1 Introduction: To Open.2 Contextual Configurations: Grounding Historical, Conceptual and Political Roots of One-to-One Performance.3 Empathetic Orientations in One-to-One Performance: Cathartic Modes of Engagement.4 One-to-One Performance in the Public Sphere: Socio-spatial Frames of Encounter.5 Intercourse Discourse in One-to-One Performance: Explicit Approaches to Interaction.6 Clubbing, Consuming, Cruising: Curatorial Responsibility in One-to-One Performance.7 Conclusion: True Stories.
Author(s): Rachel Zerihan
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 215
City: London
Acknowledgements
Contents
List of Figures
Chapter 1: Introduction: To Open
The Approach: Strategic Subjectivity
Continuum of Intimacy
Anti-capitalist
The Cultural Politics
The Critical Context: Peer Publications
The Content: Summaries of Chapters
References
Chapter 2: Contextual Configurations: Grounding Historical, Conceptual and Political Roots of One-to-One Performance
Red in Woods: Solo Immersion into a Lifelike Fairytale
Innehalten, Waiting & Waiting and Disintegration: Attentive Conversations
Bye Bye Blacksheep (1976)
Feed Me (1973)
‘Accidental’ One-to-Ones
How Shall I Act? The Dutiful Spectator and the Character Named Spectator
Conclusion
References
Chapter 3: Empathetic Orientations in One-to-One Performance: Cathartic Modes of Engagement
Linda Mary Montano’s Art/Life Counselling (Since 1984)
Appropriating the Therapeutic Relation in Contemporary Works of One-to-One
Typically Cathartic Responses to One-to-One
‘From Working Out of Fear (to) Working More Now Out of Strength’: Karen Finley Intuiting Ethical Catharsis (Finley, 2005)
‘Becoming Uncomfortable’: Kira O’Reilly Renewing Responsibility Through Ethical Catharsis
Catalysing Catharses
References
Chapter 4: One-to-One Performance in the Public Sphere: Socio-spatial Frames of Encounter
Interrelations on the Emerald Necklace
Walking:Holding
Playing-Trusting
Conclusion
References
Chapter 5: Intercourse Discourse in One-to-One Performance: Explicit Approaches to Interaction
Spilling Jouissance: ‘Tales of the Senses’, Tonguing and Licking
The Promiscuous Spectator
Sex Education
Conclusion
References
Chapter 6: Clubbing, Consuming, Cruising: Curatorial Responsibility in One-to-One Performance
ORLAN: Selling French Kisses
Personal Services
The Hungry Spectator
An Industry of Experience? Neoliberal Values in One-to-One Performance?
‘Currency of Communication’
Cruising for Art: An Equitable Exchange?
Conclusion
References
Chapter 7: Conclusion: True Stories
Mutual Exposures
Spectacularly Ordinary
Sociality as a Political Act
Strange Times
References
Index
