Hi Folks, I just found this from Rod Dickinson in my inbox. I am not familiar with the McKenzie text but it made me reflect on the recent frustrated flurry surrounding Claire Bishop's Art Forum article about what she describes as the Digital Divide in the art world.
Her article is here http://artforum.com/inprint/id=31944 And responses here http://artforum.com/talkback/id=70724 It made me wonder about the upcoming cyberformance conference about whether there is also a perceived digital divide in the worlds of performance art. Thoughts? : ) Ruth > Dear Bristol Friends (and a few further afield) > > I'm leading a discussion on Jon McKenzie's brilliant text 'Perform or > Else: From Discipline to Performance' at Spike Island next Tuesday (11 > September, 6–8pm). > > Perform or Else is a text for our times; McKenzie constructs a general > theory of performance, linking together cultural performance, > organisational performance and technological performance drawing on > thinkers as diverse as Goffman and Marcuse and arguing that > performance is one of our primary contemporary ontological conditions. > He maps the way that performance has also become a tool for measuring > and assessing our behaviour in all aspects of life and as direct > consequence of the formation of our information societies. It's > compelling argument and I hope you'll come and join me to discuss it. > > Full info here > http://www.spikeisland.org.uk/events/activities/extra-curricular-september-2012/ > > > > email [email protected] if you'd like to come. > > > > > > Rod Dickinson > > > > > _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
