Posthuman Performance
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Gomoll, Lucian [1]
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[1] The Union Institute CA
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- Localización: Teknokultura: Revista de Cultura Digital y Movimientos Sociales, ISSN-e 1549-2230, Vol. 10, Nº. 2, 2013 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Cyborgs/Power + Cyborg/Art: Race, Gender, Class), pág. 4
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
This essay explores artistic practices that are informed by debates about human bodies, and to effectively encapsulate such works it proposes a new term: posthuman performance. The author begins by reviewing the differences and commonalities between the posthuman and the posthumanities. While scholars in the posthumanities are attempting to distinguish themselves from those writing about the posthuman, this essay attempts to knot together certain ideas from both discourses through the concept of posthuman performance. In particular, it suggests that artists re-embody and reclaim the figure of the posthuman through performance while enacting a historically-responsible, anti-racist politics that is informed by ideas in the posthumanities. A type of interventionism, posthuman performance provokes transformation outside the parameters of liberal humanism, using social relationships as part of the artistic medium. The article includes a reexamination of Orlan’s surgery interventions from the 1990s, and evaluates her work in relation to a spectrum of feminist praises and critiques as well as her engagements with non-Western arts and cultures. The author also provides analyses of contemporary artists from the last ten years, including Narcissister, La Pocha Nostra, Basia Irland, and Critical Art Ensemble, all of which illuminate the central concept that he proposes.
