A presente pesquisa visa observar o modo de operar da arte contemporânea fundada no caminhar e investigar o quanto ela se faz acessível ao espectador, o quanto ela é inclusiva, relacional e horizontal. Contrariamente a um entendimento de que a arte contemporânea é de difícil acesso, nosso objetivo é relacionar a dissolução de certos estatutos da cena contemporânea com a aproximação do espectador de sua estrutura de funcionamento, a ponto de ele se tornar mais indispensável para sua realização do que o próprio artista. No primeiro capítulo, apresento esse contexto de dissolução (como linhas invisíveis do mapa), inicialmente no campo do teatro e, posteriormente, na configuração das performances, campo no qual as noções de cena, encenação e espectador já não operam. No segundo capítulo apresento o ato de caminhar em relação ao pensar e ao criar; uma prática estética e política a ser desdobrada nos três capítulos seguintes. Desse modo, do segundo ao quinto capítulo observo modalidades do caminhar: passeios, derivas, fugas, perseguições e travessias realizadas por artistas de diversas procedências (do teatro à land art, da dança à arte conceitual, da performance ao real) e, em alguns casos, por espectadores ou passantes. Todas essas ações, sobretudo as performances, resultam em outras materialidades (fotografias, vídeos, desenhos e narrativas) que são igualmente compartilhadas com espectadores ausentes do ato de sua execução. No último capítulo, trato desses rastros ou vestígios - bem como do acesso aos programas dessas ações - como um importante material para os espectadores, que conhecendo os \"modos de fazer\" dessas modalidades artísticas, compreendem seus \"modos de usar\". Assim, caminhar como prática estética configura-se como um ato de transgressão do sistema vigente, uma vez que se trata não apenas de uma ação, mas de uma atitude ao alcance de toda e qualquer pessoa. Ao ocupar o contexto urbano por sua dimensão mais baixa, o chão, o sujeito que caminha experimenta outras formas de sociabilidade e outras configurações para o real, inventando micro-poéticas do devir. / This research aims to observe the way contemporary art founded on walking works and to investigate how much it is accessible to the public, how much it is inclusive, relational and horizontal. Contrary to an understanding that contemporary art is difficult to access, our goal is to relate the dissolution of certain contemporary scenes statutes with the spectator\'s approach of its functional structure, to the point that he becomes more indispensable for its accomplishment than the artist himself. In the first chapter, I present this context of dissolution (as invisible lines of the map) initially in the theater field and, posteriorly, in the configuration of the performances, a field in which the notions of scene, staging and spectator no longer operate. In the second chapter, I present the act of walking in relation to thinking and creating; an aesthetic and political practice to be deployed in the three following chapters. Thus, from the second to the fifth chapters, I observe walking modalities: strolls, drifts, escapes, persecutions and crossings by artists of different origins (from theater to land art, from dance to conceptual art, from performance to real) and, in some cases, by spectators or bystanders. All these actions, particularly the performances, result in other materialities (photographs, videos, drawings and narratives) which are equally shared with spectators absent from the act of its realization. In the last chapter, I deal with these traces or vestiges - as well as the access to the programs of these actions - as an important material for the spectators, who getting to know the \"ways of doing\" of these artistic modalities, understand their \"ways of using\". Therefore, walking as an aesthetic practice configures itself as an act of transgression of the current system, since it is not only an action, but an attitude within the reach of any person. By occupying the urban context in its lower dimension, the ground, the subject who walks experiences other forms of sociability and other settings for the real, inventing micro-poetics of devenir.

A pesquisa aqui desenvolvida tem como foco de trabalho a improvisação no contexto do ator performativo, abrangendo sua trajetória desde a criação até a recepção. A fim de explorar esse universo, foi desenhado um percurso baseado na pessoalidade de quem escreve: uma atriz que vive a realidade de ser também uma criadora, e se confronta com questões de ordem prática nessa relação. Portanto, essa pesquisa percorre um caminho em espiral, onde a prática estimula a teorização, e vice-versa. O pensamento desenvolvido discorre sobre o ator performativo, pois falamos de criação no contexto da performatividade, principalmente sob o ponto de vista de Josette Féral. As fontes utilizadas a fim de contextualizar a pesquisa são sempre voltadas à figura do ator, e pensadas através dele. Portanto, todo o material coletado foi horizontalizado nesse sentido, para que fosse possível fazer um recorte diante de tantos conceitos que tentam esmiuçar a realidade do teatro contemporâneo e seus procedimentos criativos. O processo de criação do ator se dá, aqui, pelo viés da recepção. Ao pensar no ator performativo, vislumbra-se então a possibilidade de, de forma subjetiva, introjetar as duas figuras criador e receptor - no mesmo ser, criando assim um ator que contém dentro de si a figura do receptor, que o impele a criar e a refletir sobre sua criação simultaneamente. Esse estado de criação questiona o ator segundo a certa vivacidade necessária ao teatro e uma conscientização diante do seu trabalho e dos seus percursos criativos. Como base da improvisação enquanto ferramenta de criação nesse contexto, a teoria utilizada como parâmetro é a dos viewpoints, desenvolvida por Anne Bogart e Tina Landau, que tem conexão imediata com a pesquisa, já que parte de princípios concretos de variação de determinada estrutura cênica, visando à organicidade dos movimentos e a concentração do criador em algo palpável, físico e dinâmico. Ao trabalho teórico, se mistura uma pesquisa minuciosa em cima dos cadernos de anotações de quatro anos de ensaios com um núcleo estável da Cia. de Teatro em Quadrinhos, dirigida por Beth Lopes, fonte primária das indagações aqui propostas. Essas anotações aparecem inseridas no trabalho como fontes ou fins de muitas questões, e conectam novamente a teoria a uma prática, já que se fala em criação do ator o tempo todo. No sentido de exemplificar mais uma vez essa relação prático-teórica, concluise com uma reflexão acerca da montagem de um espetáculo desse período, (a)tentados (originalmente Attempts on her life, de Martin Crimp), destacando suas congruências com as teorias e questionamentos desenvolvidos ao longo de toda a pesquisa. / The research that is developed here is focused on improvisation in the context of the performative actor, covering its history from creation to reception. In order to explore this universe, it designed a course based on the personality of this writer: an actress who lives the reality of being also a creator, and is confronted with the practical issues in this relationship. Therefore, this research goes a spiral path, where the practice encourages theorizing, and also the reverse. The thought developed discusses the \"performative actor\", because we speak of creation in the context of performativity, particularly from the perspective of Josette Feral. The sources, used in order to contextualize the study, are always focused on the figure of the actor, and they are thought through that figure. Therefore, all the collected material has been horizontalized accordingly to this, so we could make an indentation of so many concepts that attempt to scrutinize the reality of contemporary theater and its creative procedures. The creative process of the actor is given, here, through the reception. When thinking about the performative actor, it is foreseeable then the possibility of, in a subjective way, to introjetct the two figures - the creator and receiver in a the same being, thus creating an actor that contains within itself the figure of the receiver, which drives him to create and to reflect on their creation simultaneously. This \"state\" of creation asks to the actor about certain necessary \"liveliness\" to the theater and also about an awareness of its work and its creative paths. Improvisation is a tool for creating this context, and the theory used is the viewpoints one, developed by Anne Bogart and Tina Landau, who have immediate connection with this research, as soon they part of concrete principles of variation of certain scenic structure, aiming at an organic movement and a concentration of the creator into something tangible, physical and dynamic. In theoretical work, it is blended a detailed research over some notebooks describing four years of rehearsals with a stable core of artists, the Cia. de Teatro em Quadrinhos, directed by Beth Lopes, primary source of the questions proposed here. These notes are included in the work as sources or purposes of many issues, and they connect again the theory to practice, since they come up to creation of the actor all the time. In order to illustrate once again that practical-theoretical relation, this research concludes with a discussion about the creation of a play in that period, (a)tentados (originally Attempts on her Life, by Martin Crimp), highlighting its consistencies with the theories and questions developed throughout the research.

This dissertation offers an aesthetic and historical overview of crunk, a hip- hop subgenre that took form in Atlanta, Georgia during the late 1990s. Get Crunk! is an ethnography that draws heavily on methodologies from African-American studies, musicological analysis, and performance studies in order to discuss crunk as a performed response to the policing of black youth in public space in the 1990s. Crunk is a subgenre of hip-hop that emanated from party circuits in the American southeast during the 1990s, characterized by the prevalence of repeating chanted phrases, harmonically sparse beats, and moderate tempi. The music is often accompanied by images that convey psychic pain, i.e. contortions of the body and face, and a moshing dance style in which participants thrash against one another in spontaneously formed epicenters while chanting along with the music. Crunk’s ascension to prominence coincided with a moment in Atlanta’s history during which inhabitants worked diligently to redefine Atlanta for various political purposes. Some hoped to recast the city as a cosmopolitan tourist destination for the approaching new millennium, while others sought to recreate the city as a beacon of Southern gentility, an articulation of the city’s mythologized pre-Civil War existence; both of these positions impacted Atlanta’s growing hip-hop community, which had the twins goals of drawing in black youth tourism and creating and marketing an easily identifiable Southern style of hip-hop for mainstream consumption; the result was crunk. This dissertation investigates the formation and function of crunk methods of composition, performance, and listening in Southern recreational spaces, the ways in which artists and audiences negotiate identities based on notions of race, gender, and region through crunk, and various manifestations of aesthetic evaluation and moral panic surrounding crunk. The argument here is that the dynamic rituals of listening and emergent performance among crunk audiences constitute a kind of catharsis and social commentary for its primarily black youth listenership; one that lies beyond the scope of lyrical analysis and, accordingly requires analysis that incorporates a conceptualization of listening as an embodied, participatory experience expressed through gesture. The first chapter begins with a historical overview of race, segregation, and the allocation of public space in Atlanta, Georgia in order to establish the social topography upon which Atlanta hip-hop was built; it ends with a social and historical overview of yeeking, Atlanta’s first distinct hip-hop party dance style and marked precursor to crunk. The second chapter delves into essentialist constructions of Southern identity and hip-hop authenticity, from which Atlanta hip- hoppers constructed novel expressions of Southern hip-hop identity through a process akin to Dick Hebdige’s theory of bricolage. Chapter three discusses the history and sociopolitical significance of Freaknik, a large Atlanta spring break event that catered specifically to students of Historically Black Colleges and Universities. At its peak, Freaknik became the focus of a moral panic, which led to increased policing of black youth in public space and ultimately the dismantling of the event due in large part to harassment; it is this moment in Atlanta’s history which gives context to the performative abandon of crunk. The fourth chapter discusses the aesthetics of crunk music and imagery, focusing on the subgenre’s embrace of Southern gangsta archetypes, timbral dissonance in compositional methodology, and crunk’s corporeal and vocal catharses illustrated by performative violent embodiment (i.e. moshing) and the centrality of screams and chants. The fifth chapter focuses on gender performativity in Southern hip-hop party spaces. The chapter begins with a discussion of gender normativity in yeeking and how insincere non-normative performances of gender are incorporated as a means of reinforcing the gender normativity; this is framed by analyses of a yeek dance move called “the sissy” and the trap era dance, the nae nae. As is argued in the latter half of this chapter, women performers in crunk engaged in the same kind of bricolage outlined in chapter two in order to transform traditionally male-centric crunk music into something specifically and performatively woman centered. Ultimately, these discussions of gender indicate a kind of performative fluidity that echoes the kind of performance-based subversion that this dissertation argues crunk represented for black youth laying claim to public space in the years following the decline of Freaknik. The conclusion holds that, while the era of the crunk subgenre has passed, many of the underlying performative political subtexts persisted in subsequent subgenres of Southern hip-hop (e.g. snap, trap, etc.), which lays the foundation for discourse on methodologies of performative resistance in other hip-hop formats.

Este trabalho tem como finalidade analisar o processo de apropriação e conservação da biodiversidade a partir da perspectiva do povo indígena Zenú da Colômbia e dos diferentes sujeitos sociais, tais como organizações sociais de caráter local e ONGs, que trabalham nesse território, a partir da introdução de sementes transgênicas de milho em regiões vizinhas desde 2007. Este processo tem como referência a pesquisa etnográfica para a compreensão das diferentes iniciativas sociais e políticas impulsionadas pelo povo indígena em seu propósito de defender a biodiversidade do seu resguardo (reserva) e a constituição de uma identidade étnico territorial dentro deste grupo indígena. Assim, a biodiversidade constitui-se em um elemento fundamental na configuração da identidade étnico-territorial do povo Zenú, sustentadas, complementariamente, por uma elaboração discursiva de caráter performativo. Esse processo desemboca, por sua vez, em uma de re-indigenização do território que, além de reivindicar referentes espaciais e elementos culturais de vital importância para este grupo social, como é o caso do milho, estabelece os limites de uma nova fronteira simbólica em relação aos estados nacionais, geradora de sentimentos de pertencimento, mobilizações e posições políticas que confrontam as problemáticas que ameaçam seu território. Analisamos, da mesma forma, a construção de uma ecopolítica transnacional que supõe a conformação de laços, alianças e redes entre sujeitos sociais locais e transnacionais. Dentro desse conjunto de relações, centramo-nos no vínculo estabelecido entre a ONG Swissaid e o povo indígena Zenú, nos interessando, principalmente, na articulação das demandas culturais e territoriais desse grupo tradicional com as dos outros que circulam na rede de biodiversidade da América Latina, sob a perspectiva da campanha Sementes de identidade. Destacamos ainda a relação que as famílias indígenas estabelecem com o território, especialmente com a cultura do milho, adentrando-nos nas práticas comunitárias que sustentam a biodiversidade e buscam a reprodução social desse povo tradicional. / This research seeks to analyze the process of appropriation and conservation of the biodiversity from the perspective of the Zenu Indian people of Colombia and also of the different social subjects, such as local organizations and NGOs, that work in this territory, since the introduction of transgenic seeds of maize in neighboring regions from 2007. Taking, therefore, the ethnographic investigation as a reference to the comprehension of the different social initiatives and policies created by this Indian people in its purpose of defending the biodiversity of its territory and the constitution of an ethnic territorial identity inside this Indian group. The biodiversity constitutes, thus, a fundamental element in the configuration of an ethnic territorial identity of the Zenu people, sustained, in addition, by a discursive production with a performative character. This process ends, in turn, in a revitalization of an Indian condition of its population, and consequently, of its territory. A revitalization that, besides claiming spatial modals and cultural elements of vital importance for this social group, such as the case of the maize, establishes the limits of a new symbolic border in relation to the national States, that generates feelings of belonging, mobilizations and political positions that confront the problems that threat its territory. Thus, we analyze the construction of a transnational ecopolitic that supposes the conformation of bonds, alliances and connections between local and transnational social subjects. Within this set of relations, we focus on the link established between the NGO Swissaid and the Zenu people, being interested, mainly, in the joint of the cultural and territorial demands of this traditional group with that of other social subjects that circulate in the biodiversitys network of Latin America, under the perspective of the campaign Seeds of Identity. We emphasize also the relation that the Indian Zenu families establish with the territory, specially with the culture of the maize, making an approximation to the community practices that sustain the biodiversity and look to continue the social reproduction of this traditional people.

A presente pesquisa visa observar o modo de operar da arte contemporânea fundada no caminhar e investigar o quanto ela se faz acessível ao espectador, o quanto ela é inclusiva, relacional e horizontal. Contrariamente a um entendimento de que a arte contemporânea é de difícil acesso, nosso objetivo é relacionar a dissolução de certos estatutos da cena contemporânea com a aproximação do espectador de sua estrutura de funcionamento, a ponto de ele se tornar mais indispensável para sua realização do que o próprio artista. No primeiro capítulo, apresento esse contexto de dissolução (como linhas invisíveis do mapa), inicialmente no campo do teatro e, posteriormente, na configuração das performances, campo no qual as noções de cena, encenação e espectador já não operam. No segundo capítulo apresento o ato de caminhar em relação ao pensar e ao criar; uma prática estética e política a ser desdobrada nos três capítulos seguintes. Desse modo, do segundo ao quinto capítulo observo modalidades do caminhar: passeios, derivas, fugas, perseguições e travessias realizadas por artistas de diversas procedências (do teatro à land art, da dança à arte conceitual, da performance ao real) e, em alguns casos, por espectadores ou passantes. Todas essas ações, sobretudo as performances, resultam em outras materialidades (fotografias, vídeos, desenhos e narrativas) que são igualmente compartilhadas com espectadores ausentes do ato de sua execução. No último capítulo, trato desses rastros ou vestígios - bem como do acesso aos programas dessas ações - como um importante material para os espectadores, que conhecendo os \"modos de fazer\" dessas modalidades artísticas, compreendem seus \"modos de usar\". Assim, caminhar como prática estética configura-se como um ato de transgressão do sistema vigente, uma vez que se trata não apenas de uma ação, mas de uma atitude ao alcance de toda e qualquer pessoa. Ao ocupar o contexto urbano por sua dimensão mais baixa, o chão, o sujeito que caminha experimenta outras formas de sociabilidade e outras configurações para o real, inventando micro-poéticas do devir. / This research aims to observe the way contemporary art founded on walking works and to investigate how much it is accessible to the public, how much it is inclusive, relational and horizontal. Contrary to an understanding that contemporary art is difficult to access, our goal is to relate the dissolution of certain contemporary scenes statutes with the spectator\'s approach of its functional structure, to the point that he becomes more indispensable for its accomplishment than the artist himself. In the first chapter, I present this context of dissolution (as invisible lines of the map) initially in the theater field and, posteriorly, in the configuration of the performances, a field in which the notions of scene, staging and spectator no longer operate. In the second chapter, I present the act of walking in relation to thinking and creating; an aesthetic and political practice to be deployed in the three following chapters. Thus, from the second to the fifth chapters, I observe walking modalities: strolls, drifts, escapes, persecutions and crossings by artists of different origins (from theater to land art, from dance to conceptual art, from performance to real) and, in some cases, by spectators or bystanders. All these actions, particularly the performances, result in other materialities (photographs, videos, drawings and narratives) which are equally shared with spectators absent from the act of its realization. In the last chapter, I deal with these traces or vestiges - as well as the access to the programs of these actions - as an important material for the spectators, who getting to know the \"ways of doing\" of these artistic modalities, understand their \"ways of using\". Therefore, walking as an aesthetic practice configures itself as an act of transgression of the current system, since it is not only an action, but an attitude within the reach of any person. By occupying the urban context in its lower dimension, the ground, the subject who walks experiences other forms of sociability and other settings for the real, inventing micro-poetics of devenir.

Ng, Chak Kwan. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2009. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 132-136). / Abstract also in Chinese. / INTRODUCTION / The Necessity of Being Performative: / the Cases of William Wordsworth and T. S. Eliot --- p.1 / Chapter CHAPTER ONE --- "Context, Literary Events and the Institution of Literature" --- p.12 / Chapter CHAPTER TWO --- Individualism: the Invention of Romantic Subjectivity in William Wordsworth --- p.50 / Chapter CHAPTER THREE --- Subjectivity in Crisis: the Invention of Modern Subjectivity in T. S. Eliot --- p.90 / "Conclusion ""Change More Than Language"": The Acts of Poetry" --- p.127 / WORKS CITED AND BIBLIOGRAPHY --- p.132

A pesquisa aqui desenvolvida tem como foco de trabalho a improvisação no contexto do ator performativo, abrangendo sua trajetória desde a criação até a recepção. A fim de explorar esse universo, foi desenhado um percurso baseado na pessoalidade de quem escreve: uma atriz que vive a realidade de ser também uma criadora, e se confronta com questões de ordem prática nessa relação. Portanto, essa pesquisa percorre um caminho em espiral, onde a prática estimula a teorização, e vice-versa. O pensamento desenvolvido discorre sobre o ator performativo, pois falamos de criação no contexto da performatividade, principalmente sob o ponto de vista de Josette Féral. As fontes utilizadas a fim de contextualizar a pesquisa são sempre voltadas à figura do ator, e pensadas através dele. Portanto, todo o material coletado foi horizontalizado nesse sentido, para que fosse possível fazer um recorte diante de tantos conceitos que tentam esmiuçar a realidade do teatro contemporâneo e seus procedimentos criativos. O processo de criação do ator se dá, aqui, pelo viés da recepção. Ao pensar no ator performativo, vislumbra-se então a possibilidade de, de forma subjetiva, introjetar as duas figuras criador e receptor - no mesmo ser, criando assim um ator que contém dentro de si a figura do receptor, que o impele a criar e a refletir sobre sua criação simultaneamente. Esse estado de criação questiona o ator segundo a certa vivacidade necessária ao teatro e uma conscientização diante do seu trabalho e dos seus percursos criativos. Como base da improvisação enquanto ferramenta de criação nesse contexto, a teoria utilizada como parâmetro é a dos viewpoints, desenvolvida por Anne Bogart e Tina Landau, que tem conexão imediata com a pesquisa, já que parte de princípios concretos de variação de determinada estrutura cênica, visando à organicidade dos movimentos e a concentração do criador em algo palpável, físico e dinâmico. Ao trabalho teórico, se mistura uma pesquisa minuciosa em cima dos cadernos de anotações de quatro anos de ensaios com um núcleo estável da Cia. de Teatro em Quadrinhos, dirigida por Beth Lopes, fonte primária das indagações aqui propostas. Essas anotações aparecem inseridas no trabalho como fontes ou fins de muitas questões, e conectam novamente a teoria a uma prática, já que se fala em criação do ator o tempo todo. No sentido de exemplificar mais uma vez essa relação prático-teórica, concluise com uma reflexão acerca da montagem de um espetáculo desse período, (a)tentados (originalmente Attempts on her life, de Martin Crimp), destacando suas congruências com as teorias e questionamentos desenvolvidos ao longo de toda a pesquisa. / The research that is developed here is focused on improvisation in the context of the performative actor, covering its history from creation to reception. In order to explore this universe, it designed a course based on the personality of this writer: an actress who lives the reality of being also a creator, and is confronted with the practical issues in this relationship. Therefore, this research goes a spiral path, where the practice encourages theorizing, and also the reverse. The thought developed discusses the \"performative actor\", because we speak of creation in the context of performativity, particularly from the perspective of Josette Feral. The sources, used in order to contextualize the study, are always focused on the figure of the actor, and they are thought through that figure. Therefore, all the collected material has been horizontalized accordingly to this, so we could make an indentation of so many concepts that attempt to scrutinize the reality of contemporary theater and its creative procedures. The creative process of the actor is given, here, through the reception. When thinking about the performative actor, it is foreseeable then the possibility of, in a subjective way, to introjetct the two figures - the creator and receiver in a the same being, thus creating an actor that contains within itself the figure of the receiver, which drives him to create and to reflect on their creation simultaneously. This \"state\" of creation asks to the actor about certain necessary \"liveliness\" to the theater and also about an awareness of its work and its creative paths. Improvisation is a tool for creating this context, and the theory used is the viewpoints one, developed by Anne Bogart and Tina Landau, who have immediate connection with this research, as soon they part of concrete principles of variation of certain scenic structure, aiming at an organic movement and a concentration of the creator into something tangible, physical and dynamic. In theoretical work, it is blended a detailed research over some notebooks describing four years of rehearsals with a stable core of artists, the Cia. de Teatro em Quadrinhos, directed by Beth Lopes, primary source of the questions proposed here. These notes are included in the work as sources or purposes of many issues, and they connect again the theory to practice, since they come up to creation of the actor all the time. In order to illustrate once again that practical-theoretical relation, this research concludes with a discussion about the creation of a play in that period, (a)tentados (originally Attempts on her Life, by Martin Crimp), highlighting its consistencies with the theories and questions developed throughout the research.

This dissertation is a performative interrogation of the disagreement and (dis)interest, communication issues, surrounding motherhood in contemporary U.S. culture. Textual analysis of Mary Kelly's Post-Partum Document (PPD) plays a key role in my inquiry. I juxtapose documentation from my lived experiences and academic projects with Kelly's work to build upon the themes and ideas introduced throughout PPD. This project is guided by the concepts love and (im)possibility, and I will argue that, together, they are central to understanding mothering/caregiving as a site of communication inquiry. Love and (im)possibility are inherent to both mothering and communication, but they also are essential for creating the conditions for new variations, ways of doing, and being with and for one another.

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Through the sculptural object, this thesis, in|form: The per formative object, explores the relationships between body and object, viewer and artist, performance and the per formative. By exploring the performativity of an object (and questioning how an object performs in relation to the body), the documented performances activate an inter-relational act between artist and object (I perform the object, the object performs me simultaneously). The work that unfolds from this investigation considers the placement of the viewer’s body in relation to the artist’s. A dialogue is formed between the three bodies: object, artist and viewer, creating a sense of embodiment within the work through this relationship. in|form explores this embodiment through the role of video documentation. The performances are constructed to be viewed solely through the documentation, which creates a discussion between the ‘live’ moment and the documented event, and how the viewer then relates to this. The performances take place as solo acts, but are constructed with the viewer in mind. As the viewer watches the documented performance of the action between artist and object in space, the relational nature of the work creates a second performance which embodies the viewer. This sole action, recorded and then viewed, considers the relational value of the body, specifically engaging with the abstraction of bodily formlessness within the object to reveal a bodily nature. Using the object to trace the movement of the body creates a language that communicates to, and about, both viewer and artist: through the awareness of passing time, through the large scale projection of the documentation, through the bodily nature of the object, and through the performativity of the object’s responsive nature to the artist’s body as the pair navigate through space. in|form explores how the absence of the body (in a literal sense) considers the body as an object bound by time, at once physical yet transient. By tracing the motion of the body through object, the viewer experiences the body through sensibility. Ultimately, the function of the body negotiating as a time-bound object is imitated through the performativity of the object with artist, and the elusiveness of this action emphasized by its documentation.