TY  - JOUR
A1  - Herrschaft, Felicia
T1  - Performing proximity - "Learning to fly"
T2  - Forum qualitative Sozialforschung: FQS
N2  - 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.
KW  - performative social science
KW  - artworld/socialworld
KW  - performativity
KW  - biographical research
Y1  - 2017
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/43653
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-436538
UR  - http://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/article/view/393
SN  - 1438-5627
N1  - This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
VL  - 9
IS  - No. 2, Art. 62
PB  - Freie Univ. Berlin
CY  - Berlin
ER  -