La génétique de la performance artistique entre la génétique du spectacle et la génétique du dessin

Abstract

Performance art is considered as a living art, an art of the present, an art with an ephemeral character. Yet the process of creating performance goes beyond the mere presence of a here and now. In the process of the performance art, there are material traces that remain and become documents that ensure a good part of its performativity. The preparatory drawings of performance occupies a very important place in this process. It is in these drawn traces that we can retrace and discover the genesis of the performative work. The genetic perspective then becomes a privileged path in the study of the creative process of the performance art. Our position on the genetics of performance art lies precisely between the genetics of the performance (or staging) and the genetics of drawing. What differentiates the genetics of the show (Féral, 2011) from the genetics of the performance art is the implication of the genetics of the drawing (Boubli, 2012), the preparatory drawing, in relation to the image of the performance.