Performance Art as Critical Knowledge Production: Reclaim Despotism. Rethinking an Education of Performance Art in Denmark

Sofie Volquartz Lebech

Abstract

This paper discusses performance art as a mode of producing knowledge that challenges an instrumentalisation of art as well as a standardisation of academic methods. Performance art produces knowledge that overflows our common understanding of what knowledge can be while at the same time running the risk of mimicking the neoliberal demand for continuous knowledge production. On the backdrop of her current work as a practice-based PhD Fellow, Lebech focuses on the entanglement between research and art and discusses the drawbacks and potentials of this development within art and academia.
OriginalsprogEngelsk
Publikationsdato18 maj 2017
StatusUdgivet - 18 maj 2017
BegivenhedRe-think Dramaturgy, Theatre and Performance Studies: Re-search, re-consider, re-make - Aarhus University, Aarhus, Danmark
Varighed: 18 maj 201720 maj 2017
http://conferences.au.dk/ants2017/

Konference

KonferenceRe-think Dramaturgy, Theatre and Performance Studies
LokationAarhus University
Land/OmrådeDanmark
ByAarhus
Periode18/05/201720/05/2017
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