ENGL 173 Lecture 13: English 173 week 7, 2
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What is performance: it is embodied, utilizes actor/audience relationship, it is always about calming space, it is ephemeral it does not last, you are either in the room or not, it invents the future. A performance is vulnerable, as the space/act of performance: invites looking, aims to create sense of public solitude, leaves the performer subject to injury and/or criticism. Mother takes on definition of the theatre/performance: collective performance of bodies, body (one who acts) + message + observers (unwilling)/ overtime. An actor is seen here as a culture worker means to help society work on its problems with tribalism in a time that it prevails all over the world. Created from a specific body of archived material. Values content over form: language and character over plot and spectacle, points of view over narrative, emotional truths over factual ones.
