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- ISSN: 2040-5669
- E-ISSN: 2040-5677
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Time-specificity of performance
- Source: Choreographic Practices, Volume 5, Issue 2, Dec 2014, p. 183 - 197
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- 01 Dec 2014
Abstract
Abstract
This article develops a notion of time-specificity of performance. It begins by taking a temporal approach to performance through the philosophy of Henri Bergson. It looks at three artists/collectives: Tehching Hsieh; Every House Has a Door and Janez Janša, Janez Janša and Janez Janša. Their practices play with notions of the present, past and future, and by doing so set new terms for a temporal aesthetics of experience. Time-specificity opens up reconsiderations of pivotal notions within performance such as repetition, documentation and freedom.
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