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SM6305 Media art theory amp practice
Critical amp Creative Intervention a ldquoPerformativerdquo approach
Linda Lai
March 27 2008
language as enunciation
Two kinds of theory of language have been challenged
(1) historicist models -take evolutionary and developmental approaches
-languages mutate and shift through time and cultural space
Evolutionary view assumes the more recent the better
(2) structural linguistics- langue and parole Look at language as a closed system
Whole determines the part
Revisionist views on language
Everyday language theories 日常語言學派
(1) Wittgenstein bull language as usebull there is no unity of language but only clusters of usage
governed by a system of rules untranslatable into those of others ndash ldquolanguage-gamesrdquo family resemblances
Revisionist views on language
Everyday language theories 日常語言學派
(2) JL Austin Speech Act Theory
Language is not just about signification or naming Every utterance is directing towards intention and action
The act of speech = the speaking of an act
Performativity things might be done with wordsIllocutionary acts of speech Vs perlocutionary acts of speech
bull Actions performed by virtue of words (illocutionary acts 語內表現行為的 )bull Actions performed as a consequence of words the name performs itself an
d in the process of performing the name becomes a thing done (perlocutionary acts 語言表達效果的 )
A word not only signifies a thing but that the signification will also be an enactment of the thing
Revisionist views on language a summary
Historicist amp Structuralist view of language
Everyday Language Theories
[Wittgenstein Speech Act Theories]
Key distinctions
The importance of meaning-makingThe location of meanings
The changing locations of meaning-makinghellip
Societycultureauthoritieseducationtraditions
Everyday life setting the ordinary person
The importance of meaning-making
Meaningssignifier-signifier usage use performance intention amp actions inventive activities
(重點)意義符碼 符號變為應用指向行為意義的創造性
SignificationRepresentation the constant act to question and play with signifiers and to overthrow stable meanings
(重點)表徵再現意義 符碼的修正和再造變為無限延伸的嬉戲解構顛覆
Performativity
Things might be done with words
A word not only signifies a thing but that the signification will also be an enactment of the thing
(Speech Act Theory)
Act amp process of speech gt settled meanings
Performativity amp Deconstruction Jacques Derrida
Critique of Western intellectual traditionsbull Critique of ldquologocentrismrdquo the dependence on fixed a priori trans
cendental meanings that is universal meanings concepts and forms of logic within human reason before any other kinds of thinking occurs
bull Critique of ldquophonocentrismrdquo that is priority to sounds and speech over writing
bull Critique of stabilized meanings (To him meaning can only be generated through the play of signifiers and therefore cannot be fixed Words carry multiple meanings)
[reference chapter on Derrida in Chris Barkerrsquos Cultural Studies an introduction see handout]
Performativity-Derrida-Differance
Differance (Vs ldquologocentrismrdquo)
ndash Language is non-representational meaning is unstable and constantly slides away
ndash Meaning is always generated via difference 差異 and deferral
ndash Every articulation of a signifier bears a trace of its previous articulations
ndash The relation between a word and its meaning is that of ldquosupplementrdquo and not identity
bull There is no pure referentiality
Performativity-Derrida-Writing
Writing (Vs ldquophonocentrismrdquo)
ndash Writing is not secondary to speechndash Truths are not outside the act of writing and t
he subject who writes
Performativity-Derrida-Deconstruction
Deconstruction ldquoword playrdquordquowriting performancesrdquo
bull To deconstruct means to take apart to undo to reveal the underlying assumption
bull Deconstruction involves destroying the hierarchical binary oppositions 二元对立
bull To deconstruct is to place a word under erasure
Performativity Judith Butler
Reading Writing and Performing
Influence from Speech Act Theory amp Derridarsquos deconstructionism
Performativity Judith Butler Reading Writing and Performing
Reading 解读
to deconstruct 解构 (to take someone down exposing what fails to work at the level of appearance) via interpretation
Performativity Judith Butler Reading Writing and Performing
Writing书写
ldquoThe politics of writingrdquo 书写的政治 necessarily foregrounding stylecalling into question ordinary language -- eg grammar and style narrativity etc ndash to look at how we structure the world via language in order to bring ldquonewnessrdquo to the world
[Source Salih Sara and Judith Butler (eds) 2004 The Judith Butler Reader Malden (MA) Oxford (UK) Blackwell Publishing P 325]
Performativity Judith Butler Reading Writing and Performing
Basis (of her ldquopolitics of writingrdquo)
bull Butlerrsquos position as critical intellectual
the commitment to engage in questioning set norms and ldquobasicrdquo assumptions
(comparable and related to)
bull Michel Foucault 米契 福柯rsquo s ldquopolitics of discomfortrdquo designed to estrange and upset
Performativity Judith Butler Reading Writing and Performing
Performing 抒演
to effectuate realness
to engage in concrete action
hellipto the degree that it resists settled reading
ldquoRadical re-significationrdquo basis for intervention in the form of creative activities
[See Paris is Burning on video]
Performativity Judith Butler
Reading and performing
[see Paris is Burning on video]
There is NO STABLE IDENTITYonly the materiality of the body
没有稳定的身份只有身体的物质性
Spaces of Writing ldquoPerformative Writingrdquo
Performative writing -- an impetus to naming
THREE sources[Nietzsche and Wittgenstein]bull Derridabull Judith Butlerbull Literary works Laurence Sterne James Joyce Samue
l Beckett the American ldquolanguage poetsrdquo such as Robert Creeley Ron Silliman Rosemary Waldrop and Lyn Heijinian
ldquoPerformative writingrdquo
bull Writing is not a functional tool
bull Writing is not for the sake of the ideas conveyed
bull The ldquomeaningsrdquo of writing is not in its content but in the act itself
bull Only the real present tense of writing and the continuous act of writing make writing a purposeful activity
ldquoPerformative Writingrdquo
Writing involves power and control
A performance that engages with language necessarily comes face to face with power
Performative writing is often politically charged although the act itself is to engage with forms
ldquoPerformative Writingrdquo
bull A work with performative character often begins with citing or setting up a specific situation not with the burden of meanings and purposes It often leaves open room for new discoveries to which re-strategizing is required along the way
[compare this to the ldquopoetics of discoveryrdquo 發現的詩學 as opposed to the ldquopoetics of significationrdquo 象徵的詩學 ]
bull The conventional boundaries between or the separation of pre-production production post-production reception has to be challenged
Performativity in creative work may highlight the following
bull Undermines the idea of ldquocompleted-nessrdquo of a work therersquos NO clear demarcation or definitive moment for a fully finished work There is only a deliberate even arbitrary drawing to a close of a self-conscious creative process for a specific reason
bull Ultimate meanings are NOT pre-determined even though specific points of intervention are prescribed
gtFinal meanings donrsquot exist before the beginning of the work gtMeanings are generated along the process of the evolvement of the work the result of discovery rather than planning
Performative Writing
Performative video
Performative photography
(Please refer to list of case studies)
Performing the Self
bull Gary Hill ldquoI want to dialog with my mental process consciously self-consciouslyrdquo [Art + Performance p 186-7]
bull Working with no preconceived images the work is more the process of performance and fictionalizationhellip
Photo Voice
Participatory Action Research
Three examples
-women in Yunnan
-women in Guantamela
-children and the disabled
Work samples
Works by Linda Lai
One Take (2003)
Door Game (2005)
- SM6305 Media art theory amp practice
- language as enunciation
- Revisionist views on language
- Slide 4
- Revisionist views on language a summary
- The changing locations of meaning-makinghellip
- The importance of meaning-making
- Performativity
- Performativity amp Deconstruction Jacques Derrida
- Performativity-Derrida-Differance
- Performativity-Derrida-Writing
- Performativity-Derrida-Deconstruction
- Performativity Judith Butler
- Performativity Judith Butler Reading Writing and Performing
- Slide 15
- Slide 16
- Slide 17
- Slide 18
- Spaces of Writing ldquoPerformative Writingrdquo
- ldquoPerformative writingrdquo
- ldquoPerformative Writingrdquo
- Slide 22
- Performativity in creative work may highlight the following
- Slide 24
- Performing the Self
- Photo Voice
- Work samples
-
language as enunciation
Two kinds of theory of language have been challenged
(1) historicist models -take evolutionary and developmental approaches
-languages mutate and shift through time and cultural space
Evolutionary view assumes the more recent the better
(2) structural linguistics- langue and parole Look at language as a closed system
Whole determines the part
Revisionist views on language
Everyday language theories 日常語言學派
(1) Wittgenstein bull language as usebull there is no unity of language but only clusters of usage
governed by a system of rules untranslatable into those of others ndash ldquolanguage-gamesrdquo family resemblances
Revisionist views on language
Everyday language theories 日常語言學派
(2) JL Austin Speech Act Theory
Language is not just about signification or naming Every utterance is directing towards intention and action
The act of speech = the speaking of an act
Performativity things might be done with wordsIllocutionary acts of speech Vs perlocutionary acts of speech
bull Actions performed by virtue of words (illocutionary acts 語內表現行為的 )bull Actions performed as a consequence of words the name performs itself an
d in the process of performing the name becomes a thing done (perlocutionary acts 語言表達效果的 )
A word not only signifies a thing but that the signification will also be an enactment of the thing
Revisionist views on language a summary
Historicist amp Structuralist view of language
Everyday Language Theories
[Wittgenstein Speech Act Theories]
Key distinctions
The importance of meaning-makingThe location of meanings
The changing locations of meaning-makinghellip
Societycultureauthoritieseducationtraditions
Everyday life setting the ordinary person
The importance of meaning-making
Meaningssignifier-signifier usage use performance intention amp actions inventive activities
(重點)意義符碼 符號變為應用指向行為意義的創造性
SignificationRepresentation the constant act to question and play with signifiers and to overthrow stable meanings
(重點)表徵再現意義 符碼的修正和再造變為無限延伸的嬉戲解構顛覆
Performativity
Things might be done with words
A word not only signifies a thing but that the signification will also be an enactment of the thing
(Speech Act Theory)
Act amp process of speech gt settled meanings
Performativity amp Deconstruction Jacques Derrida
Critique of Western intellectual traditionsbull Critique of ldquologocentrismrdquo the dependence on fixed a priori trans
cendental meanings that is universal meanings concepts and forms of logic within human reason before any other kinds of thinking occurs
bull Critique of ldquophonocentrismrdquo that is priority to sounds and speech over writing
bull Critique of stabilized meanings (To him meaning can only be generated through the play of signifiers and therefore cannot be fixed Words carry multiple meanings)
[reference chapter on Derrida in Chris Barkerrsquos Cultural Studies an introduction see handout]
Performativity-Derrida-Differance
Differance (Vs ldquologocentrismrdquo)
ndash Language is non-representational meaning is unstable and constantly slides away
ndash Meaning is always generated via difference 差異 and deferral
ndash Every articulation of a signifier bears a trace of its previous articulations
ndash The relation between a word and its meaning is that of ldquosupplementrdquo and not identity
bull There is no pure referentiality
Performativity-Derrida-Writing
Writing (Vs ldquophonocentrismrdquo)
ndash Writing is not secondary to speechndash Truths are not outside the act of writing and t
he subject who writes
Performativity-Derrida-Deconstruction
Deconstruction ldquoword playrdquordquowriting performancesrdquo
bull To deconstruct means to take apart to undo to reveal the underlying assumption
bull Deconstruction involves destroying the hierarchical binary oppositions 二元对立
bull To deconstruct is to place a word under erasure
Performativity Judith Butler
Reading Writing and Performing
Influence from Speech Act Theory amp Derridarsquos deconstructionism
Performativity Judith Butler Reading Writing and Performing
Reading 解读
to deconstruct 解构 (to take someone down exposing what fails to work at the level of appearance) via interpretation
Performativity Judith Butler Reading Writing and Performing
Writing书写
ldquoThe politics of writingrdquo 书写的政治 necessarily foregrounding stylecalling into question ordinary language -- eg grammar and style narrativity etc ndash to look at how we structure the world via language in order to bring ldquonewnessrdquo to the world
[Source Salih Sara and Judith Butler (eds) 2004 The Judith Butler Reader Malden (MA) Oxford (UK) Blackwell Publishing P 325]
Performativity Judith Butler Reading Writing and Performing
Basis (of her ldquopolitics of writingrdquo)
bull Butlerrsquos position as critical intellectual
the commitment to engage in questioning set norms and ldquobasicrdquo assumptions
(comparable and related to)
bull Michel Foucault 米契 福柯rsquo s ldquopolitics of discomfortrdquo designed to estrange and upset
Performativity Judith Butler Reading Writing and Performing
Performing 抒演
to effectuate realness
to engage in concrete action
hellipto the degree that it resists settled reading
ldquoRadical re-significationrdquo basis for intervention in the form of creative activities
[See Paris is Burning on video]
Performativity Judith Butler
Reading and performing
[see Paris is Burning on video]
There is NO STABLE IDENTITYonly the materiality of the body
没有稳定的身份只有身体的物质性
Spaces of Writing ldquoPerformative Writingrdquo
Performative writing -- an impetus to naming
THREE sources[Nietzsche and Wittgenstein]bull Derridabull Judith Butlerbull Literary works Laurence Sterne James Joyce Samue
l Beckett the American ldquolanguage poetsrdquo such as Robert Creeley Ron Silliman Rosemary Waldrop and Lyn Heijinian
ldquoPerformative writingrdquo
bull Writing is not a functional tool
bull Writing is not for the sake of the ideas conveyed
bull The ldquomeaningsrdquo of writing is not in its content but in the act itself
bull Only the real present tense of writing and the continuous act of writing make writing a purposeful activity
ldquoPerformative Writingrdquo
Writing involves power and control
A performance that engages with language necessarily comes face to face with power
Performative writing is often politically charged although the act itself is to engage with forms
ldquoPerformative Writingrdquo
bull A work with performative character often begins with citing or setting up a specific situation not with the burden of meanings and purposes It often leaves open room for new discoveries to which re-strategizing is required along the way
[compare this to the ldquopoetics of discoveryrdquo 發現的詩學 as opposed to the ldquopoetics of significationrdquo 象徵的詩學 ]
bull The conventional boundaries between or the separation of pre-production production post-production reception has to be challenged
Performativity in creative work may highlight the following
bull Undermines the idea of ldquocompleted-nessrdquo of a work therersquos NO clear demarcation or definitive moment for a fully finished work There is only a deliberate even arbitrary drawing to a close of a self-conscious creative process for a specific reason
bull Ultimate meanings are NOT pre-determined even though specific points of intervention are prescribed
gtFinal meanings donrsquot exist before the beginning of the work gtMeanings are generated along the process of the evolvement of the work the result of discovery rather than planning
Performative Writing
Performative video
Performative photography
(Please refer to list of case studies)
Performing the Self
bull Gary Hill ldquoI want to dialog with my mental process consciously self-consciouslyrdquo [Art + Performance p 186-7]
bull Working with no preconceived images the work is more the process of performance and fictionalizationhellip
Photo Voice
Participatory Action Research
Three examples
-women in Yunnan
-women in Guantamela
-children and the disabled
Work samples
Works by Linda Lai
One Take (2003)
Door Game (2005)
- SM6305 Media art theory amp practice
- language as enunciation
- Revisionist views on language
- Slide 4
- Revisionist views on language a summary
- The changing locations of meaning-makinghellip
- The importance of meaning-making
- Performativity
- Performativity amp Deconstruction Jacques Derrida
- Performativity-Derrida-Differance
- Performativity-Derrida-Writing
- Performativity-Derrida-Deconstruction
- Performativity Judith Butler
- Performativity Judith Butler Reading Writing and Performing
- Slide 15
- Slide 16
- Slide 17
- Slide 18
- Spaces of Writing ldquoPerformative Writingrdquo
- ldquoPerformative writingrdquo
- ldquoPerformative Writingrdquo
- Slide 22
- Performativity in creative work may highlight the following
- Slide 24
- Performing the Self
- Photo Voice
- Work samples
-
Revisionist views on language
Everyday language theories 日常語言學派
(1) Wittgenstein bull language as usebull there is no unity of language but only clusters of usage
governed by a system of rules untranslatable into those of others ndash ldquolanguage-gamesrdquo family resemblances
Revisionist views on language
Everyday language theories 日常語言學派
(2) JL Austin Speech Act Theory
Language is not just about signification or naming Every utterance is directing towards intention and action
The act of speech = the speaking of an act
Performativity things might be done with wordsIllocutionary acts of speech Vs perlocutionary acts of speech
bull Actions performed by virtue of words (illocutionary acts 語內表現行為的 )bull Actions performed as a consequence of words the name performs itself an
d in the process of performing the name becomes a thing done (perlocutionary acts 語言表達效果的 )
A word not only signifies a thing but that the signification will also be an enactment of the thing
Revisionist views on language a summary
Historicist amp Structuralist view of language
Everyday Language Theories
[Wittgenstein Speech Act Theories]
Key distinctions
The importance of meaning-makingThe location of meanings
The changing locations of meaning-makinghellip
Societycultureauthoritieseducationtraditions
Everyday life setting the ordinary person
The importance of meaning-making
Meaningssignifier-signifier usage use performance intention amp actions inventive activities
(重點)意義符碼 符號變為應用指向行為意義的創造性
SignificationRepresentation the constant act to question and play with signifiers and to overthrow stable meanings
(重點)表徵再現意義 符碼的修正和再造變為無限延伸的嬉戲解構顛覆
Performativity
Things might be done with words
A word not only signifies a thing but that the signification will also be an enactment of the thing
(Speech Act Theory)
Act amp process of speech gt settled meanings
Performativity amp Deconstruction Jacques Derrida
Critique of Western intellectual traditionsbull Critique of ldquologocentrismrdquo the dependence on fixed a priori trans
cendental meanings that is universal meanings concepts and forms of logic within human reason before any other kinds of thinking occurs
bull Critique of ldquophonocentrismrdquo that is priority to sounds and speech over writing
bull Critique of stabilized meanings (To him meaning can only be generated through the play of signifiers and therefore cannot be fixed Words carry multiple meanings)
[reference chapter on Derrida in Chris Barkerrsquos Cultural Studies an introduction see handout]
Performativity-Derrida-Differance
Differance (Vs ldquologocentrismrdquo)
ndash Language is non-representational meaning is unstable and constantly slides away
ndash Meaning is always generated via difference 差異 and deferral
ndash Every articulation of a signifier bears a trace of its previous articulations
ndash The relation between a word and its meaning is that of ldquosupplementrdquo and not identity
bull There is no pure referentiality
Performativity-Derrida-Writing
Writing (Vs ldquophonocentrismrdquo)
ndash Writing is not secondary to speechndash Truths are not outside the act of writing and t
he subject who writes
Performativity-Derrida-Deconstruction
Deconstruction ldquoword playrdquordquowriting performancesrdquo
bull To deconstruct means to take apart to undo to reveal the underlying assumption
bull Deconstruction involves destroying the hierarchical binary oppositions 二元对立
bull To deconstruct is to place a word under erasure
Performativity Judith Butler
Reading Writing and Performing
Influence from Speech Act Theory amp Derridarsquos deconstructionism
Performativity Judith Butler Reading Writing and Performing
Reading 解读
to deconstruct 解构 (to take someone down exposing what fails to work at the level of appearance) via interpretation
Performativity Judith Butler Reading Writing and Performing
Writing书写
ldquoThe politics of writingrdquo 书写的政治 necessarily foregrounding stylecalling into question ordinary language -- eg grammar and style narrativity etc ndash to look at how we structure the world via language in order to bring ldquonewnessrdquo to the world
[Source Salih Sara and Judith Butler (eds) 2004 The Judith Butler Reader Malden (MA) Oxford (UK) Blackwell Publishing P 325]
Performativity Judith Butler Reading Writing and Performing
Basis (of her ldquopolitics of writingrdquo)
bull Butlerrsquos position as critical intellectual
the commitment to engage in questioning set norms and ldquobasicrdquo assumptions
(comparable and related to)
bull Michel Foucault 米契 福柯rsquo s ldquopolitics of discomfortrdquo designed to estrange and upset
Performativity Judith Butler Reading Writing and Performing
Performing 抒演
to effectuate realness
to engage in concrete action
hellipto the degree that it resists settled reading
ldquoRadical re-significationrdquo basis for intervention in the form of creative activities
[See Paris is Burning on video]
Performativity Judith Butler
Reading and performing
[see Paris is Burning on video]
There is NO STABLE IDENTITYonly the materiality of the body
没有稳定的身份只有身体的物质性
Spaces of Writing ldquoPerformative Writingrdquo
Performative writing -- an impetus to naming
THREE sources[Nietzsche and Wittgenstein]bull Derridabull Judith Butlerbull Literary works Laurence Sterne James Joyce Samue
l Beckett the American ldquolanguage poetsrdquo such as Robert Creeley Ron Silliman Rosemary Waldrop and Lyn Heijinian
ldquoPerformative writingrdquo
bull Writing is not a functional tool
bull Writing is not for the sake of the ideas conveyed
bull The ldquomeaningsrdquo of writing is not in its content but in the act itself
bull Only the real present tense of writing and the continuous act of writing make writing a purposeful activity
ldquoPerformative Writingrdquo
Writing involves power and control
A performance that engages with language necessarily comes face to face with power
Performative writing is often politically charged although the act itself is to engage with forms
ldquoPerformative Writingrdquo
bull A work with performative character often begins with citing or setting up a specific situation not with the burden of meanings and purposes It often leaves open room for new discoveries to which re-strategizing is required along the way
[compare this to the ldquopoetics of discoveryrdquo 發現的詩學 as opposed to the ldquopoetics of significationrdquo 象徵的詩學 ]
bull The conventional boundaries between or the separation of pre-production production post-production reception has to be challenged
Performativity in creative work may highlight the following
bull Undermines the idea of ldquocompleted-nessrdquo of a work therersquos NO clear demarcation or definitive moment for a fully finished work There is only a deliberate even arbitrary drawing to a close of a self-conscious creative process for a specific reason
bull Ultimate meanings are NOT pre-determined even though specific points of intervention are prescribed
gtFinal meanings donrsquot exist before the beginning of the work gtMeanings are generated along the process of the evolvement of the work the result of discovery rather than planning
Performative Writing
Performative video
Performative photography
(Please refer to list of case studies)
Performing the Self
bull Gary Hill ldquoI want to dialog with my mental process consciously self-consciouslyrdquo [Art + Performance p 186-7]
bull Working with no preconceived images the work is more the process of performance and fictionalizationhellip
Photo Voice
Participatory Action Research
Three examples
-women in Yunnan
-women in Guantamela
-children and the disabled
Work samples
Works by Linda Lai
One Take (2003)
Door Game (2005)
- SM6305 Media art theory amp practice
- language as enunciation
- Revisionist views on language
- Slide 4
- Revisionist views on language a summary
- The changing locations of meaning-makinghellip
- The importance of meaning-making
- Performativity
- Performativity amp Deconstruction Jacques Derrida
- Performativity-Derrida-Differance
- Performativity-Derrida-Writing
- Performativity-Derrida-Deconstruction
- Performativity Judith Butler
- Performativity Judith Butler Reading Writing and Performing
- Slide 15
- Slide 16
- Slide 17
- Slide 18
- Spaces of Writing ldquoPerformative Writingrdquo
- ldquoPerformative writingrdquo
- ldquoPerformative Writingrdquo
- Slide 22
- Performativity in creative work may highlight the following
- Slide 24
- Performing the Self
- Photo Voice
- Work samples
-
Revisionist views on language
Everyday language theories 日常語言學派
(2) JL Austin Speech Act Theory
Language is not just about signification or naming Every utterance is directing towards intention and action
The act of speech = the speaking of an act
Performativity things might be done with wordsIllocutionary acts of speech Vs perlocutionary acts of speech
bull Actions performed by virtue of words (illocutionary acts 語內表現行為的 )bull Actions performed as a consequence of words the name performs itself an
d in the process of performing the name becomes a thing done (perlocutionary acts 語言表達效果的 )
A word not only signifies a thing but that the signification will also be an enactment of the thing
Revisionist views on language a summary
Historicist amp Structuralist view of language
Everyday Language Theories
[Wittgenstein Speech Act Theories]
Key distinctions
The importance of meaning-makingThe location of meanings
The changing locations of meaning-makinghellip
Societycultureauthoritieseducationtraditions
Everyday life setting the ordinary person
The importance of meaning-making
Meaningssignifier-signifier usage use performance intention amp actions inventive activities
(重點)意義符碼 符號變為應用指向行為意義的創造性
SignificationRepresentation the constant act to question and play with signifiers and to overthrow stable meanings
(重點)表徵再現意義 符碼的修正和再造變為無限延伸的嬉戲解構顛覆
Performativity
Things might be done with words
A word not only signifies a thing but that the signification will also be an enactment of the thing
(Speech Act Theory)
Act amp process of speech gt settled meanings
Performativity amp Deconstruction Jacques Derrida
Critique of Western intellectual traditionsbull Critique of ldquologocentrismrdquo the dependence on fixed a priori trans
cendental meanings that is universal meanings concepts and forms of logic within human reason before any other kinds of thinking occurs
bull Critique of ldquophonocentrismrdquo that is priority to sounds and speech over writing
bull Critique of stabilized meanings (To him meaning can only be generated through the play of signifiers and therefore cannot be fixed Words carry multiple meanings)
[reference chapter on Derrida in Chris Barkerrsquos Cultural Studies an introduction see handout]
Performativity-Derrida-Differance
Differance (Vs ldquologocentrismrdquo)
ndash Language is non-representational meaning is unstable and constantly slides away
ndash Meaning is always generated via difference 差異 and deferral
ndash Every articulation of a signifier bears a trace of its previous articulations
ndash The relation between a word and its meaning is that of ldquosupplementrdquo and not identity
bull There is no pure referentiality
Performativity-Derrida-Writing
Writing (Vs ldquophonocentrismrdquo)
ndash Writing is not secondary to speechndash Truths are not outside the act of writing and t
he subject who writes
Performativity-Derrida-Deconstruction
Deconstruction ldquoword playrdquordquowriting performancesrdquo
bull To deconstruct means to take apart to undo to reveal the underlying assumption
bull Deconstruction involves destroying the hierarchical binary oppositions 二元对立
bull To deconstruct is to place a word under erasure
Performativity Judith Butler
Reading Writing and Performing
Influence from Speech Act Theory amp Derridarsquos deconstructionism
Performativity Judith Butler Reading Writing and Performing
Reading 解读
to deconstruct 解构 (to take someone down exposing what fails to work at the level of appearance) via interpretation
Performativity Judith Butler Reading Writing and Performing
Writing书写
ldquoThe politics of writingrdquo 书写的政治 necessarily foregrounding stylecalling into question ordinary language -- eg grammar and style narrativity etc ndash to look at how we structure the world via language in order to bring ldquonewnessrdquo to the world
[Source Salih Sara and Judith Butler (eds) 2004 The Judith Butler Reader Malden (MA) Oxford (UK) Blackwell Publishing P 325]
Performativity Judith Butler Reading Writing and Performing
Basis (of her ldquopolitics of writingrdquo)
bull Butlerrsquos position as critical intellectual
the commitment to engage in questioning set norms and ldquobasicrdquo assumptions
(comparable and related to)
bull Michel Foucault 米契 福柯rsquo s ldquopolitics of discomfortrdquo designed to estrange and upset
Performativity Judith Butler Reading Writing and Performing
Performing 抒演
to effectuate realness
to engage in concrete action
hellipto the degree that it resists settled reading
ldquoRadical re-significationrdquo basis for intervention in the form of creative activities
[See Paris is Burning on video]
Performativity Judith Butler
Reading and performing
[see Paris is Burning on video]
There is NO STABLE IDENTITYonly the materiality of the body
没有稳定的身份只有身体的物质性
Spaces of Writing ldquoPerformative Writingrdquo
Performative writing -- an impetus to naming
THREE sources[Nietzsche and Wittgenstein]bull Derridabull Judith Butlerbull Literary works Laurence Sterne James Joyce Samue
l Beckett the American ldquolanguage poetsrdquo such as Robert Creeley Ron Silliman Rosemary Waldrop and Lyn Heijinian
ldquoPerformative writingrdquo
bull Writing is not a functional tool
bull Writing is not for the sake of the ideas conveyed
bull The ldquomeaningsrdquo of writing is not in its content but in the act itself
bull Only the real present tense of writing and the continuous act of writing make writing a purposeful activity
ldquoPerformative Writingrdquo
Writing involves power and control
A performance that engages with language necessarily comes face to face with power
Performative writing is often politically charged although the act itself is to engage with forms
ldquoPerformative Writingrdquo
bull A work with performative character often begins with citing or setting up a specific situation not with the burden of meanings and purposes It often leaves open room for new discoveries to which re-strategizing is required along the way
[compare this to the ldquopoetics of discoveryrdquo 發現的詩學 as opposed to the ldquopoetics of significationrdquo 象徵的詩學 ]
bull The conventional boundaries between or the separation of pre-production production post-production reception has to be challenged
Performativity in creative work may highlight the following
bull Undermines the idea of ldquocompleted-nessrdquo of a work therersquos NO clear demarcation or definitive moment for a fully finished work There is only a deliberate even arbitrary drawing to a close of a self-conscious creative process for a specific reason
bull Ultimate meanings are NOT pre-determined even though specific points of intervention are prescribed
gtFinal meanings donrsquot exist before the beginning of the work gtMeanings are generated along the process of the evolvement of the work the result of discovery rather than planning
Performative Writing
Performative video
Performative photography
(Please refer to list of case studies)
Performing the Self
bull Gary Hill ldquoI want to dialog with my mental process consciously self-consciouslyrdquo [Art + Performance p 186-7]
bull Working with no preconceived images the work is more the process of performance and fictionalizationhellip
Photo Voice
Participatory Action Research
Three examples
-women in Yunnan
-women in Guantamela
-children and the disabled
Work samples
Works by Linda Lai
One Take (2003)
Door Game (2005)
- SM6305 Media art theory amp practice
- language as enunciation
- Revisionist views on language
- Slide 4
- Revisionist views on language a summary
- The changing locations of meaning-makinghellip
- The importance of meaning-making
- Performativity
- Performativity amp Deconstruction Jacques Derrida
- Performativity-Derrida-Differance
- Performativity-Derrida-Writing
- Performativity-Derrida-Deconstruction
- Performativity Judith Butler
- Performativity Judith Butler Reading Writing and Performing
- Slide 15
- Slide 16
- Slide 17
- Slide 18
- Spaces of Writing ldquoPerformative Writingrdquo
- ldquoPerformative writingrdquo
- ldquoPerformative Writingrdquo
- Slide 22
- Performativity in creative work may highlight the following
- Slide 24
- Performing the Self
- Photo Voice
- Work samples
-
Revisionist views on language a summary
Historicist amp Structuralist view of language
Everyday Language Theories
[Wittgenstein Speech Act Theories]
Key distinctions
The importance of meaning-makingThe location of meanings
The changing locations of meaning-makinghellip
Societycultureauthoritieseducationtraditions
Everyday life setting the ordinary person
The importance of meaning-making
Meaningssignifier-signifier usage use performance intention amp actions inventive activities
(重點)意義符碼 符號變為應用指向行為意義的創造性
SignificationRepresentation the constant act to question and play with signifiers and to overthrow stable meanings
(重點)表徵再現意義 符碼的修正和再造變為無限延伸的嬉戲解構顛覆
Performativity
Things might be done with words
A word not only signifies a thing but that the signification will also be an enactment of the thing
(Speech Act Theory)
Act amp process of speech gt settled meanings
Performativity amp Deconstruction Jacques Derrida
Critique of Western intellectual traditionsbull Critique of ldquologocentrismrdquo the dependence on fixed a priori trans
cendental meanings that is universal meanings concepts and forms of logic within human reason before any other kinds of thinking occurs
bull Critique of ldquophonocentrismrdquo that is priority to sounds and speech over writing
bull Critique of stabilized meanings (To him meaning can only be generated through the play of signifiers and therefore cannot be fixed Words carry multiple meanings)
[reference chapter on Derrida in Chris Barkerrsquos Cultural Studies an introduction see handout]
Performativity-Derrida-Differance
Differance (Vs ldquologocentrismrdquo)
ndash Language is non-representational meaning is unstable and constantly slides away
ndash Meaning is always generated via difference 差異 and deferral
ndash Every articulation of a signifier bears a trace of its previous articulations
ndash The relation between a word and its meaning is that of ldquosupplementrdquo and not identity
bull There is no pure referentiality
Performativity-Derrida-Writing
Writing (Vs ldquophonocentrismrdquo)
ndash Writing is not secondary to speechndash Truths are not outside the act of writing and t
he subject who writes
Performativity-Derrida-Deconstruction
Deconstruction ldquoword playrdquordquowriting performancesrdquo
bull To deconstruct means to take apart to undo to reveal the underlying assumption
bull Deconstruction involves destroying the hierarchical binary oppositions 二元对立
bull To deconstruct is to place a word under erasure
Performativity Judith Butler
Reading Writing and Performing
Influence from Speech Act Theory amp Derridarsquos deconstructionism
Performativity Judith Butler Reading Writing and Performing
Reading 解读
to deconstruct 解构 (to take someone down exposing what fails to work at the level of appearance) via interpretation
Performativity Judith Butler Reading Writing and Performing
Writing书写
ldquoThe politics of writingrdquo 书写的政治 necessarily foregrounding stylecalling into question ordinary language -- eg grammar and style narrativity etc ndash to look at how we structure the world via language in order to bring ldquonewnessrdquo to the world
[Source Salih Sara and Judith Butler (eds) 2004 The Judith Butler Reader Malden (MA) Oxford (UK) Blackwell Publishing P 325]
Performativity Judith Butler Reading Writing and Performing
Basis (of her ldquopolitics of writingrdquo)
bull Butlerrsquos position as critical intellectual
the commitment to engage in questioning set norms and ldquobasicrdquo assumptions
(comparable and related to)
bull Michel Foucault 米契 福柯rsquo s ldquopolitics of discomfortrdquo designed to estrange and upset
Performativity Judith Butler Reading Writing and Performing
Performing 抒演
to effectuate realness
to engage in concrete action
hellipto the degree that it resists settled reading
ldquoRadical re-significationrdquo basis for intervention in the form of creative activities
[See Paris is Burning on video]
Performativity Judith Butler
Reading and performing
[see Paris is Burning on video]
There is NO STABLE IDENTITYonly the materiality of the body
没有稳定的身份只有身体的物质性
Spaces of Writing ldquoPerformative Writingrdquo
Performative writing -- an impetus to naming
THREE sources[Nietzsche and Wittgenstein]bull Derridabull Judith Butlerbull Literary works Laurence Sterne James Joyce Samue
l Beckett the American ldquolanguage poetsrdquo such as Robert Creeley Ron Silliman Rosemary Waldrop and Lyn Heijinian
ldquoPerformative writingrdquo
bull Writing is not a functional tool
bull Writing is not for the sake of the ideas conveyed
bull The ldquomeaningsrdquo of writing is not in its content but in the act itself
bull Only the real present tense of writing and the continuous act of writing make writing a purposeful activity
ldquoPerformative Writingrdquo
Writing involves power and control
A performance that engages with language necessarily comes face to face with power
Performative writing is often politically charged although the act itself is to engage with forms
ldquoPerformative Writingrdquo
bull A work with performative character often begins with citing or setting up a specific situation not with the burden of meanings and purposes It often leaves open room for new discoveries to which re-strategizing is required along the way
[compare this to the ldquopoetics of discoveryrdquo 發現的詩學 as opposed to the ldquopoetics of significationrdquo 象徵的詩學 ]
bull The conventional boundaries between or the separation of pre-production production post-production reception has to be challenged
Performativity in creative work may highlight the following
bull Undermines the idea of ldquocompleted-nessrdquo of a work therersquos NO clear demarcation or definitive moment for a fully finished work There is only a deliberate even arbitrary drawing to a close of a self-conscious creative process for a specific reason
bull Ultimate meanings are NOT pre-determined even though specific points of intervention are prescribed
gtFinal meanings donrsquot exist before the beginning of the work gtMeanings are generated along the process of the evolvement of the work the result of discovery rather than planning
Performative Writing
Performative video
Performative photography
(Please refer to list of case studies)
Performing the Self
bull Gary Hill ldquoI want to dialog with my mental process consciously self-consciouslyrdquo [Art + Performance p 186-7]
bull Working with no preconceived images the work is more the process of performance and fictionalizationhellip
Photo Voice
Participatory Action Research
Three examples
-women in Yunnan
-women in Guantamela
-children and the disabled
Work samples
Works by Linda Lai
One Take (2003)
Door Game (2005)
- SM6305 Media art theory amp practice
- language as enunciation
- Revisionist views on language
- Slide 4
- Revisionist views on language a summary
- The changing locations of meaning-makinghellip
- The importance of meaning-making
- Performativity
- Performativity amp Deconstruction Jacques Derrida
- Performativity-Derrida-Differance
- Performativity-Derrida-Writing
- Performativity-Derrida-Deconstruction
- Performativity Judith Butler
- Performativity Judith Butler Reading Writing and Performing
- Slide 15
- Slide 16
- Slide 17
- Slide 18
- Spaces of Writing ldquoPerformative Writingrdquo
- ldquoPerformative writingrdquo
- ldquoPerformative Writingrdquo
- Slide 22
- Performativity in creative work may highlight the following
- Slide 24
- Performing the Self
- Photo Voice
- Work samples
-
The changing locations of meaning-makinghellip
Societycultureauthoritieseducationtraditions
Everyday life setting the ordinary person
The importance of meaning-making
Meaningssignifier-signifier usage use performance intention amp actions inventive activities
(重點)意義符碼 符號變為應用指向行為意義的創造性
SignificationRepresentation the constant act to question and play with signifiers and to overthrow stable meanings
(重點)表徵再現意義 符碼的修正和再造變為無限延伸的嬉戲解構顛覆
Performativity
Things might be done with words
A word not only signifies a thing but that the signification will also be an enactment of the thing
(Speech Act Theory)
Act amp process of speech gt settled meanings
Performativity amp Deconstruction Jacques Derrida
Critique of Western intellectual traditionsbull Critique of ldquologocentrismrdquo the dependence on fixed a priori trans
cendental meanings that is universal meanings concepts and forms of logic within human reason before any other kinds of thinking occurs
bull Critique of ldquophonocentrismrdquo that is priority to sounds and speech over writing
bull Critique of stabilized meanings (To him meaning can only be generated through the play of signifiers and therefore cannot be fixed Words carry multiple meanings)
[reference chapter on Derrida in Chris Barkerrsquos Cultural Studies an introduction see handout]
Performativity-Derrida-Differance
Differance (Vs ldquologocentrismrdquo)
ndash Language is non-representational meaning is unstable and constantly slides away
ndash Meaning is always generated via difference 差異 and deferral
ndash Every articulation of a signifier bears a trace of its previous articulations
ndash The relation between a word and its meaning is that of ldquosupplementrdquo and not identity
bull There is no pure referentiality
Performativity-Derrida-Writing
Writing (Vs ldquophonocentrismrdquo)
ndash Writing is not secondary to speechndash Truths are not outside the act of writing and t
he subject who writes
Performativity-Derrida-Deconstruction
Deconstruction ldquoword playrdquordquowriting performancesrdquo
bull To deconstruct means to take apart to undo to reveal the underlying assumption
bull Deconstruction involves destroying the hierarchical binary oppositions 二元对立
bull To deconstruct is to place a word under erasure
Performativity Judith Butler
Reading Writing and Performing
Influence from Speech Act Theory amp Derridarsquos deconstructionism
Performativity Judith Butler Reading Writing and Performing
Reading 解读
to deconstruct 解构 (to take someone down exposing what fails to work at the level of appearance) via interpretation
Performativity Judith Butler Reading Writing and Performing
Writing书写
ldquoThe politics of writingrdquo 书写的政治 necessarily foregrounding stylecalling into question ordinary language -- eg grammar and style narrativity etc ndash to look at how we structure the world via language in order to bring ldquonewnessrdquo to the world
[Source Salih Sara and Judith Butler (eds) 2004 The Judith Butler Reader Malden (MA) Oxford (UK) Blackwell Publishing P 325]
Performativity Judith Butler Reading Writing and Performing
Basis (of her ldquopolitics of writingrdquo)
bull Butlerrsquos position as critical intellectual
the commitment to engage in questioning set norms and ldquobasicrdquo assumptions
(comparable and related to)
bull Michel Foucault 米契 福柯rsquo s ldquopolitics of discomfortrdquo designed to estrange and upset
Performativity Judith Butler Reading Writing and Performing
Performing 抒演
to effectuate realness
to engage in concrete action
hellipto the degree that it resists settled reading
ldquoRadical re-significationrdquo basis for intervention in the form of creative activities
[See Paris is Burning on video]
Performativity Judith Butler
Reading and performing
[see Paris is Burning on video]
There is NO STABLE IDENTITYonly the materiality of the body
没有稳定的身份只有身体的物质性
Spaces of Writing ldquoPerformative Writingrdquo
Performative writing -- an impetus to naming
THREE sources[Nietzsche and Wittgenstein]bull Derridabull Judith Butlerbull Literary works Laurence Sterne James Joyce Samue
l Beckett the American ldquolanguage poetsrdquo such as Robert Creeley Ron Silliman Rosemary Waldrop and Lyn Heijinian
ldquoPerformative writingrdquo
bull Writing is not a functional tool
bull Writing is not for the sake of the ideas conveyed
bull The ldquomeaningsrdquo of writing is not in its content but in the act itself
bull Only the real present tense of writing and the continuous act of writing make writing a purposeful activity
ldquoPerformative Writingrdquo
Writing involves power and control
A performance that engages with language necessarily comes face to face with power
Performative writing is often politically charged although the act itself is to engage with forms
ldquoPerformative Writingrdquo
bull A work with performative character often begins with citing or setting up a specific situation not with the burden of meanings and purposes It often leaves open room for new discoveries to which re-strategizing is required along the way
[compare this to the ldquopoetics of discoveryrdquo 發現的詩學 as opposed to the ldquopoetics of significationrdquo 象徵的詩學 ]
bull The conventional boundaries between or the separation of pre-production production post-production reception has to be challenged
Performativity in creative work may highlight the following
bull Undermines the idea of ldquocompleted-nessrdquo of a work therersquos NO clear demarcation or definitive moment for a fully finished work There is only a deliberate even arbitrary drawing to a close of a self-conscious creative process for a specific reason
bull Ultimate meanings are NOT pre-determined even though specific points of intervention are prescribed
gtFinal meanings donrsquot exist before the beginning of the work gtMeanings are generated along the process of the evolvement of the work the result of discovery rather than planning
Performative Writing
Performative video
Performative photography
(Please refer to list of case studies)
Performing the Self
bull Gary Hill ldquoI want to dialog with my mental process consciously self-consciouslyrdquo [Art + Performance p 186-7]
bull Working with no preconceived images the work is more the process of performance and fictionalizationhellip
Photo Voice
Participatory Action Research
Three examples
-women in Yunnan
-women in Guantamela
-children and the disabled
Work samples
Works by Linda Lai
One Take (2003)
Door Game (2005)
- SM6305 Media art theory amp practice
- language as enunciation
- Revisionist views on language
- Slide 4
- Revisionist views on language a summary
- The changing locations of meaning-makinghellip
- The importance of meaning-making
- Performativity
- Performativity amp Deconstruction Jacques Derrida
- Performativity-Derrida-Differance
- Performativity-Derrida-Writing
- Performativity-Derrida-Deconstruction
- Performativity Judith Butler
- Performativity Judith Butler Reading Writing and Performing
- Slide 15
- Slide 16
- Slide 17
- Slide 18
- Spaces of Writing ldquoPerformative Writingrdquo
- ldquoPerformative writingrdquo
- ldquoPerformative Writingrdquo
- Slide 22
- Performativity in creative work may highlight the following
- Slide 24
- Performing the Self
- Photo Voice
- Work samples
-
The importance of meaning-making
Meaningssignifier-signifier usage use performance intention amp actions inventive activities
(重點)意義符碼 符號變為應用指向行為意義的創造性
SignificationRepresentation the constant act to question and play with signifiers and to overthrow stable meanings
(重點)表徵再現意義 符碼的修正和再造變為無限延伸的嬉戲解構顛覆
Performativity
Things might be done with words
A word not only signifies a thing but that the signification will also be an enactment of the thing
(Speech Act Theory)
Act amp process of speech gt settled meanings
Performativity amp Deconstruction Jacques Derrida
Critique of Western intellectual traditionsbull Critique of ldquologocentrismrdquo the dependence on fixed a priori trans
cendental meanings that is universal meanings concepts and forms of logic within human reason before any other kinds of thinking occurs
bull Critique of ldquophonocentrismrdquo that is priority to sounds and speech over writing
bull Critique of stabilized meanings (To him meaning can only be generated through the play of signifiers and therefore cannot be fixed Words carry multiple meanings)
[reference chapter on Derrida in Chris Barkerrsquos Cultural Studies an introduction see handout]
Performativity-Derrida-Differance
Differance (Vs ldquologocentrismrdquo)
ndash Language is non-representational meaning is unstable and constantly slides away
ndash Meaning is always generated via difference 差異 and deferral
ndash Every articulation of a signifier bears a trace of its previous articulations
ndash The relation between a word and its meaning is that of ldquosupplementrdquo and not identity
bull There is no pure referentiality
Performativity-Derrida-Writing
Writing (Vs ldquophonocentrismrdquo)
ndash Writing is not secondary to speechndash Truths are not outside the act of writing and t
he subject who writes
Performativity-Derrida-Deconstruction
Deconstruction ldquoword playrdquordquowriting performancesrdquo
bull To deconstruct means to take apart to undo to reveal the underlying assumption
bull Deconstruction involves destroying the hierarchical binary oppositions 二元对立
bull To deconstruct is to place a word under erasure
Performativity Judith Butler
Reading Writing and Performing
Influence from Speech Act Theory amp Derridarsquos deconstructionism
Performativity Judith Butler Reading Writing and Performing
Reading 解读
to deconstruct 解构 (to take someone down exposing what fails to work at the level of appearance) via interpretation
Performativity Judith Butler Reading Writing and Performing
Writing书写
ldquoThe politics of writingrdquo 书写的政治 necessarily foregrounding stylecalling into question ordinary language -- eg grammar and style narrativity etc ndash to look at how we structure the world via language in order to bring ldquonewnessrdquo to the world
[Source Salih Sara and Judith Butler (eds) 2004 The Judith Butler Reader Malden (MA) Oxford (UK) Blackwell Publishing P 325]
Performativity Judith Butler Reading Writing and Performing
Basis (of her ldquopolitics of writingrdquo)
bull Butlerrsquos position as critical intellectual
the commitment to engage in questioning set norms and ldquobasicrdquo assumptions
(comparable and related to)
bull Michel Foucault 米契 福柯rsquo s ldquopolitics of discomfortrdquo designed to estrange and upset
Performativity Judith Butler Reading Writing and Performing
Performing 抒演
to effectuate realness
to engage in concrete action
hellipto the degree that it resists settled reading
ldquoRadical re-significationrdquo basis for intervention in the form of creative activities
[See Paris is Burning on video]
Performativity Judith Butler
Reading and performing
[see Paris is Burning on video]
There is NO STABLE IDENTITYonly the materiality of the body
没有稳定的身份只有身体的物质性
Spaces of Writing ldquoPerformative Writingrdquo
Performative writing -- an impetus to naming
THREE sources[Nietzsche and Wittgenstein]bull Derridabull Judith Butlerbull Literary works Laurence Sterne James Joyce Samue
l Beckett the American ldquolanguage poetsrdquo such as Robert Creeley Ron Silliman Rosemary Waldrop and Lyn Heijinian
ldquoPerformative writingrdquo
bull Writing is not a functional tool
bull Writing is not for the sake of the ideas conveyed
bull The ldquomeaningsrdquo of writing is not in its content but in the act itself
bull Only the real present tense of writing and the continuous act of writing make writing a purposeful activity
ldquoPerformative Writingrdquo
Writing involves power and control
A performance that engages with language necessarily comes face to face with power
Performative writing is often politically charged although the act itself is to engage with forms
ldquoPerformative Writingrdquo
bull A work with performative character often begins with citing or setting up a specific situation not with the burden of meanings and purposes It often leaves open room for new discoveries to which re-strategizing is required along the way
[compare this to the ldquopoetics of discoveryrdquo 發現的詩學 as opposed to the ldquopoetics of significationrdquo 象徵的詩學 ]
bull The conventional boundaries between or the separation of pre-production production post-production reception has to be challenged
Performativity in creative work may highlight the following
bull Undermines the idea of ldquocompleted-nessrdquo of a work therersquos NO clear demarcation or definitive moment for a fully finished work There is only a deliberate even arbitrary drawing to a close of a self-conscious creative process for a specific reason
bull Ultimate meanings are NOT pre-determined even though specific points of intervention are prescribed
gtFinal meanings donrsquot exist before the beginning of the work gtMeanings are generated along the process of the evolvement of the work the result of discovery rather than planning
Performative Writing
Performative video
Performative photography
(Please refer to list of case studies)
Performing the Self
bull Gary Hill ldquoI want to dialog with my mental process consciously self-consciouslyrdquo [Art + Performance p 186-7]
bull Working with no preconceived images the work is more the process of performance and fictionalizationhellip
Photo Voice
Participatory Action Research
Three examples
-women in Yunnan
-women in Guantamela
-children and the disabled
Work samples
Works by Linda Lai
One Take (2003)
Door Game (2005)
- SM6305 Media art theory amp practice
- language as enunciation
- Revisionist views on language
- Slide 4
- Revisionist views on language a summary
- The changing locations of meaning-makinghellip
- The importance of meaning-making
- Performativity
- Performativity amp Deconstruction Jacques Derrida
- Performativity-Derrida-Differance
- Performativity-Derrida-Writing
- Performativity-Derrida-Deconstruction
- Performativity Judith Butler
- Performativity Judith Butler Reading Writing and Performing
- Slide 15
- Slide 16
- Slide 17
- Slide 18
- Spaces of Writing ldquoPerformative Writingrdquo
- ldquoPerformative writingrdquo
- ldquoPerformative Writingrdquo
- Slide 22
- Performativity in creative work may highlight the following
- Slide 24
- Performing the Self
- Photo Voice
- Work samples
-
Performativity
Things might be done with words
A word not only signifies a thing but that the signification will also be an enactment of the thing
(Speech Act Theory)
Act amp process of speech gt settled meanings
Performativity amp Deconstruction Jacques Derrida
Critique of Western intellectual traditionsbull Critique of ldquologocentrismrdquo the dependence on fixed a priori trans
cendental meanings that is universal meanings concepts and forms of logic within human reason before any other kinds of thinking occurs
bull Critique of ldquophonocentrismrdquo that is priority to sounds and speech over writing
bull Critique of stabilized meanings (To him meaning can only be generated through the play of signifiers and therefore cannot be fixed Words carry multiple meanings)
[reference chapter on Derrida in Chris Barkerrsquos Cultural Studies an introduction see handout]
Performativity-Derrida-Differance
Differance (Vs ldquologocentrismrdquo)
ndash Language is non-representational meaning is unstable and constantly slides away
ndash Meaning is always generated via difference 差異 and deferral
ndash Every articulation of a signifier bears a trace of its previous articulations
ndash The relation between a word and its meaning is that of ldquosupplementrdquo and not identity
bull There is no pure referentiality
Performativity-Derrida-Writing
Writing (Vs ldquophonocentrismrdquo)
ndash Writing is not secondary to speechndash Truths are not outside the act of writing and t
he subject who writes
Performativity-Derrida-Deconstruction
Deconstruction ldquoword playrdquordquowriting performancesrdquo
bull To deconstruct means to take apart to undo to reveal the underlying assumption
bull Deconstruction involves destroying the hierarchical binary oppositions 二元对立
bull To deconstruct is to place a word under erasure
Performativity Judith Butler
Reading Writing and Performing
Influence from Speech Act Theory amp Derridarsquos deconstructionism
Performativity Judith Butler Reading Writing and Performing
Reading 解读
to deconstruct 解构 (to take someone down exposing what fails to work at the level of appearance) via interpretation
Performativity Judith Butler Reading Writing and Performing
Writing书写
ldquoThe politics of writingrdquo 书写的政治 necessarily foregrounding stylecalling into question ordinary language -- eg grammar and style narrativity etc ndash to look at how we structure the world via language in order to bring ldquonewnessrdquo to the world
[Source Salih Sara and Judith Butler (eds) 2004 The Judith Butler Reader Malden (MA) Oxford (UK) Blackwell Publishing P 325]
Performativity Judith Butler Reading Writing and Performing
Basis (of her ldquopolitics of writingrdquo)
bull Butlerrsquos position as critical intellectual
the commitment to engage in questioning set norms and ldquobasicrdquo assumptions
(comparable and related to)
bull Michel Foucault 米契 福柯rsquo s ldquopolitics of discomfortrdquo designed to estrange and upset
Performativity Judith Butler Reading Writing and Performing
Performing 抒演
to effectuate realness
to engage in concrete action
hellipto the degree that it resists settled reading
ldquoRadical re-significationrdquo basis for intervention in the form of creative activities
[See Paris is Burning on video]
Performativity Judith Butler
Reading and performing
[see Paris is Burning on video]
There is NO STABLE IDENTITYonly the materiality of the body
没有稳定的身份只有身体的物质性
Spaces of Writing ldquoPerformative Writingrdquo
Performative writing -- an impetus to naming
THREE sources[Nietzsche and Wittgenstein]bull Derridabull Judith Butlerbull Literary works Laurence Sterne James Joyce Samue
l Beckett the American ldquolanguage poetsrdquo such as Robert Creeley Ron Silliman Rosemary Waldrop and Lyn Heijinian
ldquoPerformative writingrdquo
bull Writing is not a functional tool
bull Writing is not for the sake of the ideas conveyed
bull The ldquomeaningsrdquo of writing is not in its content but in the act itself
bull Only the real present tense of writing and the continuous act of writing make writing a purposeful activity
ldquoPerformative Writingrdquo
Writing involves power and control
A performance that engages with language necessarily comes face to face with power
Performative writing is often politically charged although the act itself is to engage with forms
ldquoPerformative Writingrdquo
bull A work with performative character often begins with citing or setting up a specific situation not with the burden of meanings and purposes It often leaves open room for new discoveries to which re-strategizing is required along the way
[compare this to the ldquopoetics of discoveryrdquo 發現的詩學 as opposed to the ldquopoetics of significationrdquo 象徵的詩學 ]
bull The conventional boundaries between or the separation of pre-production production post-production reception has to be challenged
Performativity in creative work may highlight the following
bull Undermines the idea of ldquocompleted-nessrdquo of a work therersquos NO clear demarcation or definitive moment for a fully finished work There is only a deliberate even arbitrary drawing to a close of a self-conscious creative process for a specific reason
bull Ultimate meanings are NOT pre-determined even though specific points of intervention are prescribed
gtFinal meanings donrsquot exist before the beginning of the work gtMeanings are generated along the process of the evolvement of the work the result of discovery rather than planning
Performative Writing
Performative video
Performative photography
(Please refer to list of case studies)
Performing the Self
bull Gary Hill ldquoI want to dialog with my mental process consciously self-consciouslyrdquo [Art + Performance p 186-7]
bull Working with no preconceived images the work is more the process of performance and fictionalizationhellip
Photo Voice
Participatory Action Research
Three examples
-women in Yunnan
-women in Guantamela
-children and the disabled
Work samples
Works by Linda Lai
One Take (2003)
Door Game (2005)
- SM6305 Media art theory amp practice
- language as enunciation
- Revisionist views on language
- Slide 4
- Revisionist views on language a summary
- The changing locations of meaning-makinghellip
- The importance of meaning-making
- Performativity
- Performativity amp Deconstruction Jacques Derrida
- Performativity-Derrida-Differance
- Performativity-Derrida-Writing
- Performativity-Derrida-Deconstruction
- Performativity Judith Butler
- Performativity Judith Butler Reading Writing and Performing
- Slide 15
- Slide 16
- Slide 17
- Slide 18
- Spaces of Writing ldquoPerformative Writingrdquo
- ldquoPerformative writingrdquo
- ldquoPerformative Writingrdquo
- Slide 22
- Performativity in creative work may highlight the following
- Slide 24
- Performing the Self
- Photo Voice
- Work samples
-
Performativity amp Deconstruction Jacques Derrida
Critique of Western intellectual traditionsbull Critique of ldquologocentrismrdquo the dependence on fixed a priori trans
cendental meanings that is universal meanings concepts and forms of logic within human reason before any other kinds of thinking occurs
bull Critique of ldquophonocentrismrdquo that is priority to sounds and speech over writing
bull Critique of stabilized meanings (To him meaning can only be generated through the play of signifiers and therefore cannot be fixed Words carry multiple meanings)
[reference chapter on Derrida in Chris Barkerrsquos Cultural Studies an introduction see handout]
Performativity-Derrida-Differance
Differance (Vs ldquologocentrismrdquo)
ndash Language is non-representational meaning is unstable and constantly slides away
ndash Meaning is always generated via difference 差異 and deferral
ndash Every articulation of a signifier bears a trace of its previous articulations
ndash The relation between a word and its meaning is that of ldquosupplementrdquo and not identity
bull There is no pure referentiality
Performativity-Derrida-Writing
Writing (Vs ldquophonocentrismrdquo)
ndash Writing is not secondary to speechndash Truths are not outside the act of writing and t
he subject who writes
Performativity-Derrida-Deconstruction
Deconstruction ldquoword playrdquordquowriting performancesrdquo
bull To deconstruct means to take apart to undo to reveal the underlying assumption
bull Deconstruction involves destroying the hierarchical binary oppositions 二元对立
bull To deconstruct is to place a word under erasure
Performativity Judith Butler
Reading Writing and Performing
Influence from Speech Act Theory amp Derridarsquos deconstructionism
Performativity Judith Butler Reading Writing and Performing
Reading 解读
to deconstruct 解构 (to take someone down exposing what fails to work at the level of appearance) via interpretation
Performativity Judith Butler Reading Writing and Performing
Writing书写
ldquoThe politics of writingrdquo 书写的政治 necessarily foregrounding stylecalling into question ordinary language -- eg grammar and style narrativity etc ndash to look at how we structure the world via language in order to bring ldquonewnessrdquo to the world
[Source Salih Sara and Judith Butler (eds) 2004 The Judith Butler Reader Malden (MA) Oxford (UK) Blackwell Publishing P 325]
Performativity Judith Butler Reading Writing and Performing
Basis (of her ldquopolitics of writingrdquo)
bull Butlerrsquos position as critical intellectual
the commitment to engage in questioning set norms and ldquobasicrdquo assumptions
(comparable and related to)
bull Michel Foucault 米契 福柯rsquo s ldquopolitics of discomfortrdquo designed to estrange and upset
Performativity Judith Butler Reading Writing and Performing
Performing 抒演
to effectuate realness
to engage in concrete action
hellipto the degree that it resists settled reading
ldquoRadical re-significationrdquo basis for intervention in the form of creative activities
[See Paris is Burning on video]
Performativity Judith Butler
Reading and performing
[see Paris is Burning on video]
There is NO STABLE IDENTITYonly the materiality of the body
没有稳定的身份只有身体的物质性
Spaces of Writing ldquoPerformative Writingrdquo
Performative writing -- an impetus to naming
THREE sources[Nietzsche and Wittgenstein]bull Derridabull Judith Butlerbull Literary works Laurence Sterne James Joyce Samue
l Beckett the American ldquolanguage poetsrdquo such as Robert Creeley Ron Silliman Rosemary Waldrop and Lyn Heijinian
ldquoPerformative writingrdquo
bull Writing is not a functional tool
bull Writing is not for the sake of the ideas conveyed
bull The ldquomeaningsrdquo of writing is not in its content but in the act itself
bull Only the real present tense of writing and the continuous act of writing make writing a purposeful activity
ldquoPerformative Writingrdquo
Writing involves power and control
A performance that engages with language necessarily comes face to face with power
Performative writing is often politically charged although the act itself is to engage with forms
ldquoPerformative Writingrdquo
bull A work with performative character often begins with citing or setting up a specific situation not with the burden of meanings and purposes It often leaves open room for new discoveries to which re-strategizing is required along the way
[compare this to the ldquopoetics of discoveryrdquo 發現的詩學 as opposed to the ldquopoetics of significationrdquo 象徵的詩學 ]
bull The conventional boundaries between or the separation of pre-production production post-production reception has to be challenged
Performativity in creative work may highlight the following
bull Undermines the idea of ldquocompleted-nessrdquo of a work therersquos NO clear demarcation or definitive moment for a fully finished work There is only a deliberate even arbitrary drawing to a close of a self-conscious creative process for a specific reason
bull Ultimate meanings are NOT pre-determined even though specific points of intervention are prescribed
gtFinal meanings donrsquot exist before the beginning of the work gtMeanings are generated along the process of the evolvement of the work the result of discovery rather than planning
Performative Writing
Performative video
Performative photography
(Please refer to list of case studies)
Performing the Self
bull Gary Hill ldquoI want to dialog with my mental process consciously self-consciouslyrdquo [Art + Performance p 186-7]
bull Working with no preconceived images the work is more the process of performance and fictionalizationhellip
Photo Voice
Participatory Action Research
Three examples
-women in Yunnan
-women in Guantamela
-children and the disabled
Work samples
Works by Linda Lai
One Take (2003)
Door Game (2005)
- SM6305 Media art theory amp practice
- language as enunciation
- Revisionist views on language
- Slide 4
- Revisionist views on language a summary
- The changing locations of meaning-makinghellip
- The importance of meaning-making
- Performativity
- Performativity amp Deconstruction Jacques Derrida
- Performativity-Derrida-Differance
- Performativity-Derrida-Writing
- Performativity-Derrida-Deconstruction
- Performativity Judith Butler
- Performativity Judith Butler Reading Writing and Performing
- Slide 15
- Slide 16
- Slide 17
- Slide 18
- Spaces of Writing ldquoPerformative Writingrdquo
- ldquoPerformative writingrdquo
- ldquoPerformative Writingrdquo
- Slide 22
- Performativity in creative work may highlight the following
- Slide 24
- Performing the Self
- Photo Voice
- Work samples
-
Performativity-Derrida-Differance
Differance (Vs ldquologocentrismrdquo)
ndash Language is non-representational meaning is unstable and constantly slides away
ndash Meaning is always generated via difference 差異 and deferral
ndash Every articulation of a signifier bears a trace of its previous articulations
ndash The relation between a word and its meaning is that of ldquosupplementrdquo and not identity
bull There is no pure referentiality
Performativity-Derrida-Writing
Writing (Vs ldquophonocentrismrdquo)
ndash Writing is not secondary to speechndash Truths are not outside the act of writing and t
he subject who writes
Performativity-Derrida-Deconstruction
Deconstruction ldquoword playrdquordquowriting performancesrdquo
bull To deconstruct means to take apart to undo to reveal the underlying assumption
bull Deconstruction involves destroying the hierarchical binary oppositions 二元对立
bull To deconstruct is to place a word under erasure
Performativity Judith Butler
Reading Writing and Performing
Influence from Speech Act Theory amp Derridarsquos deconstructionism
Performativity Judith Butler Reading Writing and Performing
Reading 解读
to deconstruct 解构 (to take someone down exposing what fails to work at the level of appearance) via interpretation
Performativity Judith Butler Reading Writing and Performing
Writing书写
ldquoThe politics of writingrdquo 书写的政治 necessarily foregrounding stylecalling into question ordinary language -- eg grammar and style narrativity etc ndash to look at how we structure the world via language in order to bring ldquonewnessrdquo to the world
[Source Salih Sara and Judith Butler (eds) 2004 The Judith Butler Reader Malden (MA) Oxford (UK) Blackwell Publishing P 325]
Performativity Judith Butler Reading Writing and Performing
Basis (of her ldquopolitics of writingrdquo)
bull Butlerrsquos position as critical intellectual
the commitment to engage in questioning set norms and ldquobasicrdquo assumptions
(comparable and related to)
bull Michel Foucault 米契 福柯rsquo s ldquopolitics of discomfortrdquo designed to estrange and upset
Performativity Judith Butler Reading Writing and Performing
Performing 抒演
to effectuate realness
to engage in concrete action
hellipto the degree that it resists settled reading
ldquoRadical re-significationrdquo basis for intervention in the form of creative activities
[See Paris is Burning on video]
Performativity Judith Butler
Reading and performing
[see Paris is Burning on video]
There is NO STABLE IDENTITYonly the materiality of the body
没有稳定的身份只有身体的物质性
Spaces of Writing ldquoPerformative Writingrdquo
Performative writing -- an impetus to naming
THREE sources[Nietzsche and Wittgenstein]bull Derridabull Judith Butlerbull Literary works Laurence Sterne James Joyce Samue
l Beckett the American ldquolanguage poetsrdquo such as Robert Creeley Ron Silliman Rosemary Waldrop and Lyn Heijinian
ldquoPerformative writingrdquo
bull Writing is not a functional tool
bull Writing is not for the sake of the ideas conveyed
bull The ldquomeaningsrdquo of writing is not in its content but in the act itself
bull Only the real present tense of writing and the continuous act of writing make writing a purposeful activity
ldquoPerformative Writingrdquo
Writing involves power and control
A performance that engages with language necessarily comes face to face with power
Performative writing is often politically charged although the act itself is to engage with forms
ldquoPerformative Writingrdquo
bull A work with performative character often begins with citing or setting up a specific situation not with the burden of meanings and purposes It often leaves open room for new discoveries to which re-strategizing is required along the way
[compare this to the ldquopoetics of discoveryrdquo 發現的詩學 as opposed to the ldquopoetics of significationrdquo 象徵的詩學 ]
bull The conventional boundaries between or the separation of pre-production production post-production reception has to be challenged
Performativity in creative work may highlight the following
bull Undermines the idea of ldquocompleted-nessrdquo of a work therersquos NO clear demarcation or definitive moment for a fully finished work There is only a deliberate even arbitrary drawing to a close of a self-conscious creative process for a specific reason
bull Ultimate meanings are NOT pre-determined even though specific points of intervention are prescribed
gtFinal meanings donrsquot exist before the beginning of the work gtMeanings are generated along the process of the evolvement of the work the result of discovery rather than planning
Performative Writing
Performative video
Performative photography
(Please refer to list of case studies)
Performing the Self
bull Gary Hill ldquoI want to dialog with my mental process consciously self-consciouslyrdquo [Art + Performance p 186-7]
bull Working with no preconceived images the work is more the process of performance and fictionalizationhellip
Photo Voice
Participatory Action Research
Three examples
-women in Yunnan
-women in Guantamela
-children and the disabled
Work samples
Works by Linda Lai
One Take (2003)
Door Game (2005)
- SM6305 Media art theory amp practice
- language as enunciation
- Revisionist views on language
- Slide 4
- Revisionist views on language a summary
- The changing locations of meaning-makinghellip
- The importance of meaning-making
- Performativity
- Performativity amp Deconstruction Jacques Derrida
- Performativity-Derrida-Differance
- Performativity-Derrida-Writing
- Performativity-Derrida-Deconstruction
- Performativity Judith Butler
- Performativity Judith Butler Reading Writing and Performing
- Slide 15
- Slide 16
- Slide 17
- Slide 18
- Spaces of Writing ldquoPerformative Writingrdquo
- ldquoPerformative writingrdquo
- ldquoPerformative Writingrdquo
- Slide 22
- Performativity in creative work may highlight the following
- Slide 24
- Performing the Self
- Photo Voice
- Work samples
-
Performativity-Derrida-Writing
Writing (Vs ldquophonocentrismrdquo)
ndash Writing is not secondary to speechndash Truths are not outside the act of writing and t
he subject who writes
Performativity-Derrida-Deconstruction
Deconstruction ldquoword playrdquordquowriting performancesrdquo
bull To deconstruct means to take apart to undo to reveal the underlying assumption
bull Deconstruction involves destroying the hierarchical binary oppositions 二元对立
bull To deconstruct is to place a word under erasure
Performativity Judith Butler
Reading Writing and Performing
Influence from Speech Act Theory amp Derridarsquos deconstructionism
Performativity Judith Butler Reading Writing and Performing
Reading 解读
to deconstruct 解构 (to take someone down exposing what fails to work at the level of appearance) via interpretation
Performativity Judith Butler Reading Writing and Performing
Writing书写
ldquoThe politics of writingrdquo 书写的政治 necessarily foregrounding stylecalling into question ordinary language -- eg grammar and style narrativity etc ndash to look at how we structure the world via language in order to bring ldquonewnessrdquo to the world
[Source Salih Sara and Judith Butler (eds) 2004 The Judith Butler Reader Malden (MA) Oxford (UK) Blackwell Publishing P 325]
Performativity Judith Butler Reading Writing and Performing
Basis (of her ldquopolitics of writingrdquo)
bull Butlerrsquos position as critical intellectual
the commitment to engage in questioning set norms and ldquobasicrdquo assumptions
(comparable and related to)
bull Michel Foucault 米契 福柯rsquo s ldquopolitics of discomfortrdquo designed to estrange and upset
Performativity Judith Butler Reading Writing and Performing
Performing 抒演
to effectuate realness
to engage in concrete action
hellipto the degree that it resists settled reading
ldquoRadical re-significationrdquo basis for intervention in the form of creative activities
[See Paris is Burning on video]
Performativity Judith Butler
Reading and performing
[see Paris is Burning on video]
There is NO STABLE IDENTITYonly the materiality of the body
没有稳定的身份只有身体的物质性
Spaces of Writing ldquoPerformative Writingrdquo
Performative writing -- an impetus to naming
THREE sources[Nietzsche and Wittgenstein]bull Derridabull Judith Butlerbull Literary works Laurence Sterne James Joyce Samue
l Beckett the American ldquolanguage poetsrdquo such as Robert Creeley Ron Silliman Rosemary Waldrop and Lyn Heijinian
ldquoPerformative writingrdquo
bull Writing is not a functional tool
bull Writing is not for the sake of the ideas conveyed
bull The ldquomeaningsrdquo of writing is not in its content but in the act itself
bull Only the real present tense of writing and the continuous act of writing make writing a purposeful activity
ldquoPerformative Writingrdquo
Writing involves power and control
A performance that engages with language necessarily comes face to face with power
Performative writing is often politically charged although the act itself is to engage with forms
ldquoPerformative Writingrdquo
bull A work with performative character often begins with citing or setting up a specific situation not with the burden of meanings and purposes It often leaves open room for new discoveries to which re-strategizing is required along the way
[compare this to the ldquopoetics of discoveryrdquo 發現的詩學 as opposed to the ldquopoetics of significationrdquo 象徵的詩學 ]
bull The conventional boundaries between or the separation of pre-production production post-production reception has to be challenged
Performativity in creative work may highlight the following
bull Undermines the idea of ldquocompleted-nessrdquo of a work therersquos NO clear demarcation or definitive moment for a fully finished work There is only a deliberate even arbitrary drawing to a close of a self-conscious creative process for a specific reason
bull Ultimate meanings are NOT pre-determined even though specific points of intervention are prescribed
gtFinal meanings donrsquot exist before the beginning of the work gtMeanings are generated along the process of the evolvement of the work the result of discovery rather than planning
Performative Writing
Performative video
Performative photography
(Please refer to list of case studies)
Performing the Self
bull Gary Hill ldquoI want to dialog with my mental process consciously self-consciouslyrdquo [Art + Performance p 186-7]
bull Working with no preconceived images the work is more the process of performance and fictionalizationhellip
Photo Voice
Participatory Action Research
Three examples
-women in Yunnan
-women in Guantamela
-children and the disabled
Work samples
Works by Linda Lai
One Take (2003)
Door Game (2005)
- SM6305 Media art theory amp practice
- language as enunciation
- Revisionist views on language
- Slide 4
- Revisionist views on language a summary
- The changing locations of meaning-makinghellip
- The importance of meaning-making
- Performativity
- Performativity amp Deconstruction Jacques Derrida
- Performativity-Derrida-Differance
- Performativity-Derrida-Writing
- Performativity-Derrida-Deconstruction
- Performativity Judith Butler
- Performativity Judith Butler Reading Writing and Performing
- Slide 15
- Slide 16
- Slide 17
- Slide 18
- Spaces of Writing ldquoPerformative Writingrdquo
- ldquoPerformative writingrdquo
- ldquoPerformative Writingrdquo
- Slide 22
- Performativity in creative work may highlight the following
- Slide 24
- Performing the Self
- Photo Voice
- Work samples
-
Performativity-Derrida-Deconstruction
Deconstruction ldquoword playrdquordquowriting performancesrdquo
bull To deconstruct means to take apart to undo to reveal the underlying assumption
bull Deconstruction involves destroying the hierarchical binary oppositions 二元对立
bull To deconstruct is to place a word under erasure
Performativity Judith Butler
Reading Writing and Performing
Influence from Speech Act Theory amp Derridarsquos deconstructionism
Performativity Judith Butler Reading Writing and Performing
Reading 解读
to deconstruct 解构 (to take someone down exposing what fails to work at the level of appearance) via interpretation
Performativity Judith Butler Reading Writing and Performing
Writing书写
ldquoThe politics of writingrdquo 书写的政治 necessarily foregrounding stylecalling into question ordinary language -- eg grammar and style narrativity etc ndash to look at how we structure the world via language in order to bring ldquonewnessrdquo to the world
[Source Salih Sara and Judith Butler (eds) 2004 The Judith Butler Reader Malden (MA) Oxford (UK) Blackwell Publishing P 325]
Performativity Judith Butler Reading Writing and Performing
Basis (of her ldquopolitics of writingrdquo)
bull Butlerrsquos position as critical intellectual
the commitment to engage in questioning set norms and ldquobasicrdquo assumptions
(comparable and related to)
bull Michel Foucault 米契 福柯rsquo s ldquopolitics of discomfortrdquo designed to estrange and upset
Performativity Judith Butler Reading Writing and Performing
Performing 抒演
to effectuate realness
to engage in concrete action
hellipto the degree that it resists settled reading
ldquoRadical re-significationrdquo basis for intervention in the form of creative activities
[See Paris is Burning on video]
Performativity Judith Butler
Reading and performing
[see Paris is Burning on video]
There is NO STABLE IDENTITYonly the materiality of the body
没有稳定的身份只有身体的物质性
Spaces of Writing ldquoPerformative Writingrdquo
Performative writing -- an impetus to naming
THREE sources[Nietzsche and Wittgenstein]bull Derridabull Judith Butlerbull Literary works Laurence Sterne James Joyce Samue
l Beckett the American ldquolanguage poetsrdquo such as Robert Creeley Ron Silliman Rosemary Waldrop and Lyn Heijinian
ldquoPerformative writingrdquo
bull Writing is not a functional tool
bull Writing is not for the sake of the ideas conveyed
bull The ldquomeaningsrdquo of writing is not in its content but in the act itself
bull Only the real present tense of writing and the continuous act of writing make writing a purposeful activity
ldquoPerformative Writingrdquo
Writing involves power and control
A performance that engages with language necessarily comes face to face with power
Performative writing is often politically charged although the act itself is to engage with forms
ldquoPerformative Writingrdquo
bull A work with performative character often begins with citing or setting up a specific situation not with the burden of meanings and purposes It often leaves open room for new discoveries to which re-strategizing is required along the way
[compare this to the ldquopoetics of discoveryrdquo 發現的詩學 as opposed to the ldquopoetics of significationrdquo 象徵的詩學 ]
bull The conventional boundaries between or the separation of pre-production production post-production reception has to be challenged
Performativity in creative work may highlight the following
bull Undermines the idea of ldquocompleted-nessrdquo of a work therersquos NO clear demarcation or definitive moment for a fully finished work There is only a deliberate even arbitrary drawing to a close of a self-conscious creative process for a specific reason
bull Ultimate meanings are NOT pre-determined even though specific points of intervention are prescribed
gtFinal meanings donrsquot exist before the beginning of the work gtMeanings are generated along the process of the evolvement of the work the result of discovery rather than planning
Performative Writing
Performative video
Performative photography
(Please refer to list of case studies)
Performing the Self
bull Gary Hill ldquoI want to dialog with my mental process consciously self-consciouslyrdquo [Art + Performance p 186-7]
bull Working with no preconceived images the work is more the process of performance and fictionalizationhellip
Photo Voice
Participatory Action Research
Three examples
-women in Yunnan
-women in Guantamela
-children and the disabled
Work samples
Works by Linda Lai
One Take (2003)
Door Game (2005)
- SM6305 Media art theory amp practice
- language as enunciation
- Revisionist views on language
- Slide 4
- Revisionist views on language a summary
- The changing locations of meaning-makinghellip
- The importance of meaning-making
- Performativity
- Performativity amp Deconstruction Jacques Derrida
- Performativity-Derrida-Differance
- Performativity-Derrida-Writing
- Performativity-Derrida-Deconstruction
- Performativity Judith Butler
- Performativity Judith Butler Reading Writing and Performing
- Slide 15
- Slide 16
- Slide 17
- Slide 18
- Spaces of Writing ldquoPerformative Writingrdquo
- ldquoPerformative writingrdquo
- ldquoPerformative Writingrdquo
- Slide 22
- Performativity in creative work may highlight the following
- Slide 24
- Performing the Self
- Photo Voice
- Work samples
-
Performativity Judith Butler
Reading Writing and Performing
Influence from Speech Act Theory amp Derridarsquos deconstructionism
Performativity Judith Butler Reading Writing and Performing
Reading 解读
to deconstruct 解构 (to take someone down exposing what fails to work at the level of appearance) via interpretation
Performativity Judith Butler Reading Writing and Performing
Writing书写
ldquoThe politics of writingrdquo 书写的政治 necessarily foregrounding stylecalling into question ordinary language -- eg grammar and style narrativity etc ndash to look at how we structure the world via language in order to bring ldquonewnessrdquo to the world
[Source Salih Sara and Judith Butler (eds) 2004 The Judith Butler Reader Malden (MA) Oxford (UK) Blackwell Publishing P 325]
Performativity Judith Butler Reading Writing and Performing
Basis (of her ldquopolitics of writingrdquo)
bull Butlerrsquos position as critical intellectual
the commitment to engage in questioning set norms and ldquobasicrdquo assumptions
(comparable and related to)
bull Michel Foucault 米契 福柯rsquo s ldquopolitics of discomfortrdquo designed to estrange and upset
Performativity Judith Butler Reading Writing and Performing
Performing 抒演
to effectuate realness
to engage in concrete action
hellipto the degree that it resists settled reading
ldquoRadical re-significationrdquo basis for intervention in the form of creative activities
[See Paris is Burning on video]
Performativity Judith Butler
Reading and performing
[see Paris is Burning on video]
There is NO STABLE IDENTITYonly the materiality of the body
没有稳定的身份只有身体的物质性
Spaces of Writing ldquoPerformative Writingrdquo
Performative writing -- an impetus to naming
THREE sources[Nietzsche and Wittgenstein]bull Derridabull Judith Butlerbull Literary works Laurence Sterne James Joyce Samue
l Beckett the American ldquolanguage poetsrdquo such as Robert Creeley Ron Silliman Rosemary Waldrop and Lyn Heijinian
ldquoPerformative writingrdquo
bull Writing is not a functional tool
bull Writing is not for the sake of the ideas conveyed
bull The ldquomeaningsrdquo of writing is not in its content but in the act itself
bull Only the real present tense of writing and the continuous act of writing make writing a purposeful activity
ldquoPerformative Writingrdquo
Writing involves power and control
A performance that engages with language necessarily comes face to face with power
Performative writing is often politically charged although the act itself is to engage with forms
ldquoPerformative Writingrdquo
bull A work with performative character often begins with citing or setting up a specific situation not with the burden of meanings and purposes It often leaves open room for new discoveries to which re-strategizing is required along the way
[compare this to the ldquopoetics of discoveryrdquo 發現的詩學 as opposed to the ldquopoetics of significationrdquo 象徵的詩學 ]
bull The conventional boundaries between or the separation of pre-production production post-production reception has to be challenged
Performativity in creative work may highlight the following
bull Undermines the idea of ldquocompleted-nessrdquo of a work therersquos NO clear demarcation or definitive moment for a fully finished work There is only a deliberate even arbitrary drawing to a close of a self-conscious creative process for a specific reason
bull Ultimate meanings are NOT pre-determined even though specific points of intervention are prescribed
gtFinal meanings donrsquot exist before the beginning of the work gtMeanings are generated along the process of the evolvement of the work the result of discovery rather than planning
Performative Writing
Performative video
Performative photography
(Please refer to list of case studies)
Performing the Self
bull Gary Hill ldquoI want to dialog with my mental process consciously self-consciouslyrdquo [Art + Performance p 186-7]
bull Working with no preconceived images the work is more the process of performance and fictionalizationhellip
Photo Voice
Participatory Action Research
Three examples
-women in Yunnan
-women in Guantamela
-children and the disabled
Work samples
Works by Linda Lai
One Take (2003)
Door Game (2005)
- SM6305 Media art theory amp practice
- language as enunciation
- Revisionist views on language
- Slide 4
- Revisionist views on language a summary
- The changing locations of meaning-makinghellip
- The importance of meaning-making
- Performativity
- Performativity amp Deconstruction Jacques Derrida
- Performativity-Derrida-Differance
- Performativity-Derrida-Writing
- Performativity-Derrida-Deconstruction
- Performativity Judith Butler
- Performativity Judith Butler Reading Writing and Performing
- Slide 15
- Slide 16
- Slide 17
- Slide 18
- Spaces of Writing ldquoPerformative Writingrdquo
- ldquoPerformative writingrdquo
- ldquoPerformative Writingrdquo
- Slide 22
- Performativity in creative work may highlight the following
- Slide 24
- Performing the Self
- Photo Voice
- Work samples
-
Performativity Judith Butler Reading Writing and Performing
Reading 解读
to deconstruct 解构 (to take someone down exposing what fails to work at the level of appearance) via interpretation
Performativity Judith Butler Reading Writing and Performing
Writing书写
ldquoThe politics of writingrdquo 书写的政治 necessarily foregrounding stylecalling into question ordinary language -- eg grammar and style narrativity etc ndash to look at how we structure the world via language in order to bring ldquonewnessrdquo to the world
[Source Salih Sara and Judith Butler (eds) 2004 The Judith Butler Reader Malden (MA) Oxford (UK) Blackwell Publishing P 325]
Performativity Judith Butler Reading Writing and Performing
Basis (of her ldquopolitics of writingrdquo)
bull Butlerrsquos position as critical intellectual
the commitment to engage in questioning set norms and ldquobasicrdquo assumptions
(comparable and related to)
bull Michel Foucault 米契 福柯rsquo s ldquopolitics of discomfortrdquo designed to estrange and upset
Performativity Judith Butler Reading Writing and Performing
Performing 抒演
to effectuate realness
to engage in concrete action
hellipto the degree that it resists settled reading
ldquoRadical re-significationrdquo basis for intervention in the form of creative activities
[See Paris is Burning on video]
Performativity Judith Butler
Reading and performing
[see Paris is Burning on video]
There is NO STABLE IDENTITYonly the materiality of the body
没有稳定的身份只有身体的物质性
Spaces of Writing ldquoPerformative Writingrdquo
Performative writing -- an impetus to naming
THREE sources[Nietzsche and Wittgenstein]bull Derridabull Judith Butlerbull Literary works Laurence Sterne James Joyce Samue
l Beckett the American ldquolanguage poetsrdquo such as Robert Creeley Ron Silliman Rosemary Waldrop and Lyn Heijinian
ldquoPerformative writingrdquo
bull Writing is not a functional tool
bull Writing is not for the sake of the ideas conveyed
bull The ldquomeaningsrdquo of writing is not in its content but in the act itself
bull Only the real present tense of writing and the continuous act of writing make writing a purposeful activity
ldquoPerformative Writingrdquo
Writing involves power and control
A performance that engages with language necessarily comes face to face with power
Performative writing is often politically charged although the act itself is to engage with forms
ldquoPerformative Writingrdquo
bull A work with performative character often begins with citing or setting up a specific situation not with the burden of meanings and purposes It often leaves open room for new discoveries to which re-strategizing is required along the way
[compare this to the ldquopoetics of discoveryrdquo 發現的詩學 as opposed to the ldquopoetics of significationrdquo 象徵的詩學 ]
bull The conventional boundaries between or the separation of pre-production production post-production reception has to be challenged
Performativity in creative work may highlight the following
bull Undermines the idea of ldquocompleted-nessrdquo of a work therersquos NO clear demarcation or definitive moment for a fully finished work There is only a deliberate even arbitrary drawing to a close of a self-conscious creative process for a specific reason
bull Ultimate meanings are NOT pre-determined even though specific points of intervention are prescribed
gtFinal meanings donrsquot exist before the beginning of the work gtMeanings are generated along the process of the evolvement of the work the result of discovery rather than planning
Performative Writing
Performative video
Performative photography
(Please refer to list of case studies)
Performing the Self
bull Gary Hill ldquoI want to dialog with my mental process consciously self-consciouslyrdquo [Art + Performance p 186-7]
bull Working with no preconceived images the work is more the process of performance and fictionalizationhellip
Photo Voice
Participatory Action Research
Three examples
-women in Yunnan
-women in Guantamela
-children and the disabled
Work samples
Works by Linda Lai
One Take (2003)
Door Game (2005)
- SM6305 Media art theory amp practice
- language as enunciation
- Revisionist views on language
- Slide 4
- Revisionist views on language a summary
- The changing locations of meaning-makinghellip
- The importance of meaning-making
- Performativity
- Performativity amp Deconstruction Jacques Derrida
- Performativity-Derrida-Differance
- Performativity-Derrida-Writing
- Performativity-Derrida-Deconstruction
- Performativity Judith Butler
- Performativity Judith Butler Reading Writing and Performing
- Slide 15
- Slide 16
- Slide 17
- Slide 18
- Spaces of Writing ldquoPerformative Writingrdquo
- ldquoPerformative writingrdquo
- ldquoPerformative Writingrdquo
- Slide 22
- Performativity in creative work may highlight the following
- Slide 24
- Performing the Self
- Photo Voice
- Work samples
-
Performativity Judith Butler Reading Writing and Performing
Writing书写
ldquoThe politics of writingrdquo 书写的政治 necessarily foregrounding stylecalling into question ordinary language -- eg grammar and style narrativity etc ndash to look at how we structure the world via language in order to bring ldquonewnessrdquo to the world
[Source Salih Sara and Judith Butler (eds) 2004 The Judith Butler Reader Malden (MA) Oxford (UK) Blackwell Publishing P 325]
Performativity Judith Butler Reading Writing and Performing
Basis (of her ldquopolitics of writingrdquo)
bull Butlerrsquos position as critical intellectual
the commitment to engage in questioning set norms and ldquobasicrdquo assumptions
(comparable and related to)
bull Michel Foucault 米契 福柯rsquo s ldquopolitics of discomfortrdquo designed to estrange and upset
Performativity Judith Butler Reading Writing and Performing
Performing 抒演
to effectuate realness
to engage in concrete action
hellipto the degree that it resists settled reading
ldquoRadical re-significationrdquo basis for intervention in the form of creative activities
[See Paris is Burning on video]
Performativity Judith Butler
Reading and performing
[see Paris is Burning on video]
There is NO STABLE IDENTITYonly the materiality of the body
没有稳定的身份只有身体的物质性
Spaces of Writing ldquoPerformative Writingrdquo
Performative writing -- an impetus to naming
THREE sources[Nietzsche and Wittgenstein]bull Derridabull Judith Butlerbull Literary works Laurence Sterne James Joyce Samue
l Beckett the American ldquolanguage poetsrdquo such as Robert Creeley Ron Silliman Rosemary Waldrop and Lyn Heijinian
ldquoPerformative writingrdquo
bull Writing is not a functional tool
bull Writing is not for the sake of the ideas conveyed
bull The ldquomeaningsrdquo of writing is not in its content but in the act itself
bull Only the real present tense of writing and the continuous act of writing make writing a purposeful activity
ldquoPerformative Writingrdquo
Writing involves power and control
A performance that engages with language necessarily comes face to face with power
Performative writing is often politically charged although the act itself is to engage with forms
ldquoPerformative Writingrdquo
bull A work with performative character often begins with citing or setting up a specific situation not with the burden of meanings and purposes It often leaves open room for new discoveries to which re-strategizing is required along the way
[compare this to the ldquopoetics of discoveryrdquo 發現的詩學 as opposed to the ldquopoetics of significationrdquo 象徵的詩學 ]
bull The conventional boundaries between or the separation of pre-production production post-production reception has to be challenged
Performativity in creative work may highlight the following
bull Undermines the idea of ldquocompleted-nessrdquo of a work therersquos NO clear demarcation or definitive moment for a fully finished work There is only a deliberate even arbitrary drawing to a close of a self-conscious creative process for a specific reason
bull Ultimate meanings are NOT pre-determined even though specific points of intervention are prescribed
gtFinal meanings donrsquot exist before the beginning of the work gtMeanings are generated along the process of the evolvement of the work the result of discovery rather than planning
Performative Writing
Performative video
Performative photography
(Please refer to list of case studies)
Performing the Self
bull Gary Hill ldquoI want to dialog with my mental process consciously self-consciouslyrdquo [Art + Performance p 186-7]
bull Working with no preconceived images the work is more the process of performance and fictionalizationhellip
Photo Voice
Participatory Action Research
Three examples
-women in Yunnan
-women in Guantamela
-children and the disabled
Work samples
Works by Linda Lai
One Take (2003)
Door Game (2005)
- SM6305 Media art theory amp practice
- language as enunciation
- Revisionist views on language
- Slide 4
- Revisionist views on language a summary
- The changing locations of meaning-makinghellip
- The importance of meaning-making
- Performativity
- Performativity amp Deconstruction Jacques Derrida
- Performativity-Derrida-Differance
- Performativity-Derrida-Writing
- Performativity-Derrida-Deconstruction
- Performativity Judith Butler
- Performativity Judith Butler Reading Writing and Performing
- Slide 15
- Slide 16
- Slide 17
- Slide 18
- Spaces of Writing ldquoPerformative Writingrdquo
- ldquoPerformative writingrdquo
- ldquoPerformative Writingrdquo
- Slide 22
- Performativity in creative work may highlight the following
- Slide 24
- Performing the Self
- Photo Voice
- Work samples
-
Performativity Judith Butler Reading Writing and Performing
Basis (of her ldquopolitics of writingrdquo)
bull Butlerrsquos position as critical intellectual
the commitment to engage in questioning set norms and ldquobasicrdquo assumptions
(comparable and related to)
bull Michel Foucault 米契 福柯rsquo s ldquopolitics of discomfortrdquo designed to estrange and upset
Performativity Judith Butler Reading Writing and Performing
Performing 抒演
to effectuate realness
to engage in concrete action
hellipto the degree that it resists settled reading
ldquoRadical re-significationrdquo basis for intervention in the form of creative activities
[See Paris is Burning on video]
Performativity Judith Butler
Reading and performing
[see Paris is Burning on video]
There is NO STABLE IDENTITYonly the materiality of the body
没有稳定的身份只有身体的物质性
Spaces of Writing ldquoPerformative Writingrdquo
Performative writing -- an impetus to naming
THREE sources[Nietzsche and Wittgenstein]bull Derridabull Judith Butlerbull Literary works Laurence Sterne James Joyce Samue
l Beckett the American ldquolanguage poetsrdquo such as Robert Creeley Ron Silliman Rosemary Waldrop and Lyn Heijinian
ldquoPerformative writingrdquo
bull Writing is not a functional tool
bull Writing is not for the sake of the ideas conveyed
bull The ldquomeaningsrdquo of writing is not in its content but in the act itself
bull Only the real present tense of writing and the continuous act of writing make writing a purposeful activity
ldquoPerformative Writingrdquo
Writing involves power and control
A performance that engages with language necessarily comes face to face with power
Performative writing is often politically charged although the act itself is to engage with forms
ldquoPerformative Writingrdquo
bull A work with performative character often begins with citing or setting up a specific situation not with the burden of meanings and purposes It often leaves open room for new discoveries to which re-strategizing is required along the way
[compare this to the ldquopoetics of discoveryrdquo 發現的詩學 as opposed to the ldquopoetics of significationrdquo 象徵的詩學 ]
bull The conventional boundaries between or the separation of pre-production production post-production reception has to be challenged
Performativity in creative work may highlight the following
bull Undermines the idea of ldquocompleted-nessrdquo of a work therersquos NO clear demarcation or definitive moment for a fully finished work There is only a deliberate even arbitrary drawing to a close of a self-conscious creative process for a specific reason
bull Ultimate meanings are NOT pre-determined even though specific points of intervention are prescribed
gtFinal meanings donrsquot exist before the beginning of the work gtMeanings are generated along the process of the evolvement of the work the result of discovery rather than planning
Performative Writing
Performative video
Performative photography
(Please refer to list of case studies)
Performing the Self
bull Gary Hill ldquoI want to dialog with my mental process consciously self-consciouslyrdquo [Art + Performance p 186-7]
bull Working with no preconceived images the work is more the process of performance and fictionalizationhellip
Photo Voice
Participatory Action Research
Three examples
-women in Yunnan
-women in Guantamela
-children and the disabled
Work samples
Works by Linda Lai
One Take (2003)
Door Game (2005)
- SM6305 Media art theory amp practice
- language as enunciation
- Revisionist views on language
- Slide 4
- Revisionist views on language a summary
- The changing locations of meaning-makinghellip
- The importance of meaning-making
- Performativity
- Performativity amp Deconstruction Jacques Derrida
- Performativity-Derrida-Differance
- Performativity-Derrida-Writing
- Performativity-Derrida-Deconstruction
- Performativity Judith Butler
- Performativity Judith Butler Reading Writing and Performing
- Slide 15
- Slide 16
- Slide 17
- Slide 18
- Spaces of Writing ldquoPerformative Writingrdquo
- ldquoPerformative writingrdquo
- ldquoPerformative Writingrdquo
- Slide 22
- Performativity in creative work may highlight the following
- Slide 24
- Performing the Self
- Photo Voice
- Work samples
-
Performativity Judith Butler Reading Writing and Performing
Performing 抒演
to effectuate realness
to engage in concrete action
hellipto the degree that it resists settled reading
ldquoRadical re-significationrdquo basis for intervention in the form of creative activities
[See Paris is Burning on video]
Performativity Judith Butler
Reading and performing
[see Paris is Burning on video]
There is NO STABLE IDENTITYonly the materiality of the body
没有稳定的身份只有身体的物质性
Spaces of Writing ldquoPerformative Writingrdquo
Performative writing -- an impetus to naming
THREE sources[Nietzsche and Wittgenstein]bull Derridabull Judith Butlerbull Literary works Laurence Sterne James Joyce Samue
l Beckett the American ldquolanguage poetsrdquo such as Robert Creeley Ron Silliman Rosemary Waldrop and Lyn Heijinian
ldquoPerformative writingrdquo
bull Writing is not a functional tool
bull Writing is not for the sake of the ideas conveyed
bull The ldquomeaningsrdquo of writing is not in its content but in the act itself
bull Only the real present tense of writing and the continuous act of writing make writing a purposeful activity
ldquoPerformative Writingrdquo
Writing involves power and control
A performance that engages with language necessarily comes face to face with power
Performative writing is often politically charged although the act itself is to engage with forms
ldquoPerformative Writingrdquo
bull A work with performative character often begins with citing or setting up a specific situation not with the burden of meanings and purposes It often leaves open room for new discoveries to which re-strategizing is required along the way
[compare this to the ldquopoetics of discoveryrdquo 發現的詩學 as opposed to the ldquopoetics of significationrdquo 象徵的詩學 ]
bull The conventional boundaries between or the separation of pre-production production post-production reception has to be challenged
Performativity in creative work may highlight the following
bull Undermines the idea of ldquocompleted-nessrdquo of a work therersquos NO clear demarcation or definitive moment for a fully finished work There is only a deliberate even arbitrary drawing to a close of a self-conscious creative process for a specific reason
bull Ultimate meanings are NOT pre-determined even though specific points of intervention are prescribed
gtFinal meanings donrsquot exist before the beginning of the work gtMeanings are generated along the process of the evolvement of the work the result of discovery rather than planning
Performative Writing
Performative video
Performative photography
(Please refer to list of case studies)
Performing the Self
bull Gary Hill ldquoI want to dialog with my mental process consciously self-consciouslyrdquo [Art + Performance p 186-7]
bull Working with no preconceived images the work is more the process of performance and fictionalizationhellip
Photo Voice
Participatory Action Research
Three examples
-women in Yunnan
-women in Guantamela
-children and the disabled
Work samples
Works by Linda Lai
One Take (2003)
Door Game (2005)
- SM6305 Media art theory amp practice
- language as enunciation
- Revisionist views on language
- Slide 4
- Revisionist views on language a summary
- The changing locations of meaning-makinghellip
- The importance of meaning-making
- Performativity
- Performativity amp Deconstruction Jacques Derrida
- Performativity-Derrida-Differance
- Performativity-Derrida-Writing
- Performativity-Derrida-Deconstruction
- Performativity Judith Butler
- Performativity Judith Butler Reading Writing and Performing
- Slide 15
- Slide 16
- Slide 17
- Slide 18
- Spaces of Writing ldquoPerformative Writingrdquo
- ldquoPerformative writingrdquo
- ldquoPerformative Writingrdquo
- Slide 22
- Performativity in creative work may highlight the following
- Slide 24
- Performing the Self
- Photo Voice
- Work samples
-
Performativity Judith Butler
Reading and performing
[see Paris is Burning on video]
There is NO STABLE IDENTITYonly the materiality of the body
没有稳定的身份只有身体的物质性
Spaces of Writing ldquoPerformative Writingrdquo
Performative writing -- an impetus to naming
THREE sources[Nietzsche and Wittgenstein]bull Derridabull Judith Butlerbull Literary works Laurence Sterne James Joyce Samue
l Beckett the American ldquolanguage poetsrdquo such as Robert Creeley Ron Silliman Rosemary Waldrop and Lyn Heijinian
ldquoPerformative writingrdquo
bull Writing is not a functional tool
bull Writing is not for the sake of the ideas conveyed
bull The ldquomeaningsrdquo of writing is not in its content but in the act itself
bull Only the real present tense of writing and the continuous act of writing make writing a purposeful activity
ldquoPerformative Writingrdquo
Writing involves power and control
A performance that engages with language necessarily comes face to face with power
Performative writing is often politically charged although the act itself is to engage with forms
ldquoPerformative Writingrdquo
bull A work with performative character often begins with citing or setting up a specific situation not with the burden of meanings and purposes It often leaves open room for new discoveries to which re-strategizing is required along the way
[compare this to the ldquopoetics of discoveryrdquo 發現的詩學 as opposed to the ldquopoetics of significationrdquo 象徵的詩學 ]
bull The conventional boundaries between or the separation of pre-production production post-production reception has to be challenged
Performativity in creative work may highlight the following
bull Undermines the idea of ldquocompleted-nessrdquo of a work therersquos NO clear demarcation or definitive moment for a fully finished work There is only a deliberate even arbitrary drawing to a close of a self-conscious creative process for a specific reason
bull Ultimate meanings are NOT pre-determined even though specific points of intervention are prescribed
gtFinal meanings donrsquot exist before the beginning of the work gtMeanings are generated along the process of the evolvement of the work the result of discovery rather than planning
Performative Writing
Performative video
Performative photography
(Please refer to list of case studies)
Performing the Self
bull Gary Hill ldquoI want to dialog with my mental process consciously self-consciouslyrdquo [Art + Performance p 186-7]
bull Working with no preconceived images the work is more the process of performance and fictionalizationhellip
Photo Voice
Participatory Action Research
Three examples
-women in Yunnan
-women in Guantamela
-children and the disabled
Work samples
Works by Linda Lai
One Take (2003)
Door Game (2005)
- SM6305 Media art theory amp practice
- language as enunciation
- Revisionist views on language
- Slide 4
- Revisionist views on language a summary
- The changing locations of meaning-makinghellip
- The importance of meaning-making
- Performativity
- Performativity amp Deconstruction Jacques Derrida
- Performativity-Derrida-Differance
- Performativity-Derrida-Writing
- Performativity-Derrida-Deconstruction
- Performativity Judith Butler
- Performativity Judith Butler Reading Writing and Performing
- Slide 15
- Slide 16
- Slide 17
- Slide 18
- Spaces of Writing ldquoPerformative Writingrdquo
- ldquoPerformative writingrdquo
- ldquoPerformative Writingrdquo
- Slide 22
- Performativity in creative work may highlight the following
- Slide 24
- Performing the Self
- Photo Voice
- Work samples
-
Spaces of Writing ldquoPerformative Writingrdquo
Performative writing -- an impetus to naming
THREE sources[Nietzsche and Wittgenstein]bull Derridabull Judith Butlerbull Literary works Laurence Sterne James Joyce Samue
l Beckett the American ldquolanguage poetsrdquo such as Robert Creeley Ron Silliman Rosemary Waldrop and Lyn Heijinian
ldquoPerformative writingrdquo
bull Writing is not a functional tool
bull Writing is not for the sake of the ideas conveyed
bull The ldquomeaningsrdquo of writing is not in its content but in the act itself
bull Only the real present tense of writing and the continuous act of writing make writing a purposeful activity
ldquoPerformative Writingrdquo
Writing involves power and control
A performance that engages with language necessarily comes face to face with power
Performative writing is often politically charged although the act itself is to engage with forms
ldquoPerformative Writingrdquo
bull A work with performative character often begins with citing or setting up a specific situation not with the burden of meanings and purposes It often leaves open room for new discoveries to which re-strategizing is required along the way
[compare this to the ldquopoetics of discoveryrdquo 發現的詩學 as opposed to the ldquopoetics of significationrdquo 象徵的詩學 ]
bull The conventional boundaries between or the separation of pre-production production post-production reception has to be challenged
Performativity in creative work may highlight the following
bull Undermines the idea of ldquocompleted-nessrdquo of a work therersquos NO clear demarcation or definitive moment for a fully finished work There is only a deliberate even arbitrary drawing to a close of a self-conscious creative process for a specific reason
bull Ultimate meanings are NOT pre-determined even though specific points of intervention are prescribed
gtFinal meanings donrsquot exist before the beginning of the work gtMeanings are generated along the process of the evolvement of the work the result of discovery rather than planning
Performative Writing
Performative video
Performative photography
(Please refer to list of case studies)
Performing the Self
bull Gary Hill ldquoI want to dialog with my mental process consciously self-consciouslyrdquo [Art + Performance p 186-7]
bull Working with no preconceived images the work is more the process of performance and fictionalizationhellip
Photo Voice
Participatory Action Research
Three examples
-women in Yunnan
-women in Guantamela
-children and the disabled
Work samples
Works by Linda Lai
One Take (2003)
Door Game (2005)
- SM6305 Media art theory amp practice
- language as enunciation
- Revisionist views on language
- Slide 4
- Revisionist views on language a summary
- The changing locations of meaning-makinghellip
- The importance of meaning-making
- Performativity
- Performativity amp Deconstruction Jacques Derrida
- Performativity-Derrida-Differance
- Performativity-Derrida-Writing
- Performativity-Derrida-Deconstruction
- Performativity Judith Butler
- Performativity Judith Butler Reading Writing and Performing
- Slide 15
- Slide 16
- Slide 17
- Slide 18
- Spaces of Writing ldquoPerformative Writingrdquo
- ldquoPerformative writingrdquo
- ldquoPerformative Writingrdquo
- Slide 22
- Performativity in creative work may highlight the following
- Slide 24
- Performing the Self
- Photo Voice
- Work samples
-
ldquoPerformative writingrdquo
bull Writing is not a functional tool
bull Writing is not for the sake of the ideas conveyed
bull The ldquomeaningsrdquo of writing is not in its content but in the act itself
bull Only the real present tense of writing and the continuous act of writing make writing a purposeful activity
ldquoPerformative Writingrdquo
Writing involves power and control
A performance that engages with language necessarily comes face to face with power
Performative writing is often politically charged although the act itself is to engage with forms
ldquoPerformative Writingrdquo
bull A work with performative character often begins with citing or setting up a specific situation not with the burden of meanings and purposes It often leaves open room for new discoveries to which re-strategizing is required along the way
[compare this to the ldquopoetics of discoveryrdquo 發現的詩學 as opposed to the ldquopoetics of significationrdquo 象徵的詩學 ]
bull The conventional boundaries between or the separation of pre-production production post-production reception has to be challenged
Performativity in creative work may highlight the following
bull Undermines the idea of ldquocompleted-nessrdquo of a work therersquos NO clear demarcation or definitive moment for a fully finished work There is only a deliberate even arbitrary drawing to a close of a self-conscious creative process for a specific reason
bull Ultimate meanings are NOT pre-determined even though specific points of intervention are prescribed
gtFinal meanings donrsquot exist before the beginning of the work gtMeanings are generated along the process of the evolvement of the work the result of discovery rather than planning
Performative Writing
Performative video
Performative photography
(Please refer to list of case studies)
Performing the Self
bull Gary Hill ldquoI want to dialog with my mental process consciously self-consciouslyrdquo [Art + Performance p 186-7]
bull Working with no preconceived images the work is more the process of performance and fictionalizationhellip
Photo Voice
Participatory Action Research
Three examples
-women in Yunnan
-women in Guantamela
-children and the disabled
Work samples
Works by Linda Lai
One Take (2003)
Door Game (2005)
- SM6305 Media art theory amp practice
- language as enunciation
- Revisionist views on language
- Slide 4
- Revisionist views on language a summary
- The changing locations of meaning-makinghellip
- The importance of meaning-making
- Performativity
- Performativity amp Deconstruction Jacques Derrida
- Performativity-Derrida-Differance
- Performativity-Derrida-Writing
- Performativity-Derrida-Deconstruction
- Performativity Judith Butler
- Performativity Judith Butler Reading Writing and Performing
- Slide 15
- Slide 16
- Slide 17
- Slide 18
- Spaces of Writing ldquoPerformative Writingrdquo
- ldquoPerformative writingrdquo
- ldquoPerformative Writingrdquo
- Slide 22
- Performativity in creative work may highlight the following
- Slide 24
- Performing the Self
- Photo Voice
- Work samples
-
ldquoPerformative Writingrdquo
Writing involves power and control
A performance that engages with language necessarily comes face to face with power
Performative writing is often politically charged although the act itself is to engage with forms
ldquoPerformative Writingrdquo
bull A work with performative character often begins with citing or setting up a specific situation not with the burden of meanings and purposes It often leaves open room for new discoveries to which re-strategizing is required along the way
[compare this to the ldquopoetics of discoveryrdquo 發現的詩學 as opposed to the ldquopoetics of significationrdquo 象徵的詩學 ]
bull The conventional boundaries between or the separation of pre-production production post-production reception has to be challenged
Performativity in creative work may highlight the following
bull Undermines the idea of ldquocompleted-nessrdquo of a work therersquos NO clear demarcation or definitive moment for a fully finished work There is only a deliberate even arbitrary drawing to a close of a self-conscious creative process for a specific reason
bull Ultimate meanings are NOT pre-determined even though specific points of intervention are prescribed
gtFinal meanings donrsquot exist before the beginning of the work gtMeanings are generated along the process of the evolvement of the work the result of discovery rather than planning
Performative Writing
Performative video
Performative photography
(Please refer to list of case studies)
Performing the Self
bull Gary Hill ldquoI want to dialog with my mental process consciously self-consciouslyrdquo [Art + Performance p 186-7]
bull Working with no preconceived images the work is more the process of performance and fictionalizationhellip
Photo Voice
Participatory Action Research
Three examples
-women in Yunnan
-women in Guantamela
-children and the disabled
Work samples
Works by Linda Lai
One Take (2003)
Door Game (2005)
- SM6305 Media art theory amp practice
- language as enunciation
- Revisionist views on language
- Slide 4
- Revisionist views on language a summary
- The changing locations of meaning-makinghellip
- The importance of meaning-making
- Performativity
- Performativity amp Deconstruction Jacques Derrida
- Performativity-Derrida-Differance
- Performativity-Derrida-Writing
- Performativity-Derrida-Deconstruction
- Performativity Judith Butler
- Performativity Judith Butler Reading Writing and Performing
- Slide 15
- Slide 16
- Slide 17
- Slide 18
- Spaces of Writing ldquoPerformative Writingrdquo
- ldquoPerformative writingrdquo
- ldquoPerformative Writingrdquo
- Slide 22
- Performativity in creative work may highlight the following
- Slide 24
- Performing the Self
- Photo Voice
- Work samples
-
ldquoPerformative Writingrdquo
bull A work with performative character often begins with citing or setting up a specific situation not with the burden of meanings and purposes It often leaves open room for new discoveries to which re-strategizing is required along the way
[compare this to the ldquopoetics of discoveryrdquo 發現的詩學 as opposed to the ldquopoetics of significationrdquo 象徵的詩學 ]
bull The conventional boundaries between or the separation of pre-production production post-production reception has to be challenged
Performativity in creative work may highlight the following
bull Undermines the idea of ldquocompleted-nessrdquo of a work therersquos NO clear demarcation or definitive moment for a fully finished work There is only a deliberate even arbitrary drawing to a close of a self-conscious creative process for a specific reason
bull Ultimate meanings are NOT pre-determined even though specific points of intervention are prescribed
gtFinal meanings donrsquot exist before the beginning of the work gtMeanings are generated along the process of the evolvement of the work the result of discovery rather than planning
Performative Writing
Performative video
Performative photography
(Please refer to list of case studies)
Performing the Self
bull Gary Hill ldquoI want to dialog with my mental process consciously self-consciouslyrdquo [Art + Performance p 186-7]
bull Working with no preconceived images the work is more the process of performance and fictionalizationhellip
Photo Voice
Participatory Action Research
Three examples
-women in Yunnan
-women in Guantamela
-children and the disabled
Work samples
Works by Linda Lai
One Take (2003)
Door Game (2005)
- SM6305 Media art theory amp practice
- language as enunciation
- Revisionist views on language
- Slide 4
- Revisionist views on language a summary
- The changing locations of meaning-makinghellip
- The importance of meaning-making
- Performativity
- Performativity amp Deconstruction Jacques Derrida
- Performativity-Derrida-Differance
- Performativity-Derrida-Writing
- Performativity-Derrida-Deconstruction
- Performativity Judith Butler
- Performativity Judith Butler Reading Writing and Performing
- Slide 15
- Slide 16
- Slide 17
- Slide 18
- Spaces of Writing ldquoPerformative Writingrdquo
- ldquoPerformative writingrdquo
- ldquoPerformative Writingrdquo
- Slide 22
- Performativity in creative work may highlight the following
- Slide 24
- Performing the Self
- Photo Voice
- Work samples
-
Performativity in creative work may highlight the following
bull Undermines the idea of ldquocompleted-nessrdquo of a work therersquos NO clear demarcation or definitive moment for a fully finished work There is only a deliberate even arbitrary drawing to a close of a self-conscious creative process for a specific reason
bull Ultimate meanings are NOT pre-determined even though specific points of intervention are prescribed
gtFinal meanings donrsquot exist before the beginning of the work gtMeanings are generated along the process of the evolvement of the work the result of discovery rather than planning
Performative Writing
Performative video
Performative photography
(Please refer to list of case studies)
Performing the Self
bull Gary Hill ldquoI want to dialog with my mental process consciously self-consciouslyrdquo [Art + Performance p 186-7]
bull Working with no preconceived images the work is more the process of performance and fictionalizationhellip
Photo Voice
Participatory Action Research
Three examples
-women in Yunnan
-women in Guantamela
-children and the disabled
Work samples
Works by Linda Lai
One Take (2003)
Door Game (2005)
- SM6305 Media art theory amp practice
- language as enunciation
- Revisionist views on language
- Slide 4
- Revisionist views on language a summary
- The changing locations of meaning-makinghellip
- The importance of meaning-making
- Performativity
- Performativity amp Deconstruction Jacques Derrida
- Performativity-Derrida-Differance
- Performativity-Derrida-Writing
- Performativity-Derrida-Deconstruction
- Performativity Judith Butler
- Performativity Judith Butler Reading Writing and Performing
- Slide 15
- Slide 16
- Slide 17
- Slide 18
- Spaces of Writing ldquoPerformative Writingrdquo
- ldquoPerformative writingrdquo
- ldquoPerformative Writingrdquo
- Slide 22
- Performativity in creative work may highlight the following
- Slide 24
- Performing the Self
- Photo Voice
- Work samples
-
Performative Writing
Performative video
Performative photography
(Please refer to list of case studies)
Performing the Self
bull Gary Hill ldquoI want to dialog with my mental process consciously self-consciouslyrdquo [Art + Performance p 186-7]
bull Working with no preconceived images the work is more the process of performance and fictionalizationhellip
Photo Voice
Participatory Action Research
Three examples
-women in Yunnan
-women in Guantamela
-children and the disabled
Work samples
Works by Linda Lai
One Take (2003)
Door Game (2005)
- SM6305 Media art theory amp practice
- language as enunciation
- Revisionist views on language
- Slide 4
- Revisionist views on language a summary
- The changing locations of meaning-makinghellip
- The importance of meaning-making
- Performativity
- Performativity amp Deconstruction Jacques Derrida
- Performativity-Derrida-Differance
- Performativity-Derrida-Writing
- Performativity-Derrida-Deconstruction
- Performativity Judith Butler
- Performativity Judith Butler Reading Writing and Performing
- Slide 15
- Slide 16
- Slide 17
- Slide 18
- Spaces of Writing ldquoPerformative Writingrdquo
- ldquoPerformative writingrdquo
- ldquoPerformative Writingrdquo
- Slide 22
- Performativity in creative work may highlight the following
- Slide 24
- Performing the Self
- Photo Voice
- Work samples
-
Performing the Self
bull Gary Hill ldquoI want to dialog with my mental process consciously self-consciouslyrdquo [Art + Performance p 186-7]
bull Working with no preconceived images the work is more the process of performance and fictionalizationhellip
Photo Voice
Participatory Action Research
Three examples
-women in Yunnan
-women in Guantamela
-children and the disabled
Work samples
Works by Linda Lai
One Take (2003)
Door Game (2005)
- SM6305 Media art theory amp practice
- language as enunciation
- Revisionist views on language
- Slide 4
- Revisionist views on language a summary
- The changing locations of meaning-makinghellip
- The importance of meaning-making
- Performativity
- Performativity amp Deconstruction Jacques Derrida
- Performativity-Derrida-Differance
- Performativity-Derrida-Writing
- Performativity-Derrida-Deconstruction
- Performativity Judith Butler
- Performativity Judith Butler Reading Writing and Performing
- Slide 15
- Slide 16
- Slide 17
- Slide 18
- Spaces of Writing ldquoPerformative Writingrdquo
- ldquoPerformative writingrdquo
- ldquoPerformative Writingrdquo
- Slide 22
- Performativity in creative work may highlight the following
- Slide 24
- Performing the Self
- Photo Voice
- Work samples
-
Photo Voice
Participatory Action Research
Three examples
-women in Yunnan
-women in Guantamela
-children and the disabled
Work samples
Works by Linda Lai
One Take (2003)
Door Game (2005)
- SM6305 Media art theory amp practice
- language as enunciation
- Revisionist views on language
- Slide 4
- Revisionist views on language a summary
- The changing locations of meaning-makinghellip
- The importance of meaning-making
- Performativity
- Performativity amp Deconstruction Jacques Derrida
- Performativity-Derrida-Differance
- Performativity-Derrida-Writing
- Performativity-Derrida-Deconstruction
- Performativity Judith Butler
- Performativity Judith Butler Reading Writing and Performing
- Slide 15
- Slide 16
- Slide 17
- Slide 18
- Spaces of Writing ldquoPerformative Writingrdquo
- ldquoPerformative writingrdquo
- ldquoPerformative Writingrdquo
- Slide 22
- Performativity in creative work may highlight the following
- Slide 24
- Performing the Self
- Photo Voice
- Work samples
-
Work samples
Works by Linda Lai
One Take (2003)
Door Game (2005)
- SM6305 Media art theory amp practice
- language as enunciation
- Revisionist views on language
- Slide 4
- Revisionist views on language a summary
- The changing locations of meaning-makinghellip
- The importance of meaning-making
- Performativity
- Performativity amp Deconstruction Jacques Derrida
- Performativity-Derrida-Differance
- Performativity-Derrida-Writing
- Performativity-Derrida-Deconstruction
- Performativity Judith Butler
- Performativity Judith Butler Reading Writing and Performing
- Slide 15
- Slide 16
- Slide 17
- Slide 18
- Spaces of Writing ldquoPerformative Writingrdquo
- ldquoPerformative writingrdquo
- ldquoPerformative Writingrdquo
- Slide 22
- Performativity in creative work may highlight the following
- Slide 24
- Performing the Self
- Photo Voice
- Work samples
-