Performance Research Volume 25 Issue 3
On Microperformativity
Issue editors: Jens Hauser & Lucie Strecker
ISSN: 1352-8165 (2020) 25:3
This issue aims to scrutinize both the epistemological and aesthetic potential of the notion of ‘microperformativity’. The concept denotes a current trend in theories of performativity and performative artistic practices to destabilize human scales (both spatial and temporal) as the dominant plane of reference and to emphasize biological and technological micro-agencies that relate the invisibility of the microscopic to the incomprehensibility of the macroscopic. Investigations into microperformativity redefine what art, philosophy and the technosciences actually consider a ‘body’ today, in times when performance art shifts towards generalized and pervasive performativity in art. Microperformative positions enquire how artistic methods can engage critically with technologies that exploit life on a microscopic and molecular level to merge bio- and digital media, including for global capitalization. How can performative art and discourses inform these processes to think biopolitics and necropolitics in relation to the dystopia of economy and the utopia of ecology alike? This issue contains contributions on biotechnological performances, physiological processes and micro-gestures, traditional rituals and techniques of craft, on microperformativity seen through the lens of the natural sciences, as well as in economics in times of algorithmic finance and high frequency trading.
Editorial : On Microperformativity
Jens Hauser, Lucie Strecker
pp. 1 - 7
Epistemes of Performativity
Chris Salter
pp. 8 - 11
Microperformativity and Biomediality
Jens Hauser
pp. 12 - 24
Living Ashes : Associated milieus and distributed agencies
Carolina Ramirez-Figueroa, Luis Hernan, Pei-Ying Lin
pp. 25 - 31
Labor : The post-anthropocentric body ‘at work’
Paul Vanouse
pp. 32 - 37
Microorganisms on Stage : Winogradsky columns as performative displays in art and science
Mariana Pérez Bobadilla, Rodrigo Guzmán Serrano
pp. 38 - 44
My Name is Sculpture : For we are many
Thomas Feuerstein
pp. 45 - 49
Non-terrestrial Material Agency
Juan M. Castro, Akihiro Kubota
pp. 50 - 55
Microbial Keywording : Towards material speech acts
Klaus Spiess, Lucie Strecker
pp. 56 - 62
One Suppository : A para-medical insertion [artist’s pages]
K T Zakravsky/Zak Ray
pp. 63 - 64
‘Agency is Everywhere’ : An encounter with Hans-Jörg Rheinberger
Jens Hauser, Lucie Strecker
pp. 65 - 71
Culturing cut : Cyanobacteria against scientific objectivity [artist’s pages]
Hideo Iwasaki
pp. 72 - 73
Exploring the Aesthetic Potential of AMB’s MOC and AAM [artists’ pages]
Agnes Meyer-Brandis, Lioudmila Voropai
pp. 74 - 76
Anatomical Minutiae and Cannular Self-experimentation
Ana María Gómez López
pp. 77 - 82
STILLLEBEN with Symbionts
Irini Athanassakis, David Berry
pp. 83 - 87
Transgenesis as Art, Art as Infection : The case of Adam Zaretsky
Polona Tratnik
pp. 88 - 94
Microbiospherians : Leveraging microbes in biosphere 2
Karmen Franinović, Roman Kirschner
pp. 95 - 103
Neuronal Acts
Chris Salter
pp. 104 - 113
Contingent Claims : The performativity of finance, or how the future materializes in technocapitalism
Gerald Nestler
pp. 114 - 122
(Micro-)Performing Ancient Weaving in the PENELOPE project
Giovanni Fanfani, David Griffiths, Ellen Harlizius-Klück, Annapurna Mamidipudi, Annapurna Mamidipudi, Alex McLean
pp. 123 - 130
Audiencing Slowness : Tiny ontologies and the post-human turn
Joanne 'Bob' Whalley, Lee Miller
pp. 131 - 136
Emersive Microperformativity : On physiological mediation in Yann Marussich’s ‘immobile’ performances
Bernard Andrieu, Anaïs Bernard, Giorgio Cipoletta, Yann Marussich, Yann Marussich, Petrucia da Nobrega
pp. 137 - 144
Genes, Memes and Dots
Nigel Helyer
pp. 145 - 152
Embodiment of Pakshi Kolam : Performing the molecular human
M R Vishnuprasad
pp. 153 - 157
Art and the Microbiome : New places for microperformativity in the work of Art Orienté Objet
Marion Laval-Jeantet
pp. 158 - 163
Speaking with Viruses
Tagny Duff
pp. 164 - 166
Notes on Contributors
pp. 167 - 170
