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Audience participation and collaboration: a practice-led study of contemporary performance

by Caroline Dubois

Institution: Manchester Metropolitan University
Year: 2017
Posted: 02/01/2018
Record ID: 2162240
Full text PDF: http://e-space.mmu.ac.uk/619285/


Abstract

This Master of Arts by Research project proposes the use of research throughpraxis, to reach an understanding of the subject of participation andcollaboration in contemporary art through a system of making and reflection.The research evolved through my artistic practice, the application of theory, andthe subsequent folding of both methods of enquiry into each other. The focus ofthe investigation was on the creation of two projects I was involved in as part ofmy professional creative practice. The first being The DJ Who Gave Too MuchInformation / The Listening Party produced by PME-Art from Montreal and thesecond Autumn. by Quarantine from Manchester. The commonality between thetwo works is an invitation to the audience to participate in a live performanceand the subsequent generation of a collaborative artwork.The research looked at the contemporary relevance of meeting and participatingin a live context and the strategies utilized in making this happen. Thedeployment of hospitality as a strategy, in order to seduce and encourage theaudience within the context of participatory art and the tensions related to it,emerged as the key finding.I am looking at how the strategies (which focus around acts of hospitality andrhizomatic structure) invite a sense of agency from the audience that resonateswith contemporary spectator discourse. The ideas explored within this researchwere informed by six primary written works: The Emancipated Spectator byJacques Rancire (2011) on the role and idea of the spectator; Artificial Hells(2012) by Claire Bishop on participatory art and the politics of spectatorship;Audience Participation in Theatre (2013) by Gareth White on the aesthetic of theinvitation; Conversation Pieces (2011) by Grant Kester on community andcommunication in modern art; A Thousand Plateaus (1987) by Guattari andDeleuze on the concept of rhizome and Of Hospitality by Derrida andDufourmentelle (2000) on the concept of hospitality. The methods used for thisresearch consisted of reflective journaling, performances, photo and videodocumentation, questionnaires, and a literature review.

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