Precarious actions
Working conditions of contemporary art through performance
Abstract
This text focuses on the relationship between performance art, performativity and job insecurity in contemporary art, through the analysis of works of some artist that are considered to be relevant: Mierle Laderman Ukeles (Denver, Colorado, 1939), Andrea Fraser (Billings, Montana, 1965) and Santiago Sierra (Madrid, 1966). To this aim, contributions around these concepts from performance studies and social theory are considered, specifically the writings of Victor Turner, Judith Butler and Isabell Lorey.
The objectives are two: the first, to establish the connection between the notions of precariousness and performativity and, the second, to apply an analysis to the selected works.We have started from the hypothesis that the analysis of theseperformances, can be used to extrapolated some general conclusions about the precariousness to working conditions ofcontemporary art.
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