Type of Document	Dissertation
Author	Powell, Benjamin Daniel
Author's Email Address	powellben@gmail.com
URN	etd-07072008-091901
Title	Processes and/of Performance: Difference, Memory, and Experimentation.
Degree	Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)
Department	Communication Studies
Advisory Committee	Advisor Name Title Tracy Stephenson Shaffer Committee Chair John Protevi Committee Member Michael Bowman Committee Member Ruth Laurion Bowman Committee Member Victoria Johnson Dean's Representative
Keywords	Experimentation Performance Art Process Philosophy
Date of Defense	2008-04-01
Availability	unrestricted
Abstract This study enacts performance analyses by combining experimental and avant-garde performance practices of artists or art movements such as John Cage, Jerzy Grotowski, Dadaism, and Eugenio Barba with the differential philosophies of Jacques Derrida and Gilles Deleuze. By focusing on the ways that performance practice informs understandings of “the ghost” and différance in Derrida’s theories, and processes of production and experimentation in Deleuze’s, this study examines performance as a process of negotiating practice and theory that continues to produce rather than disappear. To reinforce the productive capacity of performance, this study looks at three different sites and the processes at work in their development as performance products: the development of the performance The Maidens, the photography exhibit The Perfect Medium: Photography and the Occult, and Marina Abramović’s performance art series Seven Easy Pieces. Within each of these sites, the processes of experimentation at work in their creation are highlighted to focus performance practice and theory on the multiple variables at work before, during, and after the “event” of performance.
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