Lecture: “Performance as an Alternative”

This talk explores one of the key phenomena in contemporary culture and art from the second half of the 20th century to the first quarter of the 21st.

Terms like performance art, performativity, and performance artist have long been institutionalized — yet still remain elusive for a wide audience.

Meanwhile, performance continues to provoke, challenge, and explore the personal, the intimate, and the political.

We’ll discuss key questions around the most human-centered genre of contemporary art:
Why does performance always take the side of the human?
How does it create an alternative language, reality, and relationship between artist, viewer, and institution?
What is the performance artist saying to the world today?
And how did Marina Abramović revolutionize the genre — and what is she planning next?