Performance Art: Spectacle of the Body

Dawes, Mark

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“…The piece “serves to expose that which is most personal to the individual; a restated persona viewed as in a dream both externally and subjectively at the same time. While watching your innermost physical structure being picked painfully clean, you feel a sense of shocked recognition similar to seeing an X-ray” [ 23 ]. This is potentially more familiar territory for the medical humanities scholar, and yet its connection with the history of aesthetic judgment, and the contemporary role of the artist in healthcare may be a new kind of constellation.…”

Section: Found Object/found Sound/found Performancementioning

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“Found Performance”: Towards a Musical Methodology for Exploring the Aesthetics of Care

Wood

2017

Healthcare

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Concepts of performance in fine art reflect key processes in music therapy. Music therapy enables practitioners to reframe patients as performers, producing new meanings around the clinical knowledge attached to medical histories and constructs. In this paper, music therapy practices are considered in the wider context of art history, with reference to allied theories from social research. Tracing a century in art that has revised the performativity of found objects (starting with Duchamp’s “Fountain”), and of found sound (crystallised by Cage’s 4′ 33) this paper proposes that music therapy might be a pioneer methodology of “found performance”. Examples from music therapy and contemporary socially engaged art practices are brought as potential links between artistic methodologies and medical humanities research, with specific reference to notions of Aesthetics of Care.

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Section: Found Object/found Sound/found Performancementioning

confidence: 99%

“Found Performance”: Towards a Musical Methodology for Exploring the Aesthetics of Care

Wood

2017

Healthcare

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Performance Art: Spectacle of the Body

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“Found Performance”: Towards a Musical Methodology for Exploring the Aesthetics of Care

“Found Performance”: Towards a Musical Methodology for Exploring the Aesthetics of Care

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