ABSTRACT

Anarchistory of Performance, a heresy in action

Performance-lecture by Luis Guerra
There are performances that have no fixed abode in the Arts.
Invisible to the norm unname! they !"ell a noma!ic an!
unsettle! con!ition !isappearin# as surplus holes of the
situation. Throu#h a subtractive strate#y I ar#ue these
performances ren!er a subversive accumulation of routine an!
or!inary #estures a#ainst Capital nomenclature.
$y proposal consists in a performance-lecture conforme! by a
se%uence of reenactments that "ill compose an Anarchistory of
Performance. This performance "ill raise %uestions re#ar!in# my
o"n research& 'hat (in! of philosophical conceptuali)ation
emer#es from a non-spectacular performativity "or(in# throu#h
subtractive proce!ures of loss friction an! !isappearance* Is
it possible to name these artistic an! social proce!ures "hich
are alrea!y effective beyon! the boun!aries of contemporary art
institutions* I propose to a!!ress these issues throu#h a
threefol! conceptual plane forme! by +ames C. Scott,s Art of
not Bein# Governe!- Ray Brassier,s .ihil /nboun! an! Alain
Ba!iou,s Lo#ics of 'orl!s.
$y aim is to sho" throu#h a performance act that this homeless
Performativity proposes to Philosophy a liminal ra!ical an!
unstable script "illin# to create ne" territories of speculation
by its apparent ine0istence.