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Real performance on the pseudo network: Franklin Furnace and the Internet as an open medium
Sant, Anthony, «Real performance on the pseudo network: Franklin Furnace and the Internet as an open medium». Ph.D., , Ann Arbor, United States 2003 Abstract This dissertation sets out to document a significant moment in performance history: the early years of live art on the Internet as presented by Franklin Furnace, a New York-based nonprofit arts organization. In the process I also aim to create some awareness to the fact that access to the Web as a creative medium may soon be taken over by governmental and commercial interests to be regulated and controlled like radio and television broadcasting. Since 1998 I have closely observed the performances presented online by…
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Photography and contemporary Spanish theater: Kaleidoscopic modes of dramatic representation
Hodge, Polly Jane, «Photography and contemporary Spanish theater: Kaleidoscopic modes of dramatic representation». Ph.D., , Ann Arbor, United States 1995 Abstract This project is an examination of the modes of representation in contemporary Spanish theatrical arts. I investigate the world view, technical and dramatic features and theoretical concerns regarding the different modes of representation in theater: theatrical, dramatic and photographic texts. My emphasis is on the mode of photography and the conceptualization of gender within the different modes of representation. I propose a photo-theatrical gaze as a way of looking at photographs of theatrical productions through a comparative lens, an optic that considers the many texts within which a theatrical…
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The silver stage: Theatre in the age of mechanical reproduction
Bleam, Jeffrey Robert, «The silver stage: Theatre in the age of mechanical reproduction». Ph.D., , Ann Arbor, United States 2005 Abstract Implicit in its subtitle (“Theatre in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction”), this study begins with a rejection of Walter Benjamin’s assurance that the theatrical arts are immune from the ideological processes inherent in mechanical reproduction. I seek to argue that as theatre artists and encultured subjects in general, we process information and form perceptual strategies through a series of frames created and encouraged by the representational field of the larger visual culture at specific times and societies. I contend that these frames and strategies do not change over time…
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Body, Camera, Action: Understanding the Metamorphosis of Performance Art in Japan
Melnikova, Daria, «Body, Camera, Action: Understanding the Metamorphosis of Performance Art in Japan». Ph.D., , Ann Arbor, United States 2018 Abstract This dissertation is a study of the specific medium “performance art” (pafōmansu āto) in Japan, situated in the transnational and comparative context of the 1960s and the 2010s. Extensively drawing on the art criticism of Akiyama Kuniharu, Ishiko Junzō, Sawaragi Noi, Tōno Yoshiaki, Tone Yasunao, and Yoshida Yoshie, this research investigates the discursive space of performance that constructs a multiplicity of historical terms such as happenings, events, festivals, spectacle. In the 1960s, the fashion of happenings (initially coined by American artist Allan Kaprow) spread outside of artistic institutions such…
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Circulating the event: the social life of performance documentation, 1965–1975
Santone, Jessica Lynne, «Circulating the event: the social life of performance documentation, 1965–1975». Ph.D., , Ann Arbor, United States 2011 Abstract This dissertation reevaluates the relationship between performance acts and documents by considering the way documentation was understood within the time of an event. Expanding on Alain Badiou’s theory of evental ‘Twoness’ in Being and Event, I develop an approach to performance that always takes documents and performance acts together, as corresponding producers of an art event. Looking at acts and documents together, one notices how the type of repetition enacted between them allows for variation and novelty in an event. One important implication of this approach is a stronger…
