Erving Goffman was interested in the presentation of self in everyday life, how theatrical performance can be a metaphor of the role-playing people do all the time. He defines performance as "all the activity of an individual which occurs during a period marked by his continuous presence before a particular set of observers and which has some influence on the observers" (The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, 22).
Maria Abramovic retrospective at MoMA in 2010
Abramovic makes a distinction between performance and theater, saying that performance is "real" and theater is, essentially, artifice because it is rehearsed.
Abramovic on body art and Imponderabilia
Richard Bauman: the sense of an action carried out for someone, even if the audience is oneself
Performance necessitates a consciousness of doubleness, in which the execution of the action is compared mentally to an ideal.
In this way, we can say performance involves seeming and being.
"IS" and "AS" performance
Maria Abramovic retrospective at MoMA in 2010
Abramovic makes a distinction between performance and theater, saying that performance is "real" and theater is, essentially, artifice because it is rehearsed.
Abramovic on body art and Imponderabilia
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