Escaping from the “Establishment”: Performance as Method
2018.12.28 19:00 - 20:30 | Talks
This lecture will start with the canonical case of Italian futurism, providing the audience with a historical context of how performance emerged as a form of aesthetic resistance from the highly capitalized countries in Western Europe since the turn of the 20th century. Performance is deployed by the avant-garde artists to escape from or even fight against the establishment we call “modernity.”