• Performed Photography

    The PhotoPerformer : The Performance of Photography as an Act of Precarious Interdependency

    Vason, Manuel, «The PhotoPerformer : The Performance of Photography as an Act of Precarious Interdependency». PhD Thesis, Brighton University, 2019 Abstract This PhD by Publication explores Manuel Vason’s art practice at the intersections of photography and performance culminating in his development of the PhotoPerformer. Vason formulates the interdependency between the two art forms as a reflexive collaboration with the Other and as an evolving methodology which leads to a collaborative transformation of photography through performance. Vason questions the fixity of photography – symbolized by ‘the frame’ – as an ideological dispositive of power and control that distances subject and object and enforces a unique, absolute and finished perspective. Considering photography…