All presence is mediated. Performance becomes itself through disaappearance.
Amelia Jones:
- traces
- historical references (learned though documentation)
- mediation through the material that arrives to us before we see the performance
- performance and documentation are created at the same time
- questioning if the presence of the spectator is needed (do I need to be there to understand, to write about a performance)
Philip Auslander:
- noticed in rock music how the performance of musicians follow the documentation (music edited in the studio and most known by spectators)
Peggy Phellan
works without professionally trained performers:
Naturality strikes back – paradoxical: technology is always revealed
Works
Tony Oursler – installation / video – | video-mask
machines on stage with an element – “The Theatre of Ears” | he wanted the spectator to give more attention to the text, he removed the human actor
Denis Marleau – video performances / digital reproduction of faces
Fantasmagories
Becket (3 men inside funerary vases)
A two dogs company – “Huminid”, “Dancer”
Try to technologicaly emulate human presence
Uncanny Valley: paradoxical attraction and repulsion from a human towards a robot
Annie Dorsen – “Hello Hi There” | created from the dialogue between Noam Chomsky and Foucault. It is a chat that reconfigures the converstion, delivered by 2 computers
Heiner Goebbels (text)
William Forsythe – Choreographic Objects | deanthropomorphize – industrial robot taken out of the industrial landscape and placed in the museum (black flags waving)
