. Se concluye que estas prácticas resignifican el pasado y funcionan como herramientas transformadoras para impulsar pedagogías y proyectos comunitarios que reconocen la pluralidad sin excluir la diferencia.
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Kosmetinės kaukės motyvas Lietuvos šiuolaikinėje dailėje
Nuo XXI a. 2 deš. Lietuvos dailėje sutinkamas veidą dengiančios ir jį „veikiančios“ kosmetinės kaukės motyvas. Jis ypač raiškus Kristinos Ališauskaitės, Jolantos Kyzikaitės ir Eglės Vertelkaitės kūryboje. Straipsnyje svarstoma apie vieną ankstyviausių šios kaukės integravimo į meno erdvę atvejį – 2000 m. parodos Nekaltas gyvenimas projektą Grožio laboratorija. Keliama prielaida, kad kosmetinė kaukė Lietuvos šiuolaikinės dailės fenomenų lauke pirmiausia pasirodė kaip dokumentiškai fiksuojama performatyvi tikrovė, kaip tolygiai gyvenimo ir meno sferų faktas, o vėliau – kaip dailės kūrinių, šiuo atveju – tapybos, grafikos, ikonografinė figūra. Straipsnyje, remiantis minėtų menininkių kūrinių pavyzdžiais, bandoma atskleisti kai kuriuos reikšminius šios išskirtinai pragmatinės, nereprezentatyvios kaukės aspektus.
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