ARTIST AS MEDIUM
ARTIST AS MEDIUM, NOT MASTER
CENTRAL TENSION
CONTROL
↔
RECEPTIVITY
AUTHORSHIP
↔
MEDIUMSHIP
MASTERY
↔
AFFECTABILITY
INTENTION
↔
EMERGENCE.
QUESTIONS
Which pedagogies asked me to control the body?
Which practices asked me instead to listen or receive?
When did material emerge that I had not consciously planned?
When did structure generate content rather than content being imposed upon structure?
When did performance seem to happen through me rather than be entirely authored by me?
Where did surrender become productive?
Where did surrender become dangerous?
POSSIBLE CONNECTIONS
- Decroux → authority of form, mastery and structure;
- Mary Overlie / Viewpoints → horizontal attention and permission;
- Marco Donnarumma → affectability against control;
- Ephia Gburek → possession by interior or non-human forces;
- Joseph Beuys → shamanic mediation;
- Song of the Goat → polyphony and collective resonance;
- physiological dramaturgy → structure releasing content.