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

Sofie Volquartz Lebech

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

Sofie Volquartz Lebech

Department of Arts and Cultural Studies

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.

Original language	English
Publication date	18 May 2017
Publication status	Published - 18 May 2017
Event	Re-think Dramaturgy, Theatre and Performance Studies: Re-search, re-consider, re-make - Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark Duration: 18 May 2017 → 20 May 2017 http://conferences.au.dk/ants2017/

Conference

Conference	Re-think Dramaturgy, Theatre and Performance Studies
Location	Aarhus University
Country/Territory	Denmark
City	Aarhus
Period	18/05/2017 → 20/05/2017
Internet address	http://conferences.au.dk/ants2017/

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