Performance/Ritual/Theory. Interpretation of Exercise: Manifestation–Incarnation of the Space of Perception Cover Image

Performans/Ritual/Teorija. Tumačenje Vežbe: Ispoljavanja–Uobličavanja Prostora Posmatranja
Performance/Ritual/Theory. Interpretation of Exercise: Manifestation–Incarnation of the Space of Perception

Author(s): Zoran Belić Weiss
Subject(s): Visual Arts
Published by: Fakultet za medije i komunikacije - Univerzitet Singidunum
Keywords: performance; visual arts; kinesthetic; rhetoric; syntax; audience; Zoran Belić Weiss

Summary/Abstract: A short analysis of classification of disciplines, arts, artistic fields and performance art, as well as a brief overview of the visual arts tradition that articulates a new area and the discipline of performance art (with an emphasis on the early avant-guard and examples of performance art during sixties and seventies of the 20th century), is followed by a theoretical model of categories, i.e. four types of performance art: formal, experiential, symbolic, and ritual, including three crucial attributes of each category: rhetoric, syntax, audience, and then, finally, by an application of this general theoretical model to an analysis of an example of performance art Exercise: Manifestation-Incarnation of the Space of Perception by Zoran Belic Weiss from the 1980.

  • Issue Year: 2014
  • Issue No: 06
  • Page Range: 11-24
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Serbian