My current research question is : How can I use multidisciplinary performance art to explore the intersection between the systems of Patriarchy, Capitalism and Colonialism ?
At this particular stage I would like to use stereotypical aesthetics and rituals of Love in this exploration. Why?
1. The way we Love , and we are taught to understand Love shapes not only our individual behaviour in the romantic sense, but also I the societal and cultural sphere , as seen in previous entries where I visited bell hook’s and Michelle Foucault’s writings.
2. Because after the Western Romantic period in the 19th century Love aesthetics and rituals have been slowly associated with the feminine, and therefore often dismissed as being of low culture or pop value– in opposition with High Art value. For instance, Love songs and Telenovelas in Latin America. I have previously touch upon it on the entry ‘In Defense of Mestiza Art’, but I will continue to explore it through the texts and ideas of Pierre Bourdieu and Kirsch, Trash and Camp movements/subcultures.
Important Terminologies
• Performance: 1.The execution of an action, something accomplished 2.The fulfilment of a claim, promise, or request : IMPLEMENTATION 3. A public presentation or exhibition 4.The manner in which a mechanism performs 5.The manner of reacting to stimuli : BEHAVIOUR 6.The linguistic behaviour of an individual : PAROLE, also : the ability to speak a certain language.
• Performance Art: A non-traditional art form often with political or topical themes that typically features a live presentation to an audience or onlookers (as on a street) and draws on such arts as acting, poetry, music, dance, or painting.
• Intersection: 1.a place or area where two or more things (such as streets) intersect 2.the act or process of intersecting 3. the set of elements common to two or more sets especially : the set of points common to two geometric configurations b: the operation of finding the intersection of two or more sets
• Intersectionality: The complex, cumulative way in which the effects of multiple forms of discrimination (such as racism, sexism, and classism) combine, overlap, or intersect especially in the experiences of marginalized individuals or groups
• System : 1. a regularly interacting or interdependent group of items forming a unified whole 2. an organized set of doctrines, ideas, or principles usually intended to explain the arrangement or working of a systematic whole 3. an organized or established procedure 4.harmonious arrangement or pattern : ORDER 5. an organized society or social situation regarded as stultifying or oppressive : ESTABLISHMENT
- Disruption : the act or process of disrupting something : a break or interruption in the normal course or continuation of some activity, process, etc.
• Patriarchy: 1. social organization marked by the supremacy of the father in the clan or family, the legal dependence of wives and children, and the reckoning of descent and inheritance in the male linebroadly : control by men of a disproportionately large share of power 2. a society or institution organized according to the principles or practices of patriarchy
• Colonialism: 1. domination of a people or area by a foreign state or nation : the practice of extending and maintaining a nation’s political and economic control over another people or area , the policy of or belief in acquiring and retaining colonies (NOTE: While the word colonialism is sometimes considered to encompass non-state forms of influence and domination, as by corporate or religious entities, in general use it is more typically understood as an extension of state power.) 2. old-fashioned : the quality or state of being a colony or of behaving like a colony.
• Capitalism: An economic system characterized by private or corporate ownership of capital goods, by investments that are determined by private decision, and by prices, production, and the distribution of goods that are determined mainly by competition in a free market.
• Love: 1. strong affection for another arising out of kinship or personal ties, an assurance of affection b) attraction based on sexual desire : affection and tenderness felt by lovers c) affection based on admiration, benevolence, or common interests 2. warm attachment, enthusiasm, or devotion 3.the object of attachment, devotion, or admiration 4. unselfish loyal and benevolent (see BENEVOLENT sense 1a) concern for the good of another: such as 5. a god (such as Cupid or Eros) or personification of love 6. an amorous episode : LOVE AFFAIR 7.the sexual embrace : COPULATION 8.a score of zero (as in tennis) 9. Christian Science : GOD
• High Art : art which deals with lofty and dignified subjects and is characterized by an elevated style avoiding all meretricious display.
• Meretricious : 1 .apparently attractive but having no real value 2.relating to or characteristic of a prostitute ( Archaic)
• High Culture : (noun) Cultural aspects (material and non-material) considered superior and typically associated with and consumed by the elites of society: the well-educated or wealthy.
• Low Culture : 1. (noun) A form of popular culture that has mass appeal 2. a derogatory term for forms of popular culture that have mass appeal.