Unit:
Department of Music StudiesLibrary of the School of Philosophy
Author:
Chatzidimitriou Konstantinos
Supervisors info:
1. Βασιλική Λαλιώτη, Μόνιμη Επίκουρη Καθηγήτρια, Τμήμα Μουσικών Σπουδών, Εθνικό και Καποδιστριακό Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών,
2. Ελένη Καλλιμοπούλου, Επίκουρη Καθηγήτρια, Τμήμα Μουσικών Σπουδών, Εθνικό και Καποδιστριακό Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών,
3. Παναγιώτης Πούλος, Επίκουρος Καθηγητής, Τμήμα Μουσικών Σπουδών, Εθνικό και Καποδιστριακό Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών.
Original Title:
Επιτέλεση, σώμα και ψηφιακές τεχνολογίες
Translated title:
Performance, body and digital technologies
Summary:
The transition from "live" to online performance (an experimentation of artistic survival in the period of the pandemic), belongs to a problematic of wider discussion and questioning of established ideas about the nature of theater and performance. The resistance to the recognition of digital performance as a legitimate theatrical medium stems from the rift between the real and the potential which is well rooted in the broader distinction that the Western world has introduced between the technological and social realms. Organized artistic creation is understood in a variety of ways, it activates power relations and aesthetic politics and is activated by them. Contemporary anthropology and the performing arts place particular emphasis on the ways in which theory and experience interpenetrate each other. The relationship between the study of performance and performance itself is inseparable.
The first chapter of the paper begins with an introduction around the questions posed by anthropology in relation to the way digitality mediates communication and culture, as well as the effects of digital technologies on humans. Then a connection is attempted between the theoretical discourse of anthropology and performance studies from the 1960s onwards – two fields of knowledge that closely followed the concept of performance through the new artistic genres that emerged, such as the "happenings" , performance art and mixed techniques based on new technologies - with specific examples from performances I watched myself and which is expanded in the second chapter with an orientation to embodied transformations and bodily meanings. Finally, in the third chapter I explore the concept of potentiality and the concerns raised by the transition from "physical" to digital performance.
Main subject category:
Geography - Anthropology - Folklore
Keywords:
Performance, body, embodiment, digitality, virtuality, avatar, cyborg, performer, audience, reality, intensity, Castellucci
