Virtuosic Performance: Rearticulating Disability in the Works of Lisa Bufano, Ron Athey, and Martin O'Brien

Virtuosic Performance: Rearticulating Disability in the Works of Lisa Bufano, Ron Athey, and Martin O'Brien

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Main Author: Kurtz, Amanda J.
Language:English
Published: Ohio University / OhioLINK 2012
Subjects:
Art Criticism
Art History
Dance
Fine Arts
Performing Arts
virtuosity
disability
performance and disability
Ron Athey
Martin O'Brien
Lisa Bufano
Online Access:http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1354806907
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spelling ndltd-OhioLink-oai-etd.ohiolink.edu-ohiou13548069072021-08-03T05:19:44Z Virtuosic Performance: Rearticulating Disability in the Works of Lisa Bufano, Ron Athey, and Martin O'Brien Kurtz, Amanda J. Art Criticism Art History Dance Fine Arts Performing Arts virtuosity disability performance and disability Ron Athey Martin O'Brien Lisa Bufano The performance art practices of Lisa Bufano, Martin O’Brien, and Ron Athey articulate a virtuosic disability that operates in the spaces between representation, embodied experience, and material traces of the diseased or disabled body. Using Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari’s model of affective, relational bodies, this thesis analyzes Ron Athey’s <i>Deliverance</i> and <i>Self-Obliteration</i> cycle, Lisa Bufano’s performance work <i>One Breath is an Ocean for a Wooden Heart</i>, and Martin O’Brien’s durational performance of <i>Mucus Factory</i>, arguing that when virtuosity and disability are at play with one another in performance, all assumptions about the essential dysfunction of the disabled body become groundless. The disabled body becomes an affirmation of embodiment and possibility, performing a body that can be painful, erotic, sensual, sublime, knowable and unknowable at each turn, opening up the potential for a multiplicity of body knowledges and experiences. 2012 English text Ohio University / OhioLINK http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1354806907 http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1354806907 unrestricted This thesis or dissertation is protected by copyright: all rights reserved. It may not be copied or redistributed beyond the terms of applicable copyright laws.
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topic Art Criticism
Art History
Dance
Fine Arts
Performing Arts
virtuosity
disability
performance and disability
Ron Athey
Martin O'Brien
Lisa Bufano
spellingShingle Art Criticism
Art History
Dance
Fine Arts
Performing Arts
virtuosity
disability
performance and disability
Ron Athey
Martin O'Brien
Lisa Bufano
Kurtz, Amanda J.
Virtuosic Performance: Rearticulating Disability in the Works of Lisa Bufano, Ron Athey, and Martin O'Brien
author Kurtz, Amanda J.
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title Virtuosic Performance: Rearticulating Disability in the Works of Lisa Bufano, Ron Athey, and Martin O'Brien
title_short Virtuosic Performance: Rearticulating Disability in the Works of Lisa Bufano, Ron Athey, and Martin O'Brien
title_full Virtuosic Performance: Rearticulating Disability in the Works of Lisa Bufano, Ron Athey, and Martin O'Brien
title_fullStr Virtuosic Performance: Rearticulating Disability in the Works of Lisa Bufano, Ron Athey, and Martin O'Brien
title_full_unstemmed Virtuosic Performance: Rearticulating Disability in the Works of Lisa Bufano, Ron Athey, and Martin O'Brien
title_sort virtuosic performance: rearticulating disability in the works of lisa bufano, ron athey, and martin o'brien
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