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

Abstract

<p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p>