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California State University Art Museum, Long Beach Split Moment SPLIT MOMENT January 27 – April 15, 2012 SPLIT MOMENT What is thus designated as a moment of presence always has to posit another, prior moment and so implicitly loses its status as a point of origin. —Paul de Man, 1971 How is it different to experience a performance as it commentary on how such technologies are more than unfolds or to watch it later through its documentation? a vehicle or channel for content, but instead become While some claim attending a performance is distinct content itself. 1 In the context of this exhibition, the term from viewing a video, others insist the boundaries “mediation” describes the process by which media both between a live event and its recording are fundamentally gain such agency and constrain human experience. As blurred. Split Moment is a reconsideration of the question media theorists W. J. T. Mitchell and Mark B. N. Hansen of “presence” during live performance. The artists in the have suggested, in the social domain within which culture exhibition document performance not as a record of a and life happen, “media are our situation.” 2 live event, but rather, as a form of mediation between its various components. Josh Azzarella, Trisha Brown, Postmodernism marks both the period that follows Jocelyn Foye, Babette Mangolte, Yvonne Rainer, and Flora Modernism and a new cultural mindset through Wiegmann expand the definition of both what counts as which the principles of Modernism were critiqued.3 performance and what is considered as documentation. Postmodernist and Poststructuralist theorists working in For them, mediation becomes part of the medium of a the 60s reconsidered long-held metaphysical assumptions work of art and thus, the live event and its afterlife as a about the human subject as a “unified presence” in time recording are inextricably bound. and space. Such concepts as the “artist as genius” rely on the notion of an autonomous subject wholly present to There are many options for engaging with a performed him or herself. Through their analysis, Postmodernist and event in addition to “being there.” Since the 60s, Poststructuralist theorists revealed how language and technologies such as photography, video, and live- images modify and complicate human experience. They streaming have exponentially proliferated in our daily lives, thereby exposed the impossibility for any subject to be to a point some see as total intrusion. In 1964, media wholly autonomous. analyst and philosopher Marshall McLuhan famously proclaimed, “the medium is the message,” providing 2 In the artistic arena, the embrace of Postmodernism Traditionally, a dancer or performer is differentiated resulted in the dissolution of divisions between visual from the audience through technical ability. The theater media such as painting or sculpture, as well as the proscenium, which dates back to ancient Rome, distinctions between the plastic and the performing arts. architecturally reinforces Western conventions and is As part of their collaborative interventions, Postmodern a familiar structure to divide the audience from the artists also drew upon ordinary life, rather than staged event. In this format, all eyes are directed towards emphasizing skill or creating art as a spectacle. With the the spectacle on stage. In deliberate defiance of such development of performance art and other experimental traditions, the Judson Theatre relocated the audience modes, such as participatory Happenings or installations, onto a shared plane with the performance and eliminated the boundaries between what could and could not be costumes, makeup, sets, and theatrical lighting. They considered art became even more blurred. Called into replaced the traditional audience/performer relationship question by these activities were Modernist assumptions with an awareness of the performers’ bodies in space as about performance as being limited to a singular “live” well as a reconsideration of the viewer’s presence. event in space and time that could be experienced only by a present audience. By 1967, TVs could be found in ninety-eight percent of American households.7 Such widespread incorporation Developments in performance and dance were consistent of televised media redefined lived experience. Many with, and at times magnified by, the changes visual arts individuals could witness worldwide events simultaneously underwent during the 60s and 70s.4 The Judson Dance from their own living rooms. Broadcast images provided Theatre, a collective of dancers from Greenwich Village, viewers with a sense of immediacy, despite the fact pioneered many of these transformations by employing they could have taken place thousands of miles away. new and experimental media and dance forms. The group Experience clearly shifted to operate through a system of emerged in 1962 from classes taught by avant-garde mediation and “real” life became at times indistinguishable musician Robert Dunn in which collective members from its televised transmission. mobilized new theories of composition to radicalize dance.5 Instead of emphasizing technical skill and visually Several of the Judson Theatre’s iconic dances from striking movements, their work incorporated ordinary the 70s were performed and re-staged for television. activities. The group experimented with vernacular Moreover, they exploited the newly mediated expressions in dance, creating pieces for which any relationship between viewer and documentation through action such as sneezing, coughing, skipping, and walking choreography. As art historian Carrie Lambert-Beatty were all considered to be artistic content.6 Through their suggests in a monograph on Judson performer Yvonne choreographies, the Judson Theatre thereby disrupted the Rainer, the dances were made as if they were seen attitude towards dance as a spectacular event. through the lens of a camera—impersonal and grayscale.8 5 In 1965, Rainer proclaimed, “No to spectacle, no to dependencies of performance to the concept of presence virtuosity, no to transformations and magic and make by directly citing Derrida’s theories.13 Responding to believe.” 9 The ideas with which the Judson Theatre feminist scholar Peggy Phelan’s contemporaneous position experimented echoed the zeitgeist of the era. In 1967, that a “performance’s life is only in the present,” Jones Guy Debord published Society of the Spectacle, a Marxist argued for the value and importance of alternatives to critique of what he saw as the commercialization of all understanding live performance.14 In Phelan’s pioneering aspects of life.10 For Debord, the modern spectacle of the essay, she discussed performance art in theoretical performer had been replaced by a “society of spectacle” terms, emphasizing the ways the genre could challenge in which all relationships were mediated and formed by artistic traditions and the art market. For Jones however, mechanized images. Phelan’s claim was overstated, as “pure presence is an outdated remnant of modernism.”15 According to Jones, Poststructuralism provided a way of thinking that the fractured postmodern body can be best represented connected and reshaped conventions across various through mediated forms as opposed to attempts at academic disciplines. Key to this process was French momentary presence. philosopher Jacques Derrida, who critiqued the assumption that one could be fully present at a given Performance theorist André Lepecki has extensively moment in space and time. 11 Différance is Derrida’s term explored the relationships between dance and writing.16 for these perpetual disparities in human perception.12 In both activities, he sees erasure and non-presence Différance can be thought of as the received word— enacted.17 These elements of dance reveal, especially delayed in time and deferred through space. According through movement, a process defined by changes in time to Derrida, nothing can be perceived or understood and space, further complicating any understanding of a precisely as it happens. For example, speech is heard in unified presence. Lepecki’s study thus casts dance as a the split second after sound waves are received, and only genre that necessarily problematizes “presence” in all of then translated by its recipient (or audience). the ways discussed here. Performance, like speech, can never be perceived as Working contemporaneously with Derrida’s and other encompassing presence at any one moment. From a similar developments of ideas, the Judson Theatre Poststructuralist perspective, a gap exists between an formulated a performance model that would foreground event’s occurrence and its reception, even when the the inevitability of mediation. For example, they challenged viewer and the performer share the same space at a the viewer to consider interactive processes by mimicking live event. Because the performer is never experienced the experience of viewing via documentation even during as fully present, a live performance may be considered the performance itself.18 By highlighting the delayed and as mediated and disjointed as that of its recording. In deferred experience, live performance was freed from its 1998, art historian Amelia Jones critiqued traditional temporal and spatial confines. 6 Such theories and practices developed in the early postmodern period paved the way for the contemporary multimedia practices of the artists in Split Moment.19 Since that time, methods for documentation and mediation have grown exponentially. Debord’s “society of spectacle” foreshadowed today’s proliferation of the “hyperreal.”20 Contemporary
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