The Inherent Potential in Art Performance: To Critically Challenge Art Traditions in Scenes of Love and Sexual Desire [Hardcover]

This book spotlights art works and art performances whose common denominator is the theme of (self-)representation of persons in the female category in scenes of love and sexuality.

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.

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/ManPresent/Female Divide

Chapter 3: Vested in the Jupiter and Io Narrative: Voices in Visual Culture Studies, Feminist, and AntiRacist 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

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