The presence of the past: temporality, ontology, and the prehistory of performance

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-1-2024

Abstract

While the ontology of performance remains contested between mandates of essential disappearance and essential persistence, the theories of performance’s temporality remain underdeveloped. This paper utilizes a limit-case of performance criticism—Paleolithic cave art—as a means of examining alternative temporalities and ontologies of performance made possible through new materialist and posthumanist frameworks.

Publication Source (Journal or Book title)

Text and Performance Quarterly

First Page

254

Last Page

270

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