‘Performance exists in all human cultures, and society has always sought to impose organisational thought-or theory- on what it is that takes place, and how and why’ (Freeman 2007,p.1). The notion of Performance Writing within Contemporary Experimental Performance can be formed from a wide range or different sources, some that would even be questioned as as there […]
Performance Vs Observing
One of the main questions arisen with this particular genre of experiential performance is the audience and their relevance within the piece. Are the audience relevant? Pretending they don’t exist, audiences aren’t there. What do they need? Is there a complex relationship between audience and performance This is most relevant within experimental performance as we soon discovered by creating our piece, […]
Odyssey, The Paper Cinema
The Paper Cinema Theatre Company bought an extremely innovating, experimental and ground-breaking performance to LPAC in October 2012; giving us valuable insight into how a professional contemporary performance art theatre group puts on a polished performance. Based on Homer’s Odyssey, The Paper Cinema combines ancient Greek literature and the use of live recordings, a camera […]
What Happens When We Just Sit Here?
In preparation for the experiment ‘What Happens When We Just Sit There?’, we were given an extract to read on the performance artist Marina Abramovic. In the extract she describes one of her collaborative performances Nightsea Crossing. For twelve years she worked alongside Ulay (Frank Uwe Laysiepen) and created many performances together. Throughout their collaborative years the […]
An Introduction to Contemporary Performance.
“The term Contemporary Performance is used to describe hybrid performance works and artists that travel between the fields of Experimental Theatre & Dance, Video Art, Visual Art, Music Composition and Performance Art without adhering to one specific field’s practice” (Manson 2011) The art of Contemporary Experimental Performance is built of multiple sub-genres, all progressive of […]