The Inherent Potential in Art Performance

This book spotlights artworks and art performances whose common denominator is the theme of (self-)representation of artists in the 'woman' category in scenes of love and sexuality. Pursuing the research practice of deep drilling, this study presents various methodologies and research directions to create diverse perspectives on the selected artworks. This book combines historical outlines based on art history, visual culture studies, new methodologies in theatre studies and digressions into sociology. Philosophical readings will complement the resulting multiple perspective, in which figures of thought such as transimmanence, the theory of performativity and body-mind dualism are of specific interest. This research brings to the fore networks of sedimented and entangled histories and their role in shaping our ways of seeing. This study will be of great interest to scholars and students in dance, dance performance and art performance.

Iris Julian is a cultural scientist who holds a doctorate in philosophy at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and was a member of the research group 'Media and Participation' based at the University of Konstanz, Leuphana University Lüneburg, Zurich University of the Arts, and the University of Hamburg. Her research scrutinises processes of diversification in dance and art performance, as well as collaborative processes in the arts.

Introduction: The 'Woman' Is Present While the 'Man' Is Absent in Western Art Chapter 1. The Absent 'Man': In Depictions of Love and Sexual Desire. Chapter 2: Love Scenes ... Unfinished: Opening Up the Established Absent/Man-Present/Female Divide Chapter 3: Vested in the Jupiter and Io Narrative: Voices in Visual Culture Studies, Feminist, and Anti-Racist Discourses Chapter 4: Jupiter and Io - Behind the Fourth Wall: A Staging Strategy and an Analytical Framework in Theatre Studies Chapter 5: The Audience ... All Over: Immersive Forms of Theatre: Challenging the Actor/Spectator Divide Chapter 6: Conclusion: Prominently Putting Forward the Term Potential