“I Do Not See the [Technology] Hidden in the Forest”: In the Loop of Performance Documentation, Reenactment, and Digital Reality
“I Do Not See the [Technology] Hidden in the Forest”: In the Loop of Performance Documentation, Reenactment, and Digital Reality

Summary/Abstract: This article analyses aspects of performance art such as documenting, reenactments, blockchain-minted performance, and bio performativity. It is argued that while technology has always been implicitly inscribed in performance art, recent developments in large-language-model algorithms and virtual reality have brought these issues back into focus, enabling their effective application. In a time of deepened mediatization of everyday life, the question of documentations and reenactments refers us to the significance of corporeality in performance. In her analysis of the examples presented, the author returns to the assumptions of unmarked bodily presence in the context of digital performance ontology and points out new technologies as an interface between the presence and absence of the body in digital performances. She argues that in today’s world, the foundation of performance is the digitally conditioned dynamic tension between the body’s presence and absence.

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