Performing proximity - "Learning to fly"
- The following paper is about artists doing experimental and performative art who expect the spectators to become participants in the process of artwork production. The artwork is thus produced through a process of participation. As a researcher, I was similarly expected to participate in the artwork process. As I observed, the artists worked at having their agency in the artwork process recognized by the participating spectators. At the same time, the artists create a certain proximity to the spectators-participants through performing art, which I call "performing proximity." By involving the participants in their art-in-process, they make use of their agency to redefine the artworld and enlarge it into other social worlds. I also discuss how artists' ability to enact redefined social worlds can be compared to agency in performative social science and in biographical research.
| Author: | Felicia Herrschaft |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-436538 |
| URL: | http://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/article/view/393 |
| ISSN: | 1438-5627 |
| Parent Title (German): | Forum qualitative Sozialforschung: FQS |
| Publisher: | Freie Univ. Berlin |
| Place of publication: | Berlin |
| Document Type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Year of Completion: | 2017 |
| Year of first Publication: | 2008 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Release Date: | 2017/06/02 |
| Tag: | artworld/socialworld; biographical research; performative social science; performativity |
| Volume: | 9 |
| Issue: | No. 2, Art. 62 |
| Page Number: | 18 |
| Note: | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. |
| HeBIS-PPN: | 428711928 |
| Institutes: | Gesellschaftswissenschaften / Gesellschaftswissenschaften |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 30 Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie / 300 Sozialwissenschaften |
| Sammlungen: | Universitätspublikationen |
| Licence (German): |  Creative Commons - Namensnennung 4.0 |
