This relates - I say no more than that, I have no thesis so far - to the
new exhibition at Tate in London. I haven't been there yet.
Review discussions have worried at questions of surveillance when people
*do know they are under observation, when they don't, when they might,
when they are faking it one way or the other etc
and all that arises from that
I may say more when I have been
L
On Fri, May 28, 2010 01:08, Alison Croggon wrote:
> The nature of performance is that it IS witnessed. And yes, the
> performing presence is a role that in itself questions and invokes other
> roles, including the role of the audience. The witnessing includes the
> audience who witness the encounter, and the witness opposite the table is
> part of the performance. And who is to say that this "demonstration" is
> simply about reputation? Can you be so sure that those people photographed
> were just turning on the tears because it was expected of participating in
> a show with a well known artist at MOMA?
>
>
> All this stuff about threat is interesting. Why were people threatened?
>
>
> xA
>
> On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 8:50 AM, Catherine Daly <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
>> I can see how it being smaller would have lessened the sideshow
>> atmosphere. It was, to me, not about the artist being present, or
>> being, or being with another (after another, after another, in the huge
>> snaking line around the artist and the spotlights and the cameras). It
>> was very much a performance, and beyond that, to me, a show or
>> demonstration, not of being, or of presence, but of being a well known
>> artist with a retrospective at MOMA, and witnessing that, and being
>> witnessed as that.
>>
>> I was looking for her artist statements online, and found comments from
>> the reperformers instead, how threatened they felt by many of the people
>> (who
>> often touched them), and how the viewers felt threatened. Also how many
>> of the reperformers did so for a boost to their careers.
>>
>> I am now wondering not about the cushion, but about the table and the
>> lack of a cushion on the other chair.
>>
>> There are a couple of journals and presses that print anonymous works
>> only.
>>
>> --
>> All best,
>> Catherine Daly
>> [log in to unmask]
>>
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