Narrating General Performance: Art, Life, and Labor in Niña Weijers's The Consequences and Tom Mccarthy's Satin Island

IF 0.1 4区艺术学 0 FILM, RADIO, TELEVISION

FILM CRITICISM Pub Date : 2021-09-01 DOI:10.13110/criticism.63.4.0355

S. Besser

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Abstract

Abstract:This essay explores the fascination with performance and performance art in contemporary fiction in relation to post-Fordist culture and society. I employ the concept of general performance in order to analyze configurations of artistic, professional, and economic performance in Niña Weijers's novel The Consequences (2014) and Tom McCarthy's Satin Island (2015). The readings demonstrate that, in different ways, both novels imagine performance as a key practice at the intersection of art, life, and labor. While Satin Island presents a bleak view of generalized post-Fordist performance, The Consequences insists on discontinuities between artistic and other forms of performance. The essay makes a case for general performance as a key concept for the study of the imagination of immaterial and creative labor in twenty-first-century fiction.

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叙述一般表演:Niña魏杰斯的《后果》和汤姆·麦卡锡的《缎岛》中的艺术、生活和劳动

摘要:本文探讨了后福特主义文化和社会对当代小说中表演和表演艺术的迷恋。为了分析Niña Weijers的小说《后果》(2014)和Tom McCarthy的《缎岛》(2015)中艺术、专业和经济绩效的配置，我采用了一般绩效的概念。阅读材料表明，两部小说都以不同的方式将表演想象成艺术、生活和劳动交汇的关键实践。《缎子岛》对广义的后福特主义表演表现出一种悲观的看法，而《后果》则坚持艺术表演与其他形式表演之间的不连续。本文认为，一般表现是研究21世纪小说中非物质和创造性劳动想象的一个关键概念。

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FILM CRITICISM FILM, RADIO, TELEVISION-

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