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The Language of Performance Art – A Dialogue of Matter, Duration, and Agency (last edited: 2025)

Leena Kela

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In this artistic research I approach performance art as a language formed through the interplay of materiality, duration, and multiple forms of agency. I adopt a linguistic lens, not to reduce performance art only to language, but to use it as an analytical tool to render its characteristics, regularities, and modes of operation visible. A work of performance art emerges within relations between the performer’s corporeality, materials, space, and time. It weaves together visual, conceptual, and embodied thinking, privileging ephemerality and immediacy over permanence. The audience is integral to the work, as performance is an ephemeral art in which performer and audience share the experience in the same moment. Documentation, especially photography and video, enables the reshaping of temporal and spatial relations, as the camera frames, selects, and reconstructs the situation. My inquiry focuses on relations among human, more-than-human, and nonhuman agents. I situate my practice within the field of new materialist and posthumanist contemporary art, where works take shape through multilayered collaborative processes across diverse agents. Performance studies serves as one of the conceptual frameworks.
typeresearch exposition
keywordsPerformance Art, Language, matter, duration, agency, video performance, social media
date02/07/2025
last modified20/08/2025
statusin progress
share statuspublic
affiliationUniversity of the Arts Helsinki
copyrightLeena Kela
licenseCC BY-NC-ND
languageFinnish
urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/3782035/3782043


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