Reframing performance's ontology: hybridity in contemporary performance art's ontology. Issue 3 (2nd September 2022)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Willard, Zane Austin
• Is Part Of: International journal of performance arts and digital media. Volume 18:Issue 3(2022)
• Page Start: 390
• Page End: 402
• Publication Date: 2022-09-02
• Subjects: Performance art -- performance studies -- postmodernism -- Allan Kaprow -- Peggy Phelan; Performance art -- Periodicals; Performance art -- Data processing -- Periodicals; Digital media -- Periodicals; Digital media; Performance art; Periodicals; 700.285
• DOI: 10.1080/14794713.2022.2097982
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2040-0934

Abstract

ABSTRACT: I argue performance studies' modernist ontological assumptions of fleeting are antithetical to contemporary performance art which relies on digital technology for mediated viewing processes. In this essay, I argue for a hybrid postmodern performance studies that allow for varying modes of experiencing performance art. I situate Allan Kaprow and Fluxus as the genealogical beginning of performance and argue that Peggy Phelan's ontological assumptions of performance are inherently modernist. I then pose a postmodern approach to performance studies that embrace an embodiment of hybrid viewing methodologies of performance. Lastly, I use three examples as embodiments and symptomatic representations of this embodiment of a hybrid postmodern performance ontology.