THTRFLM 2CP3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Coco Fusco, Performance Art, Shared Experience
12 Feb 2018
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Performance is "a doing and a thing done" She means: - an activity to be interpreted/ received/ negotiated according to the knowledges and understandings we have available to us. Both raise questions about the differences and similarities of "theatre" and. "performance", including what counts as theater and what counts as performance. Both note the ways in which performance has been de ned in opposition to theatre practices. Hill (alone with other performance theorists such as coco fusco and guillermo gomex-pena): Seeks to challenge dominant perspectives (e. g. white and western) about the origins of performance. Hill and others challenging art history narratives that claim performance art was started by artists. Hill argues that women who sought voting rights, the suffragettes, were practicing "performance" The idea that performancecan refer to a wide range of social and cultural activities (e. g. demonstrations, rituals, popular . Now can include, for example, non-theatre soaces, site-speci c performance work, live art, etc.
