scholarly journals The Theatricality of the Punctum: Re-Viewing Camera Lucida

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 266 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harry Robert Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Performance Practice ◽  
Roland Barthes ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Camera Lucida ◽  
Critical Thought ◽  
Photo Essay ◽  
A Performance

I first encountered Roland Barthes�s Camera Lucida�(1980) in 2012 when I was developing a performance on falling and photography. Since then I have re-encountered Barthes�s book annually as part of my practice-as-research PhD project on the relationships between performance and photography. This research project seeks to make performance work in response to Barthes�s book � to practice with Barthes in an exploration of theatricality, materiality and affect. This photo-essay weaves critical discourse with performance documentation to explore my relationship to Barthes�s book. Responding to Michael Fried�s claim that Barthes�s Camera Lucida is an exercise in �antitheatrical critical thought� (Fried 2008, 98) the essay seeks to re-view debates on theatricality and anti-theatricality in and around Camera Lucida. Specifically, by exploring Barthes�s conceptualisation of the pose I discuss how performance practice might re-theatricalise the punctum and challenge a supposed antitheatricalism in Barthes�s text. Additionally, I argue for Barthes�s book as an example of philosophy as performance and for my own work as an instance of performance philosophy.

NOISY FIELD EXPOSURES, or what comes before attunement

2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 647-664
Author(s):  
Vickie Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Information Theory ◽  
Roland Barthes ◽  
Methodological Principle ◽  
Small Country ◽  
Camera Lucida ◽  
Michel Serres ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Photo Essay ◽  
Regional Australia ◽  
Country Town

Before attunement comes exposure, the necessary fact of being a body. This photo essay is a play on two meanings of the word exposure: corporeal exposure and photographic exposure. I offer the latter in order to stay with moments of the former, exposing multiple scenes of misattunement from fieldwork in a small country town in regional Australia. Picking up the classic distinction in information theory between signal and noise, this piece pauses at the moment of indeterminacy before an event might be affirmed as valuable signal or discarded as unwanted static, weaving stories and images from the field with excerpts from Michel Serres’ The Parasite, Roland Barthes’ Camera Lucida and Paul Harrison’s essay on Corporeal Remains. Ultimately, this essay’s suggestion is that ‘attunement’ is not primarily about attunement. Instead, as a methodological principle, I offer that attunement initially – and sufficiently – gestures towards an attempt, a vulnerability and a commitment to the event of exposure.

scholarly journals Scottish Press Coverage of UK General Elections after Devolution: the 2001 and 2005 Campaigns

2009 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marina Dekavalla
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Press Coverage ◽  
Election Campaign ◽  
Political Debate ◽  
Research Project ◽  
General Elections ◽  
Selection Of

This paper presents preliminary findings from a wider study into the form that political debate takes in Scottish and English/UK newspapers’ reporting of the 2001 and the 2005 UK Elections. The research project aims to contribute to the discussion regarding the role played by the Scottish press in political deliberation after devolution and compares its contribution to the electoral debate with that of newspapers bought in England. This paper explores the results of a content analysis of articles from daily Scottish and UK newspapers during the four weeks of each election campaign period. This reveals that, despite some differences, the overall picture of the coverage of major election issues is consistent. A selection of the coverage of taxation, the most mentioned reserved issue in the 2001 campaign, is subsequently analysed using critical discourse analysis, and the results suggest more distinction between the two sets of newspapers.

scholarly journals Minding the Gap – of Indifference: Approaching ‘Performance Philosophy’ with Salomo Friedlaender (1871-1946)

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 65 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alice Lagaay
Keyword(s):  
Performance Practice ◽  
Gestalt Therapy ◽  
Short Text ◽  
Magnum Opus ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Salomo Friedlaender ◽  
A Performance

The concept of "Creative Indifference" put forward by Salomo Friedlaender in his 1918 magnum opus, Schöpferische Indifferenz, provides much food for thought from a Performance Philosophy perspective. Friedlaender's work, which has been largely overlooked by academic philosophers until now, was in fact hugely influential in expressionist Dada circles at the time of its publication. It also contributed to shaping Gestalt Therapy theories and practice, thereby relating to a number of bodywork movements that continue to inform performance practice and Performance Philosophy alike. In this short text, Alice Lagaay begins to explore the manner in which Friedlaender/Mynona can be seen as a Performance Philosopher “avant la lettre”, and how the notion of "Creative Indifference” might be fruitful in the ongoing "Mind-the-Gap”- debate relating to the relation between “Performance" and "Philosophy".

Performance practices and conflict resolution: Jo Berry and Patrick Magee’s Facing the Enemy

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Verity Combe
Keyword(s):  
Conflict Resolution ◽  
Performance Practice ◽  
The Other ◽  
Performance Theory ◽  
Performance Practices ◽  
Raising Awareness ◽  
Core Identity ◽  
Grand Hotel ◽  
A Performance

This chapter explores performance as a tool to demonstrate and negotiate contemporary conflict resolution through analysis of Facing The Enemy, the performance practice of Jo Berry and Patrick Magee. Berry is daughter of Sir Anthony Berry, Conservative MP killed in the attack on the Grand Hotel in Brighton and Magee is the former IRA member responsible for the attack. Performance theory offers a framework to assess the theatrical “performativity” of the work, raising awareness of the issues surrounding the Troubes in Britain. Performance allows them to face a personal dimension of conflict resolution while using it as a tool to explore this paradigm. I argue for the authority of a performance practice whereby the performers retain their core identity throughout, while negotiating enough to accommodate the other.

scholarly journals Yield Applied to Destination Management: An Inefficient Analogy?

2007 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 441-452 ◽  
Author(s):  
Noel Scott ◽  
Noreen Breakey
Keyword(s):  
Performance Indicator ◽  
Yield Management ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Tourism Destinations ◽  
A Performance

This paper reports on a research project that examines the use of yield as a performance indicator for destination management. It reviews the history, definitions and use of yield and yield management in hospitality and transport businesses and then examines how these ideas have been transferred to the literature of tourism destinations. A series of recommendations on usage of the term ‘yield’ are provided.

‘Now I come to you, ladies, after so much time’: Cleopatra, Maria d'Aragona and an intermedio for the Duchess of Alba

2010 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-63
Author(s):  
NINA TREADWELL
Keyword(s):  
Performance Practice ◽  
Role Model ◽  
Positive Role ◽  
Relative Autonomy ◽  
Positive Role Model ◽  
Historical Figure ◽  
Performance Context ◽  
A Performance

AbstractDuring March 1588, Maria d'Aragona, the Marchesa of Vasto, sponsored a set of four intermedi at her palazzo in Chiaia, Naples. The centrepiece of the entertainment was the intermedio entitled ‘Queen Cleopatra on her Ship’. This article explores d'Aragona's role as sponsor of the entertainment, particularly in relation to her interest in the historical figure of Cleopatra. Drawing on sources that informed perceptions of the Egyptian queen during the early- to mid-Cinquecento, it will be shown that within a performance context governed by a strong-willed female patron, the often negatively depicted Cleopatra could be cast as a positive role model, particularly for d'Aragona-related noblewomen who themselves had experienced strong female mentorship and enjoyed the relative autonomy of widowhood. D'Aragona's decision to cast the Neapolitan virtuosa Eufemia Jozola as Cleopatra reinforced the female-orientated nature of the intermedio, and sheds new light on mid-Cinquecento Neapolitan performance practice.

Hacking Choreography: Dance and Live Coding

2014 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kate Sicchio
Keyword(s):  
Programming Languages ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Performance Practice ◽  
Computer Music ◽  
Computer Programming ◽  
Live Performance ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Transdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Performance Events ◽  
The Creation

This article explores the intersection of live coding and choreography, discussing the “practice as research” project Hacking Choreography. It examines the use of computer programming languages within dance scores, the creation of scores in real time, and the transparency of these scores to the audience during performance. Four pieces created by the author are discussed in terms of these elements and compared to live-coding practices for computer music. Through this, not only does live coding emerge as a performance practice related to sound or visuals, but it also continues its trajectory as a transdisciplinary approach to live performance events.

Making the Archive and Archiving the Making: insights and outcomes from a major research project

2006 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 143-147 ◽  
Author(s):  
SIMON WATERS
Keyword(s):  
Real Time ◽  
Performance Practice ◽  
Electroacoustic Music ◽  
The Other ◽  
Technical Level ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Major Research ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Aesthetic Judgement ◽  
And Performance

This paper seeks to address some of the problems faced by those archiving an area of musical practice – electroacoustic music and the sonic arts – which is, by definition, involved with technologies which change and develop, and which unsurprisingly is itself in a state of flux and transformation. Drawing on the experience gained from two linked research projects – one looking at the development of the practice, the other seeking to archive it – it is suggested that the two apparently disparate areas of activity can be fruitfully regarded as overlapping in many respects. Both activities involve selection and aesthetic judgement, both strive for an elusive ‘completeness’ while acknowledging its impossibility, and at a technical level the strategies now emerging for searching and collating information from ‘separate’ archives look increasingly like the strategies used in some areas of ‘real-time’ composition and performance practice. It is argued that archivists of material from such a disparate and rapidly developing practice, rather than aiming for spurious ‘coverage’ of the field, should acknowledge and celebrate their difference from each other, while conforming to simple principles which will allow their archived content to be searched and collated dynamically by individual users, each querying and configuring the material optimally for their own purposes.

scholarly journals Discourse as the object of philosophical and linguistics studies

2018 ◽  
Vol 69 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-16
Author(s):  
Miroslav Marcelli
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Michel Foucault ◽  
Roland Barthes ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Theoretical Construct ◽  
The Sixties ◽  
And Linguistics

Abstract The article deals with the ways philosophers and linguists reflect the topic of discourse. In the first part, the conception of the discourse as the theoretical construct is characterized. The next parts are devoted to discourse analyses as they were developed by linguists, semioticians and philosophers in the sixties and seventies. The works of Emil Benveniste, Roland Barthes and Michel Foucault are put in the foreground. As for Foucault’s archeological method, this attempt to find rules of the autonomous discourse led to an impasse. The last part of the article draws the research line of the critical discourse analysis and shows its philosophical inspirations.

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