An Investigation of the Implications of Re-Performance for the Exhibition of Embodied Practice, with Reference to the Work of Amanda Coogan

Zaena Sheehan
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2019
BA

Subject: Performance
Country: Ireland
Period: 21st century

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This dissertation examines the role of re-performance in the exhibtion of embodied practice, with specific reference to the work of Amanda Coogan. Her practice can be described as live, endurance-oriented performance, dependent on the somatic encounter between artist and audience. These are artworks that unfold in real-time, whose realisation is experienced simultaneously by both parties.Performance has in recent years become an increasing presence within mainstream cultural institutions: leading to debate on how artworks that are essentially temporal, and therefore ephemeral, be postthumously exhibited in a museum setting. This dissertation examines the use of re-performance as a method of exhibiting live art in order to demonstrate the issues and possibilities raised by sustained, live-re-representation.

Irish Georgian Society

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An Investigation of the Implications of Re-Performance for the Exhibition of Embodied Practice, with Reference to the Work of Amanda Coogan