Practices of Relations in Task-Dance and the Event-Score

Josefine Wikström is Associate Professor of Dance Theory at Stockholm University of the Arts.

• Content Acknowledgements Introduction: From a cultural to a critical concept of performance Performance, performativity and its disciples Marx’s epistemology: A critical methodology Post-mediality and a generic concept of performance Task-Dance and the Event-Score: Epistemological ProblemsChapter 1. Practice: Performance a practice of relations Practice and a metaphysics of practice in Aristotle From action painting to performance art From musical modernism to performance in general Marx’s relational practice: Smith, Hegel and Feuerbach Performance, a practice of relations Chapter 2. Experience: Art as experience or an art to experience?2.1. Dewey’s concept of experience: Unmediated interaction2.2. Art as experience: Ono and Forti2.3. Critical limits of Dewey’s experience: Kant versus Dewey Chapter 3. Object: Acts of negations of the medium-specific art object3.1. The minimalist and the de-materialised object 3.2. From independent things to acts of the subject 3.2. Dance and event as object: Kant3.3. Phenomenal objectivities in task-dance and event-score practices: HusserlChapter 4. Abstraction: Task-dance’s abstract ontology4.1. Rainer’s No-Manifesto and other negations 4.2. The social form of abstract labour: Marx 4.3. The autonomous artwork in Adorno4.4. Division of labour, abstract time and the disciplined body. Chapter 5. Structure: The performative structure-object 5.1. Structural objects in task-dance and in structuralism: Trisha Brown’ Accumulation 5.2. The Performativity of the Cartesian I 5.3. Labour in general, art in general, performance in generalNotesBibliography Index of names Subject index Index of works