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Material Traces: Performativity, Artistic “Work,” and New Concepts of Agency
- TDR: The Drama Review
- The MIT Press
- Volume 59, Number 4, Winter 2015 (T228)
- pp. 18-35
- Article
- Additional Information
A new genre of hybrid artworks involving elements of performance, conceptualism, sculpture, and installation practices evokes complex art experiences that are performative yet exist in various material forms — including, implicitly or explicitly, that of the artist’s laboring body. These works call for new ways of engaging that do not dwell on final objects or celebrate “authentic” presence but understand the relational tensions and seductions between human and nonhuman.