Performance Reading

‘Unmarked – the politics of performance’

Peggy Phelan

p146

‘Performance cannot be saved, recorded, documented, or otherwise participate in the circulation of representations of representations: once it does so, it becomes something other than performance.’

‘Performance’s being, like the ontology of subjectivity proposed here, becomes itself through disappearance’

‘It can be performed again, but this repetition itself marks it as “different”

p167

‘Performance art usually occurs in the suspension between the “real” physical matter of “the performing body” and the psychic experience of what it is to be em-bodied’