Post-Performance Future. Method/e

Post-Performance Future. Method/e
Marie de Brugerolle
English and french
Delpire and co
2023

“Post Performance Future” is a pioneering traveling artistic research project (2012 to 2022) led by art historian and curator Marie de Brugerolle.

The concept of post-performance questions the impact and legacy of performativity on the visual arts. It reveals artists in training and at work. Precise work involving the body, the voice, the manipulation of objects and the reading of texts engages a professionalism far removed from the idea of impulse or improvisation.
Since the 1970s, this methodical investigation and foresight has given rise to new notions and put them into practice through performance (with aesthetic and political consequences). It retraces and surpasses a history shaped by an American-European genealogy of performance art.

The book shows and exposes the genesis of performances and concepts born during the research and now used in the art world by those who followed this experience during their studies and research.