Demystifying the Performance Authentic: Translation, Preference and the New Aesthetic

Title: Demystifying the Performance Authentic: Translation, Preference and the New Aesthetic
Author: Christopher McFetridge
Faculty Sponsor: Mark Perlman; Gavin Keulks
Date: 6/1/2012
Abstract: Judgments of performance art are often contingent upon a notion of Authenticity. What we mean by authentic, however, is not readily accessible. An exploration of proposed authenticity-theories can help reveal the merits and impediments contained within those theories--and may ultimately suggest an Authentic-metric. However, such an analysis leads, counter intuitively, to the jeopardization of the term. We can suggest, in virtue of our analysis, that formal inconsistencies within the Authentic-metric promote a more elusive aesthetic discourse than otherwise necessary. By endorsing direct aesthetic discourse we can remove the obscured lens of Authenticity and begin encountering works as they are truly presented.
Type: Text; Honors Thesis
Department: Honors Program
Language: eng
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Identifier: honors_theses/57