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- Title
Towards an Audience Vocabulary: General Idea's Re-Routing of the Audience Feedback Loop.
- Authors
Olds, Kirsten Fleur
- Abstract
In three performances from the mid 1970s, the Canadian trio General Idea explores the nature of what constitutes an audience and interrogates the basis of performance art. These performances are dry-runs, or rehearsals for a beauty pageant planned for 1984. Yet rather than the performers on stage, it is the audience who is being rehearsed, as they are instructed to perform stock reactions on cue. These performances, generally referred to as General Idea's "audience rehearsals," have yet to be fully examined, especially in light of the ways in which they foreground the fluidity of subject positions of the audience and performers. I draw on anthropological constructs and ideas about feedback systems to demonstrate how General Idea initiates a productive re-framing of the performer-audience relationship.
- Subjects
AUDIENCES; BEAUTY contests; PERFORMANCE art; VOCABULARY
- Publication
Liminalities, 2020, Vol 16, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
1557-2935
- Publication type
Article