Indeterminacy in Site-specific Performance

Indeterminacy in Site-specific Performance
2015

Site-specificity’ is typically aligned to those practices of visual art where their meanings are inextricable to site; however, its theorisation has been elaborated through a defence of disciplinary boundaries. In One Place After Another, Miwon Kwon begins by referring to site-specific art as: ‘Site-determined, site- orientated, site-referenced, site-conscious, site-related’. Yet site-specificity in relation to site- performance, would I propose, be better served by negotiating the intersections of body and site. Site-specificity and indeterminacy will be considered through what happens between site and performance: disruption, undetermined and permeability. Detailing a number of projects from my own practice including: White Trash 2006, Toulouse, France; En Residencia 2009 Gijón, Spain and Patrwn 2010 Minde, Portugal, the paper highlights the indeterminacies of site and boundary, performance and spectator through the practice of site-specific performance.

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