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Quand le discours se fait geste - Regards croisés sur la conférence-performance

Artist lecture, dance-lecture, narrative performance, performed
reading—in recent years, there has been no shortage of terms to designate the
new body-presence regimes in contemporary art, regimes developed in close
relationship with language and its various forms of exhibition. This book is an
attempt to critically explore this transdisciplinary, hybrid theme, at a
historical moment marked just as much by “storytelling”, “post-truth” and
“alternative facts” as by art’s increasingly pervasive involvement in the
knowledge market. How are we to understand the place that performativity
occupies within contemporary art’s widened discursive space? What are the new
relationships and configurations that this space generates between bodies and
language, between practice and theory? To what extent can one describe a
gesture that, though made up of words, seems to resist speech?

 

With
contributions by: Anaël Lejeune, Vassilis Salpistis, Matthieu Saladin, Gilles
Amalvi, Jean-Philippe Antoine, Vangelis Athanassopoulos,
Anne Creissels, Guillaume Désanges and Éric Valette.

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Vangelis Athanassopoulos, Quand le discours se fait geste – Regards croisés sur la conférence-performance

Publisher:
Les presses du réel

Field: Criticism,
theory & documents

Collection:
Figures

Publication
date: February 2018

Price
(incl. tax): 20,00 €

Number of
pages: 176

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