The presence of the past: temporality, ontology, and the prehistory of performance
Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: While the ontology of performance remains contested between mandates of essential disappearance and essential persistence, the theories of performance’s temporality remain underdeveloped. This paper utilizes a limit-case of performance criticism—Paleolithic cave art—as a means of examining alternative temporalities and ontologies of performance made possible through new materialist and posthumanist frameworks.
Source: Text and Performance Quarterly
Author: Travis Brisini
Institution: Louisiana State University
Language: English
Subfield: Cultural Studies
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W4402414709