Paradoxes do Archiving Performance: Tino Sehgal's Constructed Situations and Hand Ulrich Obrist's Interview Project

! ! ! ! !!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ! ! Disse a ion Mas e C ossways in Cul u al Na a i es Pa adoxes o A chi ing Pe o mance: Tino Sehgal's Cons uc ed Si ua ions and Hans Ul ich Ob is 's In e iew P ojec Supe ision: D . Cláudia Madei a (Uni e sidade No a de Lisboa) D . Amanda Boe zkes (Uni e si y o Guelph) S uden : Isabel Rod igues da Cos a C ossways in Cul u al Na a i es Da e: 20 June 2016 ! 2! I, Isabel Rod igues da Cos a, he eby ce i y ha his disse a ion, which is 1977 wo ds in leng h, has been w i en by me, ha i is a eco d o wo k ca ied ou by me, and ha i has no been submi ed in any p e ious applica ion o a highe deg ee. All sen ences o passages quo ed in his disse a ion om o he people's wo k (wi h o wi hou i ial changes) ha e been placed wi hin quo a ion ma ks, and speci ically acknowledged by e e ence o au ho , wo k and page. I unde s and ha plagia ism – he unacknowledged use o such passages – will be conside ed g ounds o ailu e in his disse a ion and, i se ious, in he deg ee p og amme as a whole. I also a i m ha , wi h he excep ion o he speci ic acknowledgemen s, hese answe s a e en i ely my own wo k. Signa u e o candida e.................... ! 3! Abs ac This disse a ion conce ns he p oblema ic o p ese ing pe o mance a . The epheme al na u e o pe o mance challenges he way in which a wo ks a e p ese ed and a chi ed in he museum con ex . Besides his on ological ea u e o pe o mance a , a ecen end in pe o mance a has eme ged which is capable o challenging he adi ional iew on and p ac ice o he a chi e. In he cen e o my disse a ion a e wo se ies o wo ks by Tino Sehgal and Hans Ul ich Ob is whose aes he ic s a egies e eal undamen ally di e en a i udes owa ds he p ese a ion o pe o mance. Despi e hei di e ences howe e , hey sha e an in ense p eoccupa ion wi h ques ions o documen a ion and a chi ing o he a wo k. I will show how hese wo ks deal wi h he (un)documen a ion o hei own wo k and, o a ce ain ex en , how hey sel -a chi e hemsel es. Mo e speci ically, I will show how hey p oduce an objec o pe o mance a capable o ope a ing wi hin he a chi e and he eby possibly challenging and ans o ming i . In essence, his disse a ion will add ess he way in which ecen pe o mance con ibu es o he ( e)de ini ion o he objec o pe o mance in pa icula and a in gene al and i s possible modes o exis ence in ime and space beyond he classical unde s andings o bo h a and i s a e li e. ! 4! Table o Con en Chap e One I In oduc ion……………………………………………………… 5 II Will o A chi e………………………………………………..…. 8 III The Pa adoxes o he P esen ………………………………… 11 ! Chap e Two I Cons uc ed Si ua ions……………………………………………15 II Expanded Si ua ion……………………………………………....23 III The Body as A chi e……………………………………………32 IV In e iew P ojec ………………………………………………...34 V In ini e Con e sa ions……………………………………………47 VI Looking Fo wa d: The A chi e o he Fu u e…………………..52 Chap e Th ee I Pe o mance A e li es……………………………………….…..54 II Conclusion……………………………………………………….65 Bibliog aphy ……………………………………………………….69 Online Sou ces………………………………………………….......73 Appendix…………………………………………………………...74 ! 5! Chap e One I In oduc ion O e he las hi y yea s pe o mance a has been mo e and mo e in eg a ed in o a p og ams whe he in museums, galle ies o cul u al cen e s. Besides al eady exis ing pe o mances being shown, new wo ks o a we e commissioned o he p og am o exhibi ions o as an indi idual show in he museum o galle y space. A leas since he la e 1970s, pe o mance became an essen ial pa o hea e and dance es i als and wi h he beginning o he 21s cen u y o all kinds o in e disciplina y es i als ac oss and e en beyond he ield o he a s. Analysing hese a p og ams and cu a o ial wo ks helps us o unde s and in which way pe o mance aes he ics has been app oached and e en ually amed by aes he ic and cul u al ins i u ions. These app oaches esul ed om expe iencing pe o mance a e en s and w i ing abou he ma e ial p ese ed in he a e ma h o hese e en s, such as ex s, ape- and ideo- eco dings, pho og aphs e c. Academic schola ship and he wo k o a is s and cu a o s who exhibi ed o adap ed hese wo ks in new con ex s helped u he o shape hese app oaches. A qui e ecen in e es in pe o mance a as a ield o s udy has p o oked many schola s o hink abou he p oblem o i s p ese a ion. Add essing he p oblema ic o he documen a ion o he e en o he elabo a ion o ma e ial ha comes ou o hese e en s, mos s udies call o a empo al app oach o pe o mance a . A e he aces le by he pe o mance capable o ex end i s pe o ma i i y? Is p esen i ica ion he mos impo an o e en he exclusi e ac o a s ake in he pe o ma i e e en ? I no , wha could be he ole o pas and u u e in ega ds o he pe o ma i e momen ? These deba es can be loca ed ei he in museological ! 6! and academic con ex s o in a is ic p ac ice as such. This disse a ion will conside ecen pe o mance p ac ice in ega ds o his p oblema ic. I will analyze wo se ies o wo ks ha challenge he way in which he his o y o pe o mance has been w i en. The i s se ies is called Cons uc ed Si ua ions, he ensemble o he wo k o pe o mance a is Tino Sehgal. The second is en i led In e iew P ojec which is a monumen al p ojec o in e iews wi h all kinds o cul u al wo ke s ealized by he cu a o Hans-Ul ich Ob is . Bo h p ojec s ha e been unning o a long pe iod o ime; Cons uc ed Si ua ions since 1999 and In e iew P ojec since he beginning o he 1990. Al hough bo h a is s don’ claim hei wo k o be amed wi hin he scope o pe o mance a , bo h wo ks will be conside ed he e as pe o mances. Wha hese p ojec s ha e in common is a e y in ense p eoccupa ion wi h hei documen a ion and p ese a ion. Howe e , he wo ks ake on adical di e en ways o documen hei wo k; while Tino Sehgal p ohibi s all kind o documen a ion o his pe o mances, Hans-Ul ich Ob is documen s his own e en s while he is pe o ming, ans o ming his documen a ion in o new objec s ha become pa o his wo k. In my analysis, I will look a he way in which bo h wo ks challenge he a chi e, a guing ha mo e han jus pa icipa ing in he p ocess o a chi ing, bo h wo ks aes he ics' ake as an in eg al pa o hei wo k a p oposal o a new way o a chi ing. I will y o p oo ha bo h wo ks may con ibu e o a new de ini ion o he on ology o pe o mance, which includes a b oade de ini ion o i s cen al objec ( he ac ual pe o mance as e en ) – an objec ha can exis and ope a e wi hin he a chi e. Assuming hese possibili ies is o posi ion my a gumen agains wha has been a gued o be he only on ological u h o pe o mance a – ha i exis s me ely in he p esen momen and ha i s epheme al ma e ial esul s om no hing else bu he ‘encoun e ’ be ween human bodies. ! 7! Using he c i ical con ibu ions by Paul Auslande , Amelia Jones and Rebecca Schneide , I will a gue ha pe o mance a emains in i s aces. To ci cums an ia e his poin u he I will d aw om he ecen p oposi ion o And é Lepecki and Ad ian Hea h ield ha he objec o pe o mance a doesn’ become dea h a e i s ac -ness. The disse a ion is di ided in h ee chap e s. Chap e one deploys in a b oade pe spec i e he cha ac e is ics o he ecen mo e o pe o mance a owa ds he a chi e. I also in oduces c ucial no ions o pe o mance heo y ha will be used in his disse a ion as well as e e ences o he au ho s and concep s ha will be used. Chap e wo ocuses on he analysis o he se ies o a wo ks by Sehgal and Ob is . The analysis o hese wo ks is in i sel di ided in o h ee pa s. The i s pa unde akes a hick desc ip ion o he wo ks in ela ion o he opic o pe o mance p ese a ion. The second is an in es iga ion o hei speci ic aes he ic s a egies. My aim he e will be o show how he e hical implica ions on he documen a ion o hei wo k con ibu e o he discussion on p ese ing and collec ing pe o mance a . The hi d is a p o isional conclusion on he new ways o a chi ing bo h p ojec s p opose. In he las chap e , I will compa e how bo h wo ks ex end hemsel es in o hei a e li es. I will p opose ha bo h wo ks p ojec he a e li es o hei objec in o he a chi e as a way o challenging he ins i u ional bounda ies ha in ol e selec ion, o ganiza ion, a chi ing and, ul ima ely, he making o pe o mance his o y. In essence, wha will be p oposed in his disse a ion is a e alua ion o he “objec o pe o mance a ” by unde s anding he way in which his objec , in hese wo se ies o wo ks, is capable o con ibu e ac i ely o he making o i s own his o y. ! 8! II The Will o A chi e 1 F om he mani old examples, I will only men ion wo o a gue o he ele ance o he high con empo a y in e es in p ese ing pe o mance. Since 2008, he Ame ican cho eog aphe Julie Tolen ino has been pe o ming he ongoing p ojec “The Sky Remains he Same,” a pe o mance ha consis s o e-enac men s o pas pe o mances. Tolen ino in i es he au ho s o he wo ks she wan s o ep oduce and asks hem o each he how o pe o m hem, in o de o “a chi e” hei wo ks in he own body. She has been ep oducing wo ks o he a is s Ron A hey, F anco B, Da id Rousse e and Da id Do man. In 2011, Sa a Wookey ounded “ eDance”, a pla o m ha unc ions as an a chi e o e-enac ed wo ks o enowned cho eog aphe s o he Judson Dance Thea e e a, pe o med by ano he gene a ion o dance a is s. This pla o m ha bo s li e pe o mances, wo kshops and discussions wi h he aim o keeping some so o a chi al p ac ice ‘ali e’. Tackling he ques ion o p ese ing pe o mance in di e en ways, hese examples e eal wha And é Lepecki cha ac e izes o be he “will o a chi e”. In he las wen y yea s, he wish o p ese e “li e a ” has become mo e explici among pe o mance a is s. Also, mo e ecen ly, an inc easing numbe o es i als and con e ences ha e been dedica ed o he p ac ice o e-enac men s and pe o mances add essing he a chi e. Some examples a e he ongoing esea ch p ojec in Ta e Mode n en i led “Pe o mance a Ta e, Collec ing, A chi ing and Sha ing Pe o mance and he Pe o ma i e“ as well as New Museum's cycle o con e ences and p esen a ions in 2012 called “Pe o mance A chi ing Pe o mance” and e en he Kaai Thea e Fes i al in B ussels which ypically assembles he in e na ional a an -ga de !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 1 No ion p oposed by And é Lepecki in he essay “Body as A chi e: Will o e-enac and A e li es o Dances”, Dance Resea ch Jou nal, Vol. 42, 2010 ! 9! in pe o ma i e a s, dedica ed in 2010 a whole issue o he es i al, en i led “Re:Mo e”, o e-enac men s o dance and pe o mance. This u n owa ds he a chi e in pe o mance a has igge ed a sel - a chi ing end, which o e he las yea s has become mo e and mo e ecognized as an a p ac ice in i sel . This kind o p ac ice, as can be seen in he wo examples gi en abo e, explo es new ways o unde s anding he a chi e and, mo e impo an ly, ask he ques ions o how and why pe o mance should be echnologically documen ed, c i ically desc ibed and physically s o ed as an a chi al ma e ial. Maybe mo e han o he a o ms, pe o mance a has he abili y o complica e he w i ing o a his o y due o i s s ong dependence on physical and men al emnan s such as documen a ion, a chi es and memo ies. F equen ly, he agili y and epheme ali y o hese emnan s call in o ques ion he possibili y o a chi ing he wo k. As Amelia Jones a gues in ‘Unp edic able Tempo ali ies: Body and Pe o mance in A His o y’, pe o mance has he po en ial o “pu p essu e on how we w i e his o y, which has con en ionally depended on he p edic abili y o s a ic objec s ha a e nea ly a chi ed, on display, in o de o be iewed and e alua ed.”2 In opposi ion o o he a o ms ha p oduce ‘g aspable’ a objec s ha can be easily selec ed and a anged in an a chi e, pe o mance a p oduces an epheme al, slippe y objec , which makes i s classi ica ion and he e o e i s a chi ing di icul and o en a i s sigh impossible. O en seen as a eposi o y o memo ies and, in he con ex o a , as a eposi o y o bodies o wo k, he a chi e, has been mo e b oadly seen as a memo ial o ou cul u e. As De ida p oposes in his amous essay “A chi e Fe e ” (1994), he wo d a chi e, in i s o igin, co esponds o he G eek !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 2 Amelia Jones, “Unp edic able Tempo ali ies, The Body and Pe o mance in A His o y” in Pe o ming A chi es/A chi es o Pe o mance, Uni e si y o Copenhagen: Museum o Tusculanum, 2013, 53 ! 16! he ans o ma ion o e e yday li e. They we e con inced ha a should only exis o he pu pose o social and poli ical change. “The e is no Si ua ionis a , bu he e is Si ua ionis use o a .”12 Despi e his con o e sial ela ionship o a , Si ua ionis p ac ices we e de eloped ou o Dada and Su ealis expe imen s.13 I is commonly ag eed ha he SI con inued he a an -ga de explo a ions and hei a is ic me hods, wi h echniques such as dé i e and dé ou nemen . The i s , dé i e, (Fig. 1) o d i ing, consis s in andom walks a ound ci ies in which each pe o me sea ches o alea o y s imuli a ec ing hei i ine a y. The second, dé ou nemen , (Fig. 2) consis s in he e usal o o iginal c ea ions and in he belie ha e e y hing ha can be done and said has o be ein en ion o ein e p e a ion. These p ac ices we e undamen al o he o eg ounding o aes he ic possibili ies in pe o mance a in he 1960s, he 1970s and la e . In Sehgal’s wo k, we can obse e he di ec in luence o hese wo p ac ices. Dé i e can be ound in he aining o his in e p e e s ha a e asked o cons an ly e-map he pe o ma i e e en as i un olds. The s imuli gi en by he audience and he a mosphe e o he space guide hei ac ions. Dé ou nemen is ela ed o Sehgal’s quo idian aes he ics and his emphasis on e e yday ges u es, clo hes and mo emen s as he basis o his cho eog aphic c ea ion. His o ically, his can be ela ed o se e al g oups such as Judson Dance and S e e Pax on, and also Allan Kap ow e en s, he so-called ‘Happenings’.14 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 12 Guy Debo d, “Repo on he Cons uc ion o Si ua ions”, in Si ua ion, Whi echapel Galle y, London, 2005, 112 13 As Clai e Bishop makes clea in A i icial Hells: Pa icipa o y A and he Poli ics o Spec a o ship, in eali y, he ela ionship o SI o a was no always clea . The i s phase om 1957-62 is commonly ag eed o be he pe iod when he g oup was mos sympa he ic o a . Bu a e 1962 un il he end o he g oup in 1972, he g oup became inc easingly opposed o a . 14 Clai e Bishop, A i icial Hells: Pa icipa o y A and he Poli ics o Spec a o ship, Ve so, London, 2012, 175. ! 17! I we look a he beginning o Guy Debo d’s ex Repo on he Cons uc ion o Si ua ions, we can unde s and he simila i ies be ween he Si ua ionis s' and Sehgal’s si ua ions: “The cons uc ion o si ua ions begins beyond he uins o he mode n spec acle. I is easy o see how much he e y p inciple o he spec acle – non-in e en ion – is linked o he aliena ion o he old wo ld. […] The si ua ion is hus designed o be li ed by i s cons uc o s. The ole played by a passi e o me ely bi -pa ‘public’ mus cons an ly diminish, while ha played by hose canno be called ac o s, bu a he , in a new sense o he e m ‘li e s’, mus s eadily inc ease."15 I we subs i u e mode n spec acle o museum a he beginning o he quo e, we migh unco e he unc ion o Sehgal’s app op ia ion o Si ua ionis si ua ions. Bo h aim owa ds s eadily inc easing he pa icipa ion o he audience. Bo h claim ha a si ua ion should be played by i s own cons uc o s, he eby a oiding he sepa a ion be ween pe o me s and audience. In Cons uc ed Si ua ions, he ba ie be ween in e p e e s and audience is almos impe cep ible. This sepa a ion is ins ead be ween he ones amilia wi h he si ua ion and he ones who a e dealing wi h he si ua ion o he i s ime. Such is he case o These Associa ions (Fig. 3) pe o med o he i s ime a Ta e Mode n, London, in 2012. This piece consis s o mo e han i y in e p e e s o di e en ages a anged in he space, ac ing as i hey we e isi o s. In an in iguing way, hey a e all cho eog aphed. Only a e some ime, we unde s and ha he e is a pa e n in he way hey mo e h ough he space. This pa e n is no ixed in !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 15 Debo d, Cons uc ed Si ua ions, 110. ! 18! ad ance, bu wo ks as a game wi h ce ain ules he in e p e e s ha e o ollow. These ules wo k as a se o ins uc ions: “I se up hese i ual games wi h ela i ely simple ules in which a g oup o indi iduals ha e o wo k oge he . I is no like hey a e all ma ching in one di ec ion. I is mo e like oo ball.” 16 These ins uc ions play ou on a la ge scale in he space o he museum. This in e es o games can also be ound in wha Debo d calls play ulness. Jus i ying his way o cons uc ing si ua ions, he c i icizes indus ial design's p e e ence o unc ionalis p oduc s and o wa ds he dis up i e quali y o play ulness: “In ou ime, unc ionalism (an ine i able exp ession o echnological ad ance) is a emp ing en i ely o elimina e play. The pa isans o indus ial design complain ha hei objec s a e spoiled by people’s play ul endencies. (…) The only p og essi e way ou is o libe a e he endency owa d play elsewhe e, and on a la ge scale.” 17 Debo d a gues ha he only way o igh agains he commodi ica ion o goods is o c ea e si ua ions ha could “p omo e expe imen al o ms o a game o e olu ion”. 18 Fo he SI, he wo k on si ua ions was p ima ily concei ed o ind new ypes o play ulness and in e ac ion in o de o diminish he powe o he en e ainmen o isual images ha , acco ding o hem, was causing aliena ion in mass cul u e. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 16 Tino Sehgal. In e iew wi h S.T. The Economis , July, 2012. 17 Debo d, Cons uc ed Si ua ions, 111, 112 18 Debo d, Cons uc ed Si ua ions,112. ! 19! Sehgal’s wo k exposes a simila abili y o p oduce and dep oduce i sel . Dep oduc ion is no jus an ex e nal ac o , bu an essen ial elemen o he a wo k. When asked abou he ela ion o his wo k o dep oduc ion, Sehgal said in an in e iew wi h Tim G i in o A o um: “The eason I am in e es ed in he ans o ma ion o ac ions and he simul anei y o p oduc ion and dep oduc ion is because I hink ha he appea ance in Wes e n socie ies in he wen ie h cen u y o bo h an excess supply o he goods ha ul ill he basic human needs and mankind’s endange ing o he speci ic disposi ion o “na u e” in which human li e seem possible ende s he hegemony o he dominan mode o p oduc ion ques ionable (…) How could we p oduce hings ha , on he one hand, a en’ p oblema ic and, on he o he , a e mo e in e es ing o complex, o less s a ic.” 19 By ejec ing he e m pe o mance o desc ibe his wo k, Sehgal sees his wo k a he as isual a , since i is p esen ed in galle ies and museums and accessible a he same opening imes as o he isual a exhibi ions. His insis ence on c ea ing an epheme al objec ha is concei ed and p esen ed as a isual a wo k is in i sel a ges u e o econ igu a ion o he ame o he museum. Bu Sehgal’s ges u e goes beyond ques ioning he aes he ic ame o he museum. In his wo wo ks This is Good (2001) and This is Righ , (2003) Sehgal ques ions he ole o he museum and i s ela ionship wi h he a ma ke . In he i s pe o mance, he i le, i onically, ocuses a en ion on he end o pe o ma i e e en s in museums. The audience is aken by su p ise in he exhibi ion space when he museum gua ds s a o !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 19 Tino Sehgal. In e iew wi h Tim G i in, A o um, 2012 ! 20! pe o m a i id, synch onized dance. The second one, pe o med a F ieze A ai London, consis s o wo child en p esen ing Tino Sehgal's wo ks a ailable o pu chase. They show he pieces and deli e some in o ma ion abou hem, such as da e, edi ion numbe , p ice and also “e e y now and hen hey lashed wi h a bi o a -c i ical e minology.”20 Focusing on he ela ionship be ween museum and a ma ke in he piece This is Exchange (2003), p esen ed a he Venice Biennale 2005, Sehgal and his in e p e e s con on ed he isi o s wi h he o e o be asked se e al ques ions abou he a ma ke and o ge paid o hei answe s. The isi o s could hen choose o answe o no , bu no hing beyond he con e sa ion be ween in e p e e s and isi o s is shown. In ha way, he expec ed oles a e in e ed and he isi o s ake on he oles o consul an s. As Sehgal no es, he audience is “paid a ce ain amoun i hey deli e a p oduc . The p oduc is ha hey ell hei opinion on ma ke economy. They a e no opposi e o an objec which hey can hen in e p e o be subjec owa ds.”21 Sehgal’s esis ance o he p oduc ion o objec s is no necessa ily ela ed o a esis ance o he commodi ica ion o goods, al hough i may appea his way in a i s eading o his wo k. Sehgal's wo k is undocumen ed and i s lack o documen a ion is pa o he wo k i sel . His e usal o pic u es, ilm and cu a o ial ex s o any o he kind o ep oduc ion is an in eg al pa o he aes he ic ea u es o his wo k. He claims o ha e he memo y o his wo k ‘ma ked’ in he pa icipan s’ bodies and memo ies. In Unma ked: The Poli ics o Pe o mance (1993), Peggy Phelan a gues ha pe o mance in i s s ic on ological sense is non- ep oduc i e. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 20 Clai e Bishop, “No Pic u e Please: The A o Tino Sehgal”, A o um, May 2005 21 Tino Sehgal, In e iew wi h Hans-Ul ich Ob is , In e iew P ojec , Volume II, 838. ! 21! "Pe o mance’s only li e is in he p esen . Pe o mance canno be sa ed, eco ded, documen ed, o o he wise pa icipa e in he ci cula ion o ep esen a ions o ep esen a ion: once i does so, i becomes some hing o he han pe o mance." 22 Peggy Phelan’s con ibu ion o he esea ch on he p ese a ion o pe o mance a is conce ned wi h he e hical implica ions o w i ing abou epheme al e en s. Phelan sugges s ha he pe o ma i e e en only exis s whils i is happening. Acco ding o Phelan, he challenge o he a his o ian when w i ing on pe o mance a is o y o e-ma k he e en in he w i ing i sel . In his way, he ac o w i ing is cohe en wi h he disappea ance o he objec , ins ead o simula ing i s p ese a ion. She unde lines ha we mus emembe ha he ‘a e -e ec o disappea ance is he expe ience o subjec i i y i sel .’ The disappea ance is accoun ed o as a pa o he pe o ma i e e en and he ehicle ha ansla es i s absence in o subjec i i y. Tino Sehgal’s wo k has as i s undamen al elemen a magne ic ela ion be ween he p esen and he u u e. The disappea ance o he a wo k is bound up wi h i s pe o ma i e momen . As Sehgal a gues in an in e iew, his wo k p oduces and dep oduces i sel . The isibili y ha Sehgal gi es o i s disappea ance is e ealed h ough he discon inui y o he objec in i s ep oduc ion. In his way, he is like he a his o ian. Howe e , in a comple ely di e en way, Sehgal builds an a chi e o his wo k by encou aging he audience o con inue he pe o mance in hei memo ies o he e en . !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 22 Phelan, Unma ked: he Poli ics o Pe o mance, 148. ! 22! The impulse owa ds he in eg a ion o hese ea u es and expe iences in o a wo k is al eady e iden in he ea lies wo ks o Sehgal. One o his ea lies pe o mances is Twen y Minu es o he Twen y Cen u y (1999) whe e he pe o med naked and in ch onological succession he bi h and his o y o mode n dance by e-enac ing signa u e mo emen s o wen y impo an cho eog aphe s. This dimension o Sehgal’s a is ic con ibu ion can also be seen in he wo ks Ins ead o allowing some hing o ise up o you ace dancing B uce and Dan and o he hings (2000) and Kiss (2002). In Ins ead o allowing, one dance epea edly execu es he same mo emen s inco po a ing he mo emen om Dan G aham’s dual-sc een Supe -8 p ojec ion Roll, 1970, and B uce Nauman’s ideos Tony Sinking in o he Floo , Face up and Face Down and Elke Allowing he Floo o Rise Up o e He , Face Up, bo h om 1973. Kiss (Fig. 4) is a sculp u al wo k o wo in e p e e s ha a e e-enac ing he momen be o e and a e a kiss, e en ually esembling emb acing couples om his o ical wo ks o a such as Augus e Rodin’s, The Kiss (1889), Cons an in B âncusi’s The Kiss (1908), Gu s a Klim ’s (1907-8) and a ious Gus a e Coube pain ings om he 1860s. Sehgal does he opposi e o wha Peggy Phelan sugges s. In hese wo wo ks, he uses non-pe o ma i e a such as pain ing and ilm in o de o es age hei inhe en pe o ma i e possibili ies. By sub e ing he ma e ial possibili ies o hese wo ks, he exposes wha hey canno o e : he pe o ma i e quali y o he si ua ion hey sugges . Analysing he wo k o Sehgal, we a e emp ed o ead i only om he pe spec i e o a desi e o a egime o o al imma e iali y. Bu con a y o he poli ics o dema e ializa ion o he la e 1960s, whe e he p oduc ion o imma e ial a wo ks was conside ed an escape om a ’s ! 23! ela ionship o he ma ke and he museum, Sehgal does no a emp o p o ec his wo k om being sold o shown in spaces o he han museums o galle ies. His ela ionship wi h aes he ic ins i u ions is one o ex eme p oximi y. His ul ima e aim is o wo k wi h exis ing condi ions and con en ions and challenge hem om he inside. II Expanded Si ua ion In o de o unde s and his dimension o Sehgal’s wo k, we ha e o look mo e closely a his aes he ic s a egy. As I ha e said, Sehgal adop s and a icula es he SI echniques by in eg a ing hem in he space o he museum. As Jessica Mo gan, he cu a o o The Dakaslopous Collec ion in Ta e Mode n said in he con ex o he opening o his exhibi ion in 2012: “People will be doing hings wi h hei body, in pa allel wi h wha is going on in he ci y.”23 Jus like he SI p oposed o do in hei p ac ice o dé i e, Sehgal ies o g asp he en i onmen o he exhibi ion space and use wha happens spon aneously inside ha space as ma e ial ha cons i u es his si ua ions. Jus like he p ac i ione s o he dé i e, his in e p e e s a e old o be ex emely a en i e o he s imulus gi en by e e y hing ha is implica ed in he si ua ion, such as he pa icula space, he p esence and beha iou o he iewe s and he gene al en i onmen and a mosphe e gene a ed by hei mo emen . Thus, hei ask is o in eg a e and po en ia e ha s imulus by le ing i ans o m and e en ually conduc he si ua ion. These Associa ions is a good example o he en i onmen es ablished in he museum wo ks as a ‘nou ishing s uc u e’ o he si ua ion and, he e o e, o he e en . The piece was pe o med in he Tu bine Hall o Ta e Mode n in London, whe e a !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 23 Ta e Mode n. “Unile e Se ies Tino Sehgal“ h p://www. a e.o g.uk/wha s-on/ a e- mode n/exhibi ion/unile e -se ies- ino-sehgal-2012, Las Access 16 June, 2016. ! 24! a ie y o hese s imuli we e cons an ly being in eg a ed in he on-going pe o mance. The in eg a ion o hese s imuli occu s wi h he simple ges u e o he in e p e e s cap u ing he in o ma ion o he ambience in he hall. Acco ding o he space, i s a chi ec u e and i s unc ionali y as a ansi space, many o hese ‘s imuli’ came om he c owds queuing o en e he museum, he ga he ings o s uden s and ou is s ha spen hei ime a he en ance o he museum and he isi o s ha came o see he piece. Toge he , hese g oups o m an unexpec ed lux o people. The dynamics c ea ed by ha lux ( eloci y, quali y o mo emen e c.) o he bodies and objec s ha make up his si ua ion (which has been es ablished in he o e on o he pe o mance) a e wha cons i u e he ma e iali y and e en he objec hood o he wo k. I is impo an o no e ha human bodies (and wha hey do) a e wha Sehgal conside s he ma e ial o his wo k, so his lux o people ha is cons an ly mo ing in and ou o he galle y o he museum is maybe he cen al elemen o his pe o mance. “As my wo k e ol es, i is much mo e abou c ea ing a common si ua ion be ween he isi o o he iewe . O cou se he si ua ion is ini ia ed by people doing hings. The on ological s a us o going o say he same…bu i ’s oscilla ing be ween almos being he same and being di e en . The mo e my wo k e ol es, maybe he isi o e en knows mo e abou i , has mo e powe o e how he piece will de elop hen e en he in e p e e s” Tino Sehgal 24 A a i s glance, Sehgal’s wo k migh seem o subsc ibe o he p emises o ela ional aes he ics, since his i s conce n is he ela ionship es ablished be ween in e p e e s and audience. Bu , con a y o wha Nicolas Bou iaud a gues in Rela ional Aes he ics, whe e he p oposes a !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 24 Tino Sehgal, In e iew wi h Hans-Ul ich Ob is , In e iew P ojec , Volume II, 839 ! 25! new idea o o m ha is c ea ed in he dimension o in e -pe sonal ela ionships,25 Sehgal is sea ching o a o m ha eme ges om wi hin a si ua ion. The eby, ins ead o p oducing an ‘encoun e ’, a e m o en used in hea e and pe o mance heo y, e e ing p ima ily o he encoun e be ween human beings, Sehgal designs a ‘si ua ion’ in which se e al ela ional sphe es can be included. Thus, ins ead o me ely using he (in e - human) encoun e as an aes he ic possibili y, Sehgal explo es he aes he ics o he (mo e- han-human) si ua ion. Al hough Sehgal’s si ua ions ake place inside he museum, hey open hemsel es up o a ious o he sphe es including he gene al space and en i onmen , he s able and ansi o y objec s su ounding he in e p e e s and e en he mos ly hidden in as uc u e o he museum. In o he wo ds, Sehgal’s piece eaches ou o ha which condi ions and a ec s he piece om ou side: he space and en i onmen whe e i is p esen ed, he in e ac ion o human bodies and objec s and ul ima ely he s uc u e o he ins i u ion, i s ins i u ional se ing and i s o ganiza ional sys em. Wha seems o be a ameless s a egy a i s , glance, is a conscious cons uc ion o an a i icial ame, a cons uc ed si ua ion, ha challenges he ins u i ional ame. He e a pa allel could be made o he wo k o E ing Go man, F ame Analysis: An Essay on he O ganiza ion o Expe ience, in which he c ea es a model o obse e he accep ed social en i ies, such as he ela ions be ween indi iduals and o al ins i u ions. Fo Go man, ames a e he p incipals o o ganiza ion go e ning e en s. Sehgal’s si ua ions show a g ea simila i y wi h Go man's ames. On he one hand, hey ques ion he na u e o ela ionships be ween indi iduals and ins i u ions, on he o he hand, hey p ees ablish s able ules ha go e n he way in which !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 25 As Bou iaud a gues, i is an a o m “which akes being oge he as a cen al heme, he “encoun e “ be ween beholde and pic u e, and he collec i e elabo a ion o meaning.” Rela ional Aes he ics, P esses du Réel, 2002, 15 ! 32! p oduce an objec ha would esis he a ma ke by “s opping o exis ” a e i s p oduc ion, Sehgal’s con ibu ion o he a museum deba es o he wen y- i s cen u y goes beyond c i ical ges u e, and ins ead leans owa ds inding al e na i es. Sehgal's aes he ic si ua ion wo ks owa ds modi ying he a ec i e, pe cep ual and concep ual possibili ies o he a chi e. His pe o mances o eg ound and gene a e social ela ions ha c ea e he a chi e o his pieces and a e able o syn hesize a piece o his o y sha ed by he pa icipan s. They encou age deeply a ec i e expe iences ha some o he pa icipan s conside can lead o pe sonal and ins i u ional ans o ma ion. By aking pa in he a ma ke , Sehgal can s a egically change i om wi hin by p oposing an aes he ics ha o ces a change in he p ocedu es ollowed o exhibi , p ese e and acqui e he wo k. III Body as A chi e The space Sehgal opens up and closes in his si ua ional-based pe o mance is ha which only emains in i s absence. As i has been a gued, in pe o mance heo y, pe o mance canno eside in i s ma e ial aces so he e o e i disappea s. Bu Sehgal complica es he issue o emains as ma e ial because his aces a e all imb ica ed in he li e body. Sehgal sees he human body as pa o he ma e ial o which a si ua ion is made up. Assuming a complex se ing in which he bodies o bo h he in e p e e s and he iewe a e seen as ma e ial, his si ua ions in ol e wha su ounds he body’s encoun e by ac i ely in eg a ing i in he cons uc ion o he piece. Wha is being p oposed he e is ha in he se ies Cons uc ed Si ua ions, he body is explo ed om a ma e ialis ic pe spec i e in which ‘wha he body does’ is an in eg al pa o he piece, jus like any o he ma e ial. In answe o he c i icism o his wo k in which he was c i icized o e ishizing he body, Sehgal said: “you can’ e ishize he human body, ! 33! since e ishize means o anima e some hing, and you can’ anima e some hing which is al eady anima ed”.34 In his answe , Sehgal plays wi h a logical con adic ion; he human body is anima ed pe se. Sehgal uses i s po en iali y as ma e ial. In his wo k, he human body is ei he an epheme al objec in he momen o p oduc ion o he wo k and igh a e , in he momen o i s dep oduc ion, he body is a li ing es imony o he expe ience. This way, he ac ha he wo k is dep oduced does no make i s op exis ing; ins ead, because he e is no documen a ion, i is sa ed in he memo y o he bodies and ca ied ou in he memo y o he pa icipan s. “Somehow i exis s in my mind, in my body and he bodies o he people who know how o do i , and i also exis s in hei memo ies and o hose o he people who saw i .”35 Tino Sehgal’s p ac ice challenges he desi e o pe o mance o p ese e i sel . Besides he isible si ua ion, he encoun e o he bodies, Sehgal p oduces he dep oduc ion o his si ua ion. This dep oduc ion is achie ed by he in en ional undocumen a ion o he e en . A he same ime, he undocumen ed si ua ion does no s op o be he wo k. In his way, he wo ks owa ds disappea ance, as Peggy Phelan sugges s, bu wi hou in e e ing o p edic ing he momen in which he objec will inally be comple ely o go en. Since Cons uc ed Si ua ions is pe pe ua ed in isi o s’, pa icipan s’, in e p e e s’ and museum s a ’s memo y, i s objec disappea s when hei collec i e memo y s ops exis ing. The objec is he e o e ans o med in o, pe pe ua ed in and ca ied ou in he pa icipan s’ memo ies and desc ip ions o he e en . !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 34 See F ieze A Talk websi e: h p:// ieze ounda ion.o g/ alks/de ail/ ino-sehgal-in- con e sa ion-wi h-joe g-heise /. 35 Tino Sehgal, In e iew wi h Hans-Ul ich Ob is , In e iew P ojec , Volume II, 828 ! 34! IV In e iew P ojec As al eady men ioned in he in oduc ion, he wo se ies o wo ks analysed in his disse a ion en e ain adically opposed ela ionships wi h he a chi e. While Tino Sehgal e uses any kind o documen a ion o his wo k as a way o a oiding he p oduc ion o isual ma e ial ela ed o his p ac ice, Hans-Ul ich Ob is exhaus i ely documen s his in e iew pe o mances in o de o sa e he emains o wha has been said and o p oduce all kinds o new objec s on he basis o his ma e ial. Sehgal's p ojec is clea ly commi ed o wha he calls he dep oduc ion o pe o mance, whe eas Ob is makes a case o he in ensi ied documen a ion as pe o mance. The Swiss-bo n a cu a o s a ed he In e iew P ojec (Fig. 6) almos hi y yea s ago. His i s in e iews eme ged ou o equen s udio isi s o he a is s wi h whom he had s a ed o wo k. Ha ing obse ed a lack o his o ical ac s ega ding he p oduc ion o a p ocesses o e he 20 h cen u y, Ob is decided o in e iew aged p ac i ione s (a is s, cu a o s, scien is s, a chi ec s, designe s e c.) om he beginning o he cen u y. This on-going p ojec was called he Cen ena y P ojec and had as i s goal o in e iew he las gene a ion o c ea i e p ac i ione s ha ac ed in he second hal o he 20 h cen u y. Today, In e iew P ojec is an ex ensi e a chi e o mo e han 2,000 hou s o eco ded in e iews wi h a is s, bu also p ac i ione s om o he a eas such as w i e s, scien is s, enginee s, a chi ec s, ilmmake s, philosophe s and cu a o s. I has become an in e disciplina y a chi e ha exis s physically on a ious suppo s such as ideo, ex and ape eco ds. In e iew P ojec has been seen as a cu a o ial p ac ice in which he p ac ice o he in e iew has been explo ed as a medium o a ! 35! con e sa ional-based pe o mance. O e he las hi y yea s, his p ac ice o in e iewing s a ed o be in ensi ied and o ien ed in di e en ways, b anching i sel in o di e en ields o he han a s and c ea ing cycles o in e es . No icing a gap be ween he cu a o ial discussions o he 1990s and he his o y o cu a o ial p ac ices be o e ha , Ob is s a ed o in e iew a ious p ac i ione s o he 1960s o dig up he his o y o cu a ing om he 1960s o he p esen day. He in e iewed he p o agonis s o he mos signi ican cu a o ial wo ks o he 1960s such as Ha ald Szeeman, Anne d'Ha noncou , We ne Ho man and Lucy Lippa d. “The idea o hese in e iews was o s a a his o y o impo an cu a o ial posi ions in he 1960s (…) These pe sons (ac i e p ac i ione s) a e amilia wi h he his o y o wha came be o e hem. I mean Szeeman is comple ely amilia wi h Ha y G a Kessle , and Willem S andbe g is comple ely amilia wi h Alexande Do ne . Li le by li le, h ough in e iewing he p o agonis s o he 1960s, I go mo e insigh in he his o ical ac s.”36 His in e es , mo e han econs i u ing hese cu a o ial e en s, was o map he de elopmen o he cu a o ial ield by unde s anding he way in which exhibi ion models we e c ea ed. Since cu a ing is qui e a young ield, he wo k o Hans-Ul ich Ob is has been an eno mous con ibu ion o knowledge abou he p ac ice and abou i s his o ical e olu ion. As an example o his p ac ice, in his in e iew wi h he Swiss cu a o Ha ald !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 36 Hans Ul ich Ob is , In e iew wi h Ga in Wade, E e y hing You Wan ed o Know Abou Cu a ing Bu you We e A aid o Ask, S e nbe g P ess, New Yo k, 2011, 140 ! 36! Szeeman37 in 1996, Ob is ocused he in e iew owa ds he cu a o ial s a egy explo ed in he exhibi ion “Happenings and Fluxus”. This exhibi ion, commissioned by Hans Sohm and Ha ald Szeemann, and ha ook place a he Kölnische Kuns e ein in Cologne in 1970, ma ked he ue beginning o he p ac ice o cu a ing epheme al wo ks. The exhibi ion p o ided a map o he a is ic p ac ices o Fluxus in Eu ope in 1960 and he dialogue o hose a is s wi h e en s in he US a decade ea lie . “HUO: Le 's alk abou you 1970 exhibi ion "Happening and Fluxus" in Cologne. In his exhibi , ime was mo e impo an han space. How did you decide on his app oach? HS: (…) When I was asked by Cologne's cul u al minis e o do a show, I hough , his is he place o e ace he his o y o Happenings and Fluxus. Wuppe al, whe e Nam Jun Paik, Beuys, and Wol Vos ell had s aged e en s, was nea by. So was Wiesbaden, whe e Geo ge Maciunas o ganized ea ly Fluxus conce s, and in Cologne i sel Heine F ied ich p omo ed La Mon e Young. I chose a h ee- pa s uc u e. Pa one was a wall o documen s ha I pu oge he wi h Hans Sohm, who had passiona ely collec ed he in i a ions, lye s, and o he p in ed ma e ials ha ela ed o all he happenings and e en s in ecen a his o y. This wall o documen s di ided he space o Cologne's Kuns e ein in wo. On each side, he e we e smalle spaces whe e a is s could p esen hei own wo k - his was he second pa o he show (…) A hi d pa consis ed o !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 37 Ha ald Szeeman (1933-2005) is seen as one o he mos in luen ial p ac i ione s in cu a o ial p ac ice, his wo k as been seen as a c ucial con ibu ion o he de elopmen o cu a ing as an a o m. ! 37! pe o mances by Vos ell, Robe Wa s, Dick Higgings, as well as Kap ow’s i e piece (…) “38 As i can be seen in his ex ac , his exhibi ion was he example o an inno a i e cu a o ial model ha uni ed epheme al and isual a wo ks. Fo i s cons uc ion, Szeemann explains, he enue was di ided in h ee sec ions, pa one dedica ed o documen a ion, pa wo o objec a wo ks and h ee o pe o mance shows. La e in he in e iew, Szeemann aces he e olu ion o his cu a o ial model o he o ma explo ed in Documen a in he same yea : “(…) Beuys pa icipa ed wi h his O ice o Di ec Democ acy, whe e we sa h oughou he un o Documen a discussing a , social p oblems and daily li e wi h isi o s o he show. (…) This was he i s ime ha Documen a was no longe concei ed as a “100 Day Museum” bu as a “100 Day E en ”. A e he summe o 68, heo izing in he a wo ld was o de o he day, and i shocked people when I pu a s op o all he Hegelian and Ma xis discussions.” 39 Ob is ’s in e iew wi h Szeeman a emp s o ecall he e olu ion o his modali y ha con ibu ed o he c ea ion o he s uc u e o wha la e came o be he ea lie wen y i s cen u y aes he ic ins i u ion. In e es ed in he e olu ion o exhibi ion models and he his o ical e olu ion o he in eg a ion o he epheme al wo ks in exhibi ion spaces, his in e iews a e conduc ed as a way o g adually mapping he e olu ion o exhibi ion !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 38 Ha ald Szeeman, In e iew wi h Hans-Ul ich Ob is , B ie His o y o Cu a ing, JRP Ringie , 2008, 46-47 39 Ha ald Szeeman, In e iew wi h Hans Ul ich Ob is , B ie His o y o Cu a ing, JRP Ringie , 2008, 48 ! 38! making and cu a o ial ield as an a is ic p ac ice.40 In his in e iews, Ob is does no c ea e a linea his o y o cu a o ial e en s, bu a he an open na a i e ha ela es his o ical ac s and expe imen al p og ams de eloped in he ea ly cu a ing o he wen ie h cen u y. Ano he example o his in e iews as a ool o collec es imonies om cu a o ial e en s is he in e iew wi h he cu a o Wal e Hopps, in which Hopps e ells he s o y o wha was in ol ed in he cons uc ion o ‘Thi y-Six Hou s’, an exhibi ion om 1978 a MOTA (Museum o Tempo a y A ) in Pen S a e in which all kinds o people (a is s and non-a is s) we e in i ed o b ing a piece hey would like o expose. The pieces we e shown du ing 36 hou s and we e la e a chi ed by he museum. “HUO: I one looks a he encyclopedic ange o exhibi ions you’ e o ganized, i ’s s iking ha , besides he exhibi ions ha ake place in and ede ine museum spaces, you’ e also done shows in o he spaces and con ex s whe e you end o change he ules o wha an exhibi ion ac ually is. I’m in e es ed in hese dialec ics – he exhibi ions ha ake place ou side he museum c ea e a ic ion wi h wha akes place inside he museum, and ice e sa. By ques ioning hese expec a ions he museum becomes a mo e ac i e space. When you we e a museum cu a o in Washing on you o ganized he show called Thi y-Six Hou s a an al e na i e space. WP: Yes, Thi y-Six Hou s was li e ally o ganized om he s ee . The e was p ac ically no budge , no money. HUO: So you ac ually only had a small al e na i e space, he Museum o Tempo a y A , a you disposal. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 40 The publica ion “A B ie His o y o Cu a ing”(2008), Ob is edi ed a se ies o in e iews like his one in which we can ac ually see how he cu a ing de eloped as a p ac ice o e he yea s. ! 39! WP: Righ . I had a basemen and ou loo s. I no mally jus showed on wo o hose loo s. I no mally jus showed on wo o hose loo s. Mo e people will come han i wo loo s. They said: How do you know? And I said: I you say you’ e ha ing a show whe e anyone who b ings any hing can be shown, people a e going o come. HUO: So you ac ually did he hanging when people b ough hings. (…) WP: My only equi emen was ha i had o i h ough he doo .” 41 ‘Thi y-Six Hou s’ was an expe imen in which he space o he museum was challenged and ans o med in o a space ha could e lec on he ela ionship o he inhabi an s o Pen S a e wi h he local museum. The expe imen also aised he issue o he impo ance o collec ing social memo ies o e e yday li e in an ins i u ional a chi e. Implici in Ob is ’s in e iew p ac ice is he cons an will o challenge he a chi e by ques ioning he il e ha de e mines wha should be sa ed and, once sa ed, in which display hey should be shown. As an example o his own p ac ice, in se e al in e iews, Ob is e e s o he exhibi ion “The D esden Room” (1927). Mos commonly known as “The Abs ac Cabine ” 42 , his exhibi ion, cu a ed by Alexand e Do ne , was an example o a p o oca i e model o exhibi ion making in which Do ne in i ed he so ie a is El Liss zly o p ojec a pa ilion and cu a e se e al abs ac pain ings inside i . The esul was a h ee dimensional piece in which he wo ks we e disposed in a non-ch onological way and also non- hema ic, hus a oiding ca ego iza ions. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 41 Wal e Hopps, In e iew wi h Hans-Ul ich Ob is Wal e Hopps, B ie His o y o Cu a ing,JRP Ringie , 2008, 22-23 42 “The Abs ac Cabine ” was he name o he on ispiece o he exhibi ion. ! 40! “I you hink ha Do ne in i ed El Lissi zky o make he Lissi zky’s oom, he “Kabine de Abs ak en” in 1927, i would be qui e a da ing o hing o do a museum now: o in i e a con empo a y a is no o do a show, bu o ac ually hand he collec ion in a oom whe e he a wo ks o o he a is s could be “mo ed a ound” and cu a ed by isi o s.”43 The i le “The Abs ac Cabine ” eassembles he concep ‘Wunde ka mme ’, mos commonly known as ‘Cabine o Cu iosi ies’ which was he name gi en o a chi al ooms whe e he e ogeneous objec s om all di e en ma e ials we e combined and collec ed oge he . This h ee-dimensional p ojec oom was an in i a ion o he iewe o ind‚ ’new’ possible connec ions be ween he a wo ks ha we e exhibi ed. The exhibi ion was an expe imen abou e isi ing he a chi e in which he bodies o wo k o he a is s we e ein e p e ed by Lissis zky and placed in he space in o de o ini ia e unexpec ed dialogues. Simila ly, Ob i ’s in e iews in i e a is s o e isi hei own a chi e, alluding o a kind o opening o he a is s udio in which many compa isons wi h o he a is s’ a wo ks become possible.!! ! As p e iously s a ed, he In e iew P ojec has been aken o di e en s ages and has been explo ed in di e en displays. Wi h he same in e es in cap u ing wha is le aside in a his o y, Ob is s a ed o s age his in e iews in an e en called 24 hou s Ma a hon In e iews, (Fig.7) whe e he epea edly in e iews c ea i e p ac i ione s o wen y- ou hou s s aigh . The e en s a e dedica ed o a speci ic heme and p ac i ione s om all a eas a e in i ed o pa icipa e in he same con e sa ion. This p ac ice !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 43 Hans-Ul ich Ob is . ! 41! occu s in he ame o he museum o galle y, which gi es i an in imacy simila o a pe o mance. As he i le sugges s, hese pe o mances can las up o 24, o e en 48, hou s. This ha ks back o he p ac ice o ‘endu ance a ’44, which e e s o pe o mances ha a e planned o las a long pe iod o ime and commonly in ol ing some o m o ha dship, such as pain, soli ude o exhaus ion. In his pe o mance display, Hans-Ul ich Ob is , in a simila manne o Ma ina Ab amo ic in The A is is P esen , challenges his own physical endu ance, aking his p esence o exhaus ion. In his pe o mance, he challenge o Ob is 's physical endu ance in ensi ies he p esence almos o i s comple e exhaus ion. This exhaus ion o p esence is equi alen o he exhaus ion o documen a ion. As e e y momen o hese e en s is documen ed in a ious o ms, i can subsequen ly c ea e a ex machine ha is designed and hough o deli e o he eade an equi alen o he o iginal iewe 's expe ience. In pa allel wi h he In e iews p ac ice, a ex machine o he in e iews is being p oduced. This way, he exhaus i e p esence in Ob is ’s pe o mance is no o celeb a e any kind o au hen ici y o he p esen momen (like Ab amo ic does), bu is ins ead o assu e his documen a ion o ‘e e y hing said in he e en ’ as a as possible. This con e sa ional-based wo k can be seen as bo h an ex ension o he wo k and i s a chi e. As Peggy Phelan a gues abou Sophie Calle’s wo k Ghos s45, a pe o ma i e e en can ne e be ep oduced, bu i can be ex ended o ano he o m, by being inco po a ed in o ano he body o wo k. The same can be said abou he In e iew P ojec ha is i s pe o med and only la e ans o med in o a ex . As Paul Auslande a gues in !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 44 Endu ance A is a concep design by a his o ian Michael Fallon ha e e s o pe o mances ha a e planned o las a long pe iod o ime commonly in ol ing some o m o ha dship, such as pain, soli ude o exhaus ion. 45 Calle in e iewed a ious isi o s and membe s o he museum s a , asking hem o desc ibe he s olen pain ings (pain ings ha disappea ed om Isabella S ewa Ga dne Museum in Bos on in 1990). She hen ansc ibed hese ex s and placed hem nex o he pho og aphs o he galle ies. ! 48! be ween sen ences, pause om one in e locu o , o ano he , and pause o a en ion he hea ing ha doubles he o ce o locu ion.” 51 Ce ainly, in In e iew P ojec , Ob is is awa e o how a con e sa ion can up u e he low o discou se. Simila ly o wha Blancho sugges s, Ob is aims o c ea e a con e sa ion ha e e s o an o al his o y o collec ed con e sa ions, in which in e up ion, edundancy and e en epe i ion a e welcome as pa o he necessa ily imp o ised s a us o a con e sa ion. Besides la e exis ing in a ex o m, In e iew P ojec has as i s base he aes he ics o a con e sa ion. Fo he p in ed e sion o he in e iew, he layou designe Ma hias Augus yniak, oge he wi h Hans Ul ich Ob is , ies o cap u e he essence o he con e sa ion and ies ‘ o con ey in he layou o he book edi ion he same ‘ha mony’ o he con e sa ion.’ 52 A s ake, in bo h li e and p in ed e sions, is he p oduc i e no ion o how hough can mo e h ough a con e sa ion. In his in e iew wi h he Ge man philosophe Hans-Geo g Gadame , his no ion is explo ed when Gadame goes a beyond in ime and connec s he legacy o ou speech con e sa ional modali y wi h Pla o’s dialogues: “HUO: In Gedich und Gesp äch (Poem and Con e sa ion, 1990), you explain p ecisely ha language only li es in he con e sa ion. HGG: O cou se, because in con e sa ion one is indeed always in mo ion. By gi ing an answe , he o he comple es one's one speaking. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 51 Mau ice Blancho , The In ini e Con e sa ion, T ansla ed by Susan Hanson. Uni e si y o Minneso a,1993. 52 Hans-Ul ich Ob is . ! 49! HUO: Again and again you e e o he impo ance o con e sa ion o philosophy in you wo k, and how a ely con e sa ion appea s in philosophy a e Pla o. How would you explain he absence o con e sa ion in he his o y o philosophy? HGG: People s ill don' belie e ha Pla o did no ha e he answe s o he ques ions asked. Bu ac ually, his is essen ial o he ques ion. We awe chea ing i we ask ques ions we know he answe s o. The na u al way is ha one wan s o unde s and he o he and his answe oo.”53 As he in e iew mo es o wa d, bo h p o agonis s ela e hei p ac ice de eloping o me a-linguis ic discou se, since bo h in e iew and in e iewee a e e lec ing on con e sa ions: “HUO: In in e iews, you o en men ion he down igh ca alyzing e ec which you con e sa ions wi h Heidegge had on you. Could you say some hing abou you i s mee ings? You desc ibe he i s con e sa ion in pa icula as a c ucial e en . HGG: I mus admi ha I canno eally emembe his exac ly anymo e. I hink ha one should ealize abo e all ha Heidegge has ecognized he impo ance o silence. This cons i u es a signi ican pa o his e ec . Silence is a way o alking. I in i es comple ion. HUO: This eminds me o John Cage and his iconoclas ic ges u e o !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 53 Hans-Geo g Gadame , In e iew wi h Hans-Ul ich Ob is , In e iew P ojec , Volume I, 443, 444 ! 50! emaining silen . HGG: This is a game wi h he dying down o sound. I couldn' imagine a s onge eeling o se eni y hen when a piece o music comes o an end and ades away. HUO: Should we s op now? (…) “ 54 This ex ac p o es Ob is ’s awa eness o he dynamic ela ionship be ween he in e iew and he in e iewee, and his in e es in he possibili y o managing he unexpec ed pa hs o he con e sa ion. I is also a e lec ion on how asking a ques ion is al eady o mula ing an answe .55 As E ik Ve gahen sugges s, he in e iew can call on a ious me hods and con igu a ions, bu mainly de elops in wo di e en di ec ions, ei he “cen i ugal” when he cen al heme o discussion mo es ou wa ds, o “cen ipe al” when i mo es owa ds a cen al heme. As Ve gahen w i es: “In he i s ins ance, he in e iewe adop s a low p o ile, holding back so as be a uned o his in e locu o , “accompanying” him o he in he musical sense o he e m. Whe eas in he second ins ance, he in e iewe ies on he con a y o d aw he in e iewee owa ds him, he bes in e iews ob iously being hose which con ey a balance be ween hese wo dynamics.”56 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 54 Hans-Geo g Gadame , In e iew wi h Hans-Ul ich Ob is , In e iew P ojec , Volume I, 444, 445. 55 In o de wo ds, he Po uguese philosophe João dos San os would ask in his amous adio show in 1995: “I you don’ know, why do you ask?” 56 E ik Ve hagen, “On In e iews”, ansla ion Simon Pleasance, C i ique d’A , 32, Au omne 2008, Acessed in 12 June 2016: h p://c i iqueda . e ues.o g/775 ! 51! As i can be no ed, Ob is is in e es ed in le ing he con e sa ion un old wi hou implica ing p ede e mined o planned s uc u es and na a i es. In his pe o ma i e con e sa ions, neu ali y unc ions as a cen al elemen o he ac ion. Howe e , in he con ex o he a is ic in e iew, neu ali y is di e en om passi i y, which ends owa ds p ede e mined s abili y and a dialogue wi hou equal p o agonis s. Neu ali y, as an elemen o ac ion, e e s o he in e als and pauses in he con e sa ion, he less de ined and open space be ween he wo ds and he momen be o e he con e sa ion whe e i is implici ly se as a quasi- ule allowing he pe o ma i e luidi y o he con e sa ion i sel wi hou excluding (and a imes e en encou aging) he possibili y o in e up ions, hesi a ions, epe i ions and o he con ingencies. In ha way, neu ali y ende s he con e sa ion less consciously guided, bu mo e concep ually s uc u ed. This way, Ob is opens up he possibili y o combine wo complemen a y dynamics. As Louis Ma in w i es, he in e iew is a “discou se pe o ce a isk o d i o in dange o imp o isa ion, because pa i no all o i ha is u e ed will be so in he o m o eplies p o oked by a ques ion, o which nei he o he wo pa ies in ol ed is uly mas e ”.57 As he in e iew mo es o wa d, Ob is inc easingly wi hd aws om his ole as an ac i e in e iewe , lea ing space o he unp edic able pa hs o he con e sa ion. As shown, he con e sa ion is simul aneously conduc ed by bo h in e iewe and in e iewee. This way, In e iew P ojec builds an ongoing con e sa ion in which common meaning is p oduced mos ly because he con e sa ion ha is being ‘pe o med’ agmen s i sel !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 57 Louis Ma in, De l’En e ien, Pa is, Minui , 1997,11-12 ! 52! by changing p o agonis s. Ob is designs his in e iews as unp edic able con e sa ions. Ano he no ion is a s ake in ‘in ini e con e sa ions’. As I a gued in he las chap e , Ob is conduc s his in e iews as a way o allowing a ein e p e a ion o a e en s om he pas in he p esen momen o his in e iews, when he in e iews p ac i ione s who pa icipa ed in hose e en s. A he same ime, hese in e iews ha e e o he pas a e con inued in ime. Fo example, he in e iews he same p ac i ione se e al imes o e he yea s, accompanying his wo k and linking he i s in e iew o he second, hi d e c., aking he las in e iew as a poin o depa u e o he new one. This dynamic also con ibu es o wha we can call an in ini e con e sa ion. Ob is , while being in he p esen , dialogues wi h he pas , bu a he same ime pushes he dialogue in o he u u e. As an example, a he end o his in e iews, Ob is always asks his in e iewees “wha is you un ealized p ojec ?” Toge he wi h Julia Pey on-Jones in he Se pen ine Galle y, Ob is has c ea ed wha he calls he ‘Agency o Un ealized P ojec s’, an a chi e in which all he answe s o his inal ques ion a e sa ed, wai ing o be ealized. VI Looking Fo wa d: The A chi e o he Fu u e As I ha e shown, he no ion o he pas as a empo ali y a anged in he p esen in Hans-Ul ich Ob is ’s in e iews can be seen as he bulk o his p ojec . Bu he comp ehensi e documen a ion o his e en s also e eals an anxie y o ime ha somehow wishes o accele a e he p esen in o de o achie e p o isional aces o he u u e. In Ma a hon In e iews, Ob is ’s exhaus ion o p esence is equi alen o he exhaus ion o documen a ion, as i he uses he p esen as a ehicle o push in o ma ion and his o ical ac s o wa d, collec ed in his con e sa ions. The in e iews a e documen ed h ough a ious suppo s; Ob is p ojec s he pe o ma i i y o he p esen ! 53! momen in he u u e pe o ma i i y o he documen by eco ding he e en , assu ing he pe o ma i i y o i s aces and p o es ing in ad ance agains o ge ulness. In his way, Ob is ’s in e iew o ma goes beyond he idea o egis e ing pas e en s ha ha e been o go en. I is a ool o esea ch abou he u u e. “Se e al ghos e sions on he nex housand pages ha e exis ed o e he cou se o his book’s ge mina ion – each o each we e no ional p omises and p emises o he u u e In e iews, Volume 3, Volume 4, and so on. They also p omise o u u e p oduc ions o eali y in he books, buildings, exhibi ions and ma a hons ha In e iew P ojec igge .” 58 Ob is claims his con e sa ions o be p epa a o y ‘ske ches’ o his cu a o ial wo ks. In his way, ins ead o a wo k ha dissol es in o disappea ance, as Peggy Phelan sugges s, he documen a ion o In e iews P ojec has he abili y o pe pe ua e he p esence o he p esen momen in o a u u e display. Ob is igh s agains wha has been unde s ood as p esence, by unde lining in his p ojec he impossibili y o p esence as a unique si e o he body. Fo him, he a chi e o In e iew P ojec is a space in which his in e iews may in luence he u u e. Chap e Th ee ! I Pe o mance A e li es The exp ession “pe o mance a e li e” appea ed o he i s ime in he con ex o a cycle o con e ences o ganized a he es i al “C ossing he !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 58 Ka en Ma a in p e ace o In e iew P ojec , Volume II, 11 ! 54! Line” a he Museum o Mode n A 59 in New Yo k in all 2015. The cycle o con e ences, en i led ‘A e li es: The Pe sis ence o Pe o mance’ and cu a ed by he schola s And é Lepecki and Ad ian Hea h ield, was dedica ed o he p oblem o a chi ing and p ese ing pe o mance a . As a poin o depa u e, he con e ence claimed o e hink he pe sis ence o pe o mance in ime by p oposing a poli ically and aes he ically al e na i e ame o pe o mance a in o de o challenge he p econcep ions conce ning pe o mance a 's ma e iali y. “Pe o mance is inc easingly documen ed, a chi ed, ins i u ionally inco po a ed, and globally dissemina ed. While i s epheme al na u e is o en celeb a ed, i s inhe en ansience binds i o i s many e u ns—i s media ions and a e li es. Today, c i icism is ocused mo e on he ecu ence and pe sis ence o pe o mance han on i s disappea ance.“60 The e m ‘a e li e’ in i es us o hink abou he ma e iali y o pe o mance a a e he e en has aken place, o ‘a e i s ac -ness.’61 The e m sugges s ha he ma e ial cons i u i e o pe o mance s ays ‘ali e’ a e i s momen o p oduc ion. The e o e, i sugges s ha a e i s p oduc ion, he ma e ial can subsequen ly be si ua ed in a ‘second suppo ’ whe e he aces o he pe o mance a e sa ed o insc ibed. As I ha e shown, i is no commonly ag eed ha pe o mance emains in i s documen a ion. This idea o a ‘second suppo ’ he e o e complica es wha !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 59 “C ossing he Line” Fes i al websi e: Accessed in 16 June 2016, h p://www. ia .o g/c ossing heline/2015/hea h ield-lepecki.sh ml 60 Cu a o ial ex o And é Lepecki and Ad ian Hea h ield in “C ossing he Line”, in Moma, 2015. 61 Schneide ’s exp ession in “Pe o mance Remains”, Pe o mance Resea ch, Jou nal o Pe o ming A s, 2014, 105 ! 55! has been de ined as pe o mance on ology since he 1970s. As a gued be o e, pe o mance was usually seen as a p ac ice ha only exis ed in he ‘p esen momen ’, being con inually celeb a ed as he a o m o he “he e and now.” In 1993, Peggy Phelan, s a ed ha ‘pe o mance canno be sa ed, eco ded o documen ed’. As she a gued, o he deg ee ha pe o mance a emp s o ende in he economy o ep oduc ion, i be ays i s own on ology.62 Howe e , as a gued in Chap e One, wha is conside ed as p esence in he aes he ics o pe o mance a elies on a pa adox.63 The co e o his pa adox is he ac ha wha claims o be 'p esence' in pe o mance a doesn' necessa ily happen in he ac ual p esen . I will show how his pa adox o p esence, which is o en seen as he p incipal aes he ic ea u e o pe o mance a , is aligned wi h he pa adox o 'being ali e'. As epheme ali y is celeb a ed as an aes he ic condi ion, he esul o pe o ma i e p ac ice is he idea o i s disappea ance in o absence. The much celeb a ed ‘p esen momen ’ e e s o a unique and au hen ic ins an ha only exis s along wi h he ac ual pe o mance, so ha immedia ely a e i s ac -ness ( o epea Schneide 's no ion) he p esen anishes in o absence and he objec ‘s ops exis ing’. This idea, emphasized o e and o e in pe o mance heo y, 64 simul aneously a icula es he image o a decons uc ion and dep oduc ion o he sel -ex inguishing objec o pe o mance. I is his idea o pe o mance as me ely exis ing in he ac ual p esen which excludes he possibili y o ‘li e’ ha ex ends i sel in o non-anima ed ma e ials such as hose ha cons i u e he common aces o pe o mance: ex s, eco ds, audio- isual suppo s and pho og aphs. This a chi al !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 62 Phelan, Unma ked: The Poli ics o Pe o mance, 143. 63 See chap e one. 64 I am e e ing o schola s such as Peggy Phelan and He be Blau, who de end ha pe o mance only belongs o he p esen . ! 56! di ision ha sepa a es he p esen om he pas ep oduces he same bina y s uc u e ha can be ound in he sepa a ion be ween li e and non-li e, a sepa a ion ha has egula ed a lo o pe o mance a 's aes he ic and philosophical commi men s. Wha i we asked, his o ically, when and how hese bina y opposi ions o p esen s. pas and li e s. non-li e came o be ied up in de ining he ‘li e’ o he objec o pe o mance? The concep o he ‘dea h o he objec ’, ul ima ely emphasized wi h he ise o pos mode nism, has become no o ious in and h ough a ious o ms o a . Bu somehow, in pe o mance a , he idea o he ‘dea h o he objec ’ is mo e ob ious and he e o e mo e openly celeb a ed. Acco ding o Rebecca Schneide , he idea o pe o mance as ‘disappea ing’ has been emphasized by he way in which i s p oduc s ha e been a chi ed. Since he a chi ing o pe o mance a claims o ‘sa e’ he emains o i s “disappea ance” (wha is supposed o be pe o mance's o igina y on ological condi ion), he idea o he ‘dea h o he objec ’ is a icula ed by he a chi e i sel , as Schneide in ima es in he ollowing passage: "I ha e discussed he pa icidal impulse as p oduc i e o dea h in o de o insu e emains. I ha e sugges ed ha he inc easing echnologies o a chi ing may be why he la e 20 h cen u y has been bo h so enamo ed o pe o mance and so eple e wi h dea hs: dea h o au ho , dea h o science, dea h o his o y, dea h o li e a u e, dea h o cha ac e , dea h o he a an -ga de, dea h o mode nism.“ 65 His o ically, mos app oaches o he objec o pe o mance es ablish a ela ionship be ween he imma e ial (non-g aspable) epheme al objec and !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 65 Rebecca Schneide , “Pe o mance Remains”, Pe o mance Resea ch, Jou nal o Pe o ming A s, 2014, 105 ! 57! he ‘dea h o he objec ’. In o he wo ds, i has been emphasized ha when he objec loses i sel in disappea ance, i “s ops exis ing” and ‘dies’ in i s absence. Bu wha exac ly does he ‘dea h o he objec ’ o pe o mance mean his o ically? In he con ex o pe o mance a his o y, i is ela ed o he assump ion ha an objec is cons i u ed solely by ma e ial elemen s (which denies any kind o ma e ial ha is no gi en suppo in a ma e ial objec ) and wi h he necessi y o he a chi e o collec and egis e a s able, no mu able objec . Conside ing disappea ance as pe o mance’s on ological condi ion was he e o e a necessa y ing edien o ix and ensu e he o iginali y and au hen ici y o i s o iginal p oduc . In his iew, he dea h o he objec o pe o mance is a condi ion o he celeb a ion o i s epheme ali y. Howe e , i we ollow Lepecki's and Heal h ield's sugges ion ha pe o mance ex ends i s ma e iali y in o i s a e li e, we should i s y o look a he aces o pe o mance no as ‘no ali e’, bu as anima ed ma e ial capable o communica ing and con aining pe o ma i i y.66 This al e na i e iew pa es he way o he unde s anding ha he objec domain o pe o mance a , in i s a e li e (a e i s exis ence), may s ill consis o objec s.67 Bu i we conside “disappea ance” as a undamen al ea u e o pe o mance, wha kind o objec would esul om ha conside a ion? He e, I will ollow Mieke Bal's s a egy, who ied o ( e)de ine he objec domain o isual cul u e in o de o unde s and he causes o isual essen ialism. I will i s look a he objec domain o pe o mance a . In o de o es ablish he objec domain o isual cul u e, Bal s a ed by calling ou a en ion o he ambigui y o he wo d 'objec ' i sel . She w i es: !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 66 Paul Auslande a gumen in “The Pe o ma i i y o Pe o mance Documen a ion”, see Chap e one. 67 This no ion appea s in opposi ion o he idea ha pe o mance a a e i s p oduc ion disappea s. ! 64! ac i ely shapes and con ibu es o i s own his o y. Jus like Sehgal, bu wi h qui e di e en aes he ic means, Ob is 's In e iew P ojec p omo es a ‘new’ way o inco po a ing collec i e memo y in o he a chi al body, which acco ding o Jacques Le Go can lead o ‘a new kind o his o y ha should necessa ily cons i u e a new kind o a chi e.’ 80 The idea ha a pe o ma i e e en only consis s in i s ‘li e ac ’ and ha i is he e o e solely cons i u ed by ha ‘p esen momen ’ leads o a pe spec i e ha p i ileges he ‘being he e’ (and being inside he ins i u ional ame) o o he ypes o encoun e s. My examples show ha he idea o he ‘dea h o he objec ’ in pe o mance a is basically g ounded in a biological me apho whe e he e en is unde s ood o be ‘li e’ and whe e i s aces a e pa o i s disappea ance and i s ul ima e ‘dea h’. One o he cen al pa adoxes in p ese ing pe o mance a is no excluding he possibili y o ‘ lesh’ om he a chi e ( he imma e ial side o he objec ha cons an ly ‘slips away’, bu ne e heless exis s), bu only coun ing he ‘skele on’ and physical ma e ial o he pe o mance e en as pa o he a chi e. As Rebecca Schneide a gues in espec o he pa adox o p ese ing pe o mance a : “I he li ing co pse is a emain o his o y, i is ce ainly e isi ed ac oss a body ha canno pass as he co pse i e-calls. I i canno pass, wha kind o claim o au hen ici y can such a aul y co pse demand?” 81 The exp ession “Pe o mance A e li e” claims ha he a chi e is ali e and ha each ime a pe o mance ace is e isi ed, i is inco po a ed !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 80 Le Go , His o y and Memo y, 95. 81!Schneide , Pe o mance Remains, 108! ! 65! in o he obse e ’s expe ience and consequen ly ‘b ough o li e.’ When I an icipa ed (in Chap e s Two and Th ee) ha he aes he ics o bo h wo ks expand he ac ual p ojec s in o hei a chi es, I was al eady unde lining his c ucial dimension o he a e li es o hese p ojec s. II Conclusion This disse a ion conce ns he s udy o wo di e en , bu complemen a y aes he ic s a egies ha challenge dominan a chi al s uc u es. I chose wo se ies o a wo ks, Cons uc ed Si ua ions and In e iew P ojec as examples o wo ks ha challenge he way in which pe o mance a has been p ese ed and his o icized. I ied o show how hey p o ision he ac o documen a ion o hei wo ks and which ans o ma ions ha would b ing o he adi ional p ocesses o a chi ing. Mo e speci ically, I ied o show how bo h wo ks aes he ics con ibu e o inno a i e ways o a chi ing. As a gued, pe o mance a is an a o m, which on ological ea u es p essu e he museum s uc u e as well as he ways in which we w i e his o y. Besides his al eady exis ing ea u e, as I a gued, Cons uc ed Si ua ions and In e iew P ojec ha e, on he basis o hei aes he ics a igge ing ea u e ha challenges, ac i ely, he a chi e and he way in which pas wo ks ha e been his o icized. To unde s and his ea u e o hei aes he ics, I ied o explo e, in he i s place, he objec domain o hei pe o mances, compa ing i s la ge de ini ion o he adi ional way i has been seen. As showed in he analysis o he wo ks, bo h p opose a complex objec ha can be seen in mo e han one empo ali y. We could designa e his opening o he empo al ho izon o pe o mance a as ‘dis ibu ed empo ali y’, ollowing Al ed Gell’s no ion ! 66! o he dis ibu ed objec .82 As he a his o ian a gues, in he con ex o Occiden al aes he ics we a e amilia wi h one o m o dis ibu ed objec , he oeu e o comple ed wo ks o a single a is . This way, Cons uc ed Si ua ions and In e iew P ojec pe o mances, aken oge he , o m a empo ally dis ibu ed objec , which e ol es o e ime along wi h he pa icipan s' in e en ions, a ec s and collec i e memo y o he e en s. Also, his dis ibu ed objec becomes a common e e ence be ween he pa icipan s. Mo eo e , his dis ibu ed objec which is, as a whole, ung aspable, becomes a ne wo k be ween he subjec s whe e he memo y o he e en is insc ibed.83 As Michel Foucaul in e es ingly sugges s in A chaeology o Knowledge, he a chi e is a sys em o simul aneously ans o ming pas , p esen , and u u e – ha is, a sys em o ec ea ing a whole economy o he empo al. This same de ini ion p oposed by Foucaul o desc ibe he a chi e can be ansla ed in o he p ac ice o Sehgal and Ob is . Thei ‘dis ibu ed objec s’ also ec ea e a new economy o he empo al by jux aposing di e en empo ali ies ha a e con inually linked by he same objec . This means ha hei objec s, o e ime, mo e close and close o he a chi e. As also a gued, Cons uc ed Si ua ions and In e iew P ojec ex end hei wo ks in o he a chi e by p o isioning he way in which he a chi al s uc u e, ha ecei es hei wo k, will be ans o med. This ex ension o hei wo ks was analyzed in he ligh o Lepecki and Hea h ield p oposal ha pe o mance may esis s i s ac ual momen and con inue in i s a e li e. As I ied o show, in he las chap e , bo h wo ks con ibu e o a no ion o pe o mance as an objec ha is no ‘ ozen’ in he p esen momen and, he e o e, no ixed in a single space. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 82 Al ed Gell, A and Agency, An An h opological Theo y, Cla endon: Ox o d, 1998,142 83 Gell quo ed in And ew Jones, Memo y and Ma e ial Cul u e, Uni e si y o Sou hamp on, 2007, 21-22 ! 67! This way, bo h unde line he po en iali y o pe o mance o challenge he museum s uc u e. Bu hey go a s ep u he : wha hey p opose, is somehow “some hing o he han pe o mance”, since hey cons uc a way o challenge he a chi e and change i om wi hin h ough he elabo a ion o an objec capable o ope a e and ans o m a chi al s uc u es. The ges u e o p oducing an objec ha sugges s ano he kind o o de ing wi hin he a chi al s uc u e, and consequen ly in he museum, ecalls Jacques Ranciè e’s de ini ion o he poli ics o a (in opposi ion o poli ical a ). Fo Ranciè e, a is s who pa icipa e ac i ely in changing o de s o he ‘ isible, sayable and hinkable’ p oduce a ‘ edis ibu ion o he senses’, c ea ed h ough he egime o aes he ics.84 Ranciè e a gues ha he egimes o aes he ics, as well as he poli ical ac ion, can e-con igu e and edis ibu e he sensible in o de o c ea e new modes o exis ence. In he essay A , Wo k and Poli ics in Disciplina y Socie ies and Socie ies o Secu i y (2008), Mau icio Lazza a o, in eac ion o Ranciè e's hesis, p oposes a new aes he ic pa adigm. Acco ding o him, he cons uc ion o new modes o exis ence media ed solely by he aes he ics egime is no longe enough o means o poli ical exp ession oday. As he a gues: “I is only possible o a icula e he meaning o a si ua ion in ela ion o an ac ion unde aken o ans o m i .”85 He e, he a gumen o Lazza a o could be ela ed o he ges u e o Cons uc ed Si ua ions and In e iew P ojec o ex ending hei objec in o he a chi e. Bo h wo ks do no solely p opose a new way o a chi ing, hey in i e he ins i u ions o (mo e o less) adical changes in o de o ecei e hei wo k. Since bo h wo ks, as a gued, a e subjec ed o pe manen ans o ma ions as an implici consequence o hei !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 84 Jacques Ranciè e, Le Pa age du Sensible, La Fab ique Édi ions, Pa is, 1998, 16 85 Mau icio Lazza a o, “A , Wo k and Poli ics in Disciplina y Socie ies and Socie ies o Secu i y,” Radical Philosophy 149, May-June 2008, 26 ! 68! s uc u e, once hey en e he ealm o he ins i u ions, hey keep pu ing p essu e on he ins i u ions o e-e alu a e hei modali ies o a chi ing. E en whe e hey claim o mean he opposi e, aes he ic ins i u ions in hei accus omed s uc u es end o make us belie e ha wha cons i u es he a chi e is e e nal, i m, solid and ne e epheme al. Wha Sehgal and Ob is p opose a e a chi es whose unc ion canno be ully pe o med by a gi en ins i u ion. 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