Performance as a Practice of Resistance to Violence in Public Space

Student: Biktimirova Aleksandra

Educational Programme: Culture Studies (Master)

Final Grade: 9

Year of Graduation: 2024

This work examines performance in a broad sense as a practice of resistance to violence, which has such characteristics as: a ritual-game component, a form of articulation of reality, placing the performance in public space and ways of interacting with it, action and participation within the framework of individual artistic practice or political collective, performative actions were defined as a variation of performance with the potential for resistance in the academic and socio-cultural space. Keywords: performance, action, resistance, violence, public space, participation

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