Documenting the Ephemeral: reconsidering the idea of presence in discussions on performance

The category of presence plays a major role in the most accepted definitions of performance art. This centrality of the ephemeral presence of the artist’s body has prevented an appreciation of performance documentation in all its importance. Taking Peggy Phelan’s position as representative of the pr...

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Autor: Ayerbe (Universidad de Deusto – Bilbao/Vizcaya, España), Nerea
Formato: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2022
País:Brasil
Recursos:Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS)
Repositorio:Revista Brasileira de Estudos da Presença
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:seer.ufrgs.br:article/69648
Acesso em linha:https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/presenca/article/view/69648
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:Performance
Presencia
Efímero
Documentación
Materialidad
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Presence
Ephemeral
Documentation
Materiality
Présence
Éphémère
Materialité
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Resumo:The category of presence plays a major role in the most accepted definitions of performance art. This centrality of the ephemeral presence of the artist’s body has prevented an appreciation of performance documentation in all its importance. Taking Peggy Phelan’s position as representative of the prevailing paradigm, this article presents its main objections and intends to broaden the concept of presence in its application to performance to accommodate the documentation processes.