La «performance» i els mèdia: la utilització de la imatge

Abstract

The performance has evolved appreciably from the first action of John Cage and Allan Kaprow to the present-day performances of Laurie Anderson, Michel Lemieux or Monty Cantsin. That genre has developed from the staging of the performer's «vulnerability», subjected to the chances of a desired fate, into the absolute command of the technological means, more and more numerous ahd sophisticated.

If previously the performance had questionned the creation process, basing itself on itself since often there was a lack of rigour, nowadays it questions forms and materials, playing with them and giving answers where befare it would raise questions.

That text is an analysis of this evolution towards the integration of new technologies, dealing with very specific aspects, such as the video-performances, and more analytic ones related to the theorization of perception. At the same time it defines the main characteristics of the performance: the manipulation to which the performer's body and the space inhabited by him are subjected, and _the relationship between the artist and the audience, a relationship determined by him through the basic perceptive strategies of the art of the performance.