
doi: 10.16995/bst.358
I consider that ‘Hybridity’ in performance is definable as, variously, the blurring and combining of traditional theatre, dance, music, art and ‘everyday life’ into single works; the trading of differences between ‘high’ and ‘low’ cultural registers; the merging together of seemingly inconsistent notions of time, space and identity, and the destabilization of audience identification and affective standpoints. Anne Imhof’s hybridized performance is a fusion of media: painting, music and architecture, also known for its particular vocabulary of movement, its multi-layeredness, and incorporation of technology. There is an emphasis on the sensual and playful nature of the body, which, by experimental and technological means, is extended, reconfigured and yet identifiable as a locus of infinite variability. My paper will address theoretical sources before moving on to how these have manifested and been reciprocally reinterpreted by a variety of approaches in Imhof’s realisation of her work Sex performed in the Tate Modern ‘Tanks’ in London 2019.
Fine Arts, Multi-layeredness, Music-Drama, Hybridity, N, Temporal effect, Richard Wagner, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Somatized empathy, Sex, Anne Imhof, Experimental aesthetics, Friedrich Nietzsche, ‘Total Art-Work’ (Gessamtkunstwerk)
Fine Arts, Multi-layeredness, Music-Drama, Hybridity, N, Temporal effect, Richard Wagner, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Somatized empathy, Sex, Anne Imhof, Experimental aesthetics, Friedrich Nietzsche, ‘Total Art-Work’ (Gessamtkunstwerk)
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