Josefine Wikström is Associate Professor of Dance Theory at Stockholm University of the Arts.

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Acknowledgements

Introduction: From a cultural to a critical concept of performance

• Performance, performativity and its disciples
• Marx's epistemology: A critical methodology
• Post-mediality and a generic concept of performance
• Task-Dance and the Event-Score: Epistemological Problems

Chapter 1. Practice: Performance a practice of relations

1. Practice and a metaphysics of practice in Aristotle
2. From action painting to performance art
3. From musical modernism to performance in general
4. Marx's relational practice: Smith, Hegel and Feuerbach
5. Performance, a practice of relations

Chapter 2. Experience: Art as experience or an art to experience?

2.1. Dewey's concept of experience: Unmediated interaction
2.2. Art as experience: Ono and Forti
2.3. Critical limits of Dewey's experience: Kant versus Dewey

Chapter 3. Object: Acts of negations of the medium-specific art object

3.1. The minimalist and the de-materialised object

3.2. From independent things to acts of the subject

3.2. Dance and event as object: Kant

3.3. Phenomenal objectivities in task-dance and event-score practices: Husserl

Chapter 4. Abstraction: Task-dance's abstract ontology

4.1. Rainer's No-Manifesto and other negations

4.2. The social form of abstract labour: Marx

4.3. The autonomous artwork in Adorno

4.4. Division of labour, abstract time and the disciplined body.

Chapter 5. Structure: The performative structure-object

5.1. Structural objects in task-dance and in structuralism: Trisha Brown' Accumulation

5.2. The Performativity of the Cartesian I

5.3. Labour in general, art in general, performance in general

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Bibliography

Index of names

Subject index

Index of works