Abstract
Documenting performance in the context of practice-based research has become the standard protocol for the assessment of live work in the academy as permanent document and archive. In contrast, the practice of Buddhism recognizes impermanence as the central doctrine governing all conditioned existence. What happens when these two fields are combined? In addressing the dialectic inherent in documenting a field of performance art that relies on its doctrinal foundations to convey principles that video documentation renders redundant, I offer an alternative method of documentation as part of the creative process that keep the work ‘live’ in the mind of the audience upon every subsequent engagement with the archive. Far from being a failure to document, Buddhist performance art demands a new approach to the documentation of performance.
The article includes a performance score inspired by my autobiographical performance art work At Sea:1980-2010.
The article includes a performance score inspired by my autobiographical performance art work At Sea:1980-2010.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 309-321 |
Number of pages | 13 |
Journal | Dance, Movement and Spiritualities |
Volume | 2 |
Issue number | 3 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Dec 2016 |
Keywords
- Buddhism
- performance art
- documentation
- autobiography
- archive
- Lynn Redgrave