The aesthetic of the unfinished: ethics and performance
- 1 January 2004
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Text and Performance Quarterly
- Vol. 24 (1) , 1-19
- https://doi.org/10.1080/1046293042000239447
Abstract
This essay highlights the presence and problems associated with the structure of a dialectic between materiality and virtuality in various discourses regarding body and performance art. I suggest that both the structures and interpretations of body and performance art practices located in various contexts with different relations to technology reproduce the material/virtual dialectic in problematic ways. I propose that an attention to ethical aesthetic engagement provides an escape from the dialectic's reproduction of the separation between the corporeal and the virtual. Through Bakhtin, I posit a framework for producing ethically engaged aesthetic acts.Keywords
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