Abstract
This paper looks into untapped potentials in performance art and spoken language. Both are means of questioning and telling, seriously and in fun. The spoken language is everywhere in our society while performance art is a special and more unusual form of communication. Can the spoken realm and performance art be explained through philosophy? What is the axiom of the spoken language and its relationship to movement and other techniques of performance art? Michel Foucauld’s concepts and explanations show links expressed between spoken language and performance art. The spoken language community uses words to go beyond simple communication, to think, to express emotion, and explore the world. The performance artist is, first and foremost, the medium, the performer and the author of their piece. Like the spoken expression, performance art is currently highly valued – for both, their impact may be pleasant, educational, or disturbing, and may carry important messages to spectators in a scopic way, beyond the ephemeral and the visual. I discuss those interacting linkages between those two forms of expression, important in our daily lives and in our desire “to build an epistemic community”.
Details
Presentation Type
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Theme
New Media, Technology and the Arts
KEYWORDS
Language, Performance, Movement, Philosophy, Emotions
