This project consisted of a two year investigation into the overarching concept of the relationship between the artist, audience and artwork.
Inspired by Roland Barthes writings of the Death Of The Author I started to dissect, with using a performative methodology, the framework to understand my involvement in art and through breaking the framework down, I began to create a series of performances that looked at a specific power relationship. these performances were:
The Audience And The Artwork
The Artist Becoming the Artwork
The Artist And The Artwork
The Artist And The Audience
Throughout the investigation into the the conceptual framework my research consisted of a library of different sources. Which helped to develop my practice contextually, critically and theoretically.
I was interested through exploring in my theory and artist research how; Memory, Documentation, Body, and Audience have been addressed.
Specific theorists surrounding performance studies:
Clare Bishop: Participation and Artificial Hells
Philip Auslander: Liveness, Theory of Performance Study, The Performativity of Performance Document
Jacques Derrida: Of Hospitality
Research that I have looked at relating to performance from an outside perspective:
Roland Barthes: Death of the Author
The Crucible: Arthur Miller
Relational Aesthetics: Nicholas Burrio
Plato’s Allegory of the Cave
Sartre: No Exit Play
Artists:
Haley Newman
Olivier De Sagazan
Tino Seghal
Marina Abramovic
My intention was to investigate into the relationship between the artis, audience and the artwork I purposely chose to look at performance, and, in particular, the involvement of the artist (body) as I wanted to physically involve myself in this personal dialogue between the artist and the audience. This allowed me to engage with the audience through a non-verbal dialogue. This relationship can be both personal and impersonal conversation of judgments and expectations. Throughout the exploration into performance I constructed a series of investigations that evolved around the relationship between the artist and the audience.
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