Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 1999. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 298-308). Available also in a digital version from Dissertation Abstracts.

Submitted by Luiza Kleinubing (luiza.kleinubing@udesc.br) on 2018-03-16T16:26:10Z No. of bitstreams: 1 JOSÉ RICARDO GOULART.pdf: 2971161 bytes, checksum: dac0c5b3b7ea842745b0f19f1e9772fb (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-03-16T16:26:10Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 JOSÉ RICARDO GOULART.pdf: 2971161 bytes, checksum: dac0c5b3b7ea842745b0f19f1e9772fb (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-02-18 / The notion of reperformance is established and passed with the Marina Abramović’s exhibition The Artist is Present, in 2010. Five years earlier, however, the serbian artist had resubmitted works by other performers. This practice calls into question the relationship of artistic work with the here and now of the context in which is (re) presented, once the performance has emerged as ephemeral and unrepeatable art. The German philosopher Walter Benjamin diagnosed in the 30s, the decline of the artwork aura due to its mechanical reproduction. Taking such exhibition as a starting point, and 7 Easy Pieces (2005) and Terra Comunal (2015), I intend to investigate in this work the relationships arise between the terms performance, reperformance, reproducibility and aura. / A noção de reperformance se instaura e encontra repercussão com a exposição A Artista está Presente, de Marina Abramovic, em 2010. Cinco anos antes, porém, a artista sérvia já havia reapresentado obras de outros performers. Esta prática coloca em questão a relação da obra artística com o aqui e o agora do contexto em que é (re)apresentada, uma vez que a performance tenha surgido como arte efêmera e não repetível. O filósofo alemão Walter Benjamin diagnosticou, no anos 30, o declínio da aura da obra de arte em decorrência de sua reprodutibilidade técnica. Tomando como ponto de partida a referida exposição, além de Sete Peças Fáceis (2005) e Terra Comunal (2015), pretendo investigar, neste trabalho, as consequências decorrentes das relações que emergem entre os termos reperformance, reprodutibilidade e aura.

Thesis (M.A.)--Stony Brook University, 2008. / This official electronic copy is part of the DSpace Stony Brook theses & dissertations collection maintained by the University Libraries, Special Collections & University Archives on behalf of the Stony Brook Graduate School. It is stored in the SUNY Digital Institutional Repository and can be accessed through the website. Presented to the Stony Brook University Graduate School in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Art; as recommended and accepted by the candidate's degree sponsor, the Dept. of Art. Includes bibliographical references (p. 61-71).

Thesis (M.M.)--University of North Texas, 2002. / A two-week event in four parts: invitation, installation, reception, and thank-you card. Installation for 2 hosts, 2 ushers, photographer, 4 posers, exerciser, sound persons, and blindfolded guests, with a mix of live and recorded sounds. Includes instructions for performance. Includes bibliographical references (p. 66-67).

Thesis (M.A. (Drama))--Rhodes University, 2006.

Thesis (M.A.)--West Virginia University, 2006. / Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains ix, 70 p. : ill. (some col.). Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 68-70).

This thesis explores various dilemmas in making theatre performances in the context of social disruption, trauma and death. Diverse discourses are drawn in to consider issues of body, subjectivity and spectatorship, refracted through the writer’s experiences of and discontent with making theatre. Written in a fractal-like structure, rather than a linear progression, this thesis unsettles discourses of truth, thus simultaneously intervening in debates about the epistemologies of the body and of theatre in context of the academy. Chapter 1: Methodological Anxieties Psychoanalytic theory provides a way in for investigating the dynamics of theatrical performance and its corporeal presence, by focusing on desire and its implication in the notions of loss and anxiety. The theories of the unconscious and the gaze have epistemological implications, shifting definitions of “presence” and “truth” in theatre performance and writing about theatre. This chapter tries to outline the rationale for, as well as to enact, an alternative methodology for writing, as an ethical response to loss that does not insist on consensus and truth. Chapter 2: (Refusing to) Look at Trauma This chapter examines the politics that strives to make suffering visible. Discursive binaries of public/private, dead/living, and invisible/visible underlie the politics of AIDS and sexuality. These discourses impact on the reception of Bill T. Jones's choreography, despite his use of modernist artistic processes in search of a bodily presence that aims to collapse the binary of representation (text) and its subject (being). The theory of the gaze shows this politics to be a phallocentric discourse; and narrative analysis traces the metanarrative that results in the commodification of oppositional identities, so that spectators participate in the politics as consumers. An ethical artistic response thus needs to shift its focus to the subjectivity of the spectator. Chapter 3: The Screen and the Viewer’s Blindness By appealing to a transcendent reality, and by constituting spectators as a participative community, ritual theatre claims to enact change. The “truth” of ritual rests not on rational knowledge, but on the performer’s competence to produce a shamanic presence, which director Brett Bailey embraces in his early work. Ritual presence operates by identification and belonging to a father/god as the source of meaning; but it represses the loss of this originary wholeness. Spectators of ritual theatre are drawn into an enactment of communion/community, the centre of which is, however, loss/emptiness. The claim of enacting change becomes problematic for its absence of truth. Bailey attempts to perform a hybrid, postcolonial aesthetics; but the problem rests in the larger context of performing the notion of “South Africa”, a communal identity hardened around the metanarrative of suffering, abjecting those that do not belong to the land of the father/god – foreigners that unsettle the meaning of South African identity. Conclusion: Bodies of Discontent The South African stage is circumscribed by political and economic discourses; the problematization of national identity is also a problematization of image-identification in the theatre. In search for a way to unsettle these interrogative discourses, two moments of performing foreignness are examined, one fictional, one theatrical. These moments enact a parallel to the feminine hysteric, who disturbs the phallocentric truth of the psychoanalyst through body performance. These moments of disturbing spectatorship are reflected in the works of performance artist Marina Abramovic. Her explorations into passive-aggression, shamanism and finally theatricality and the morality of spectatorship allow for an overview of the issues raised in this thesis regarding body, viewing, and subjecthood. Sensitivity to the body and its discontent on the part of the viewer becomes crucial to ethical performance.

This thesis explores an experimental music approach to writing autobiography. As a composition, Pilgrim Carnival took place as a travelling series of events. The central event was a sound installation for a blindfolded audience. This essay is a description of that series of events as well as a discussion of similar precedents in interdisciplinary art. Beginning with Luigi Russolo and Marcel Duchamp, aspects of autobiography are examined in both noise music and the concept of the ready-made artwork. Body Art of the 1970s, particularly the work of Marina Abramovic, is also tied into the idea of the ready-made artwork as an explicitly autobiographical example. The hybrid form of Pilgrim Carnival and the concept of ready-made autobiographical music create ongoing potential for new work.