Ryan Lader wrote \u201cThe Artist is Present and the Emotions are Real: Time, Vulnerability, and Gender in Marina Abramovic\u2019s Performance Art\u201d for his capstone essay in a WR 100 \u201cGendered Expressions of Performance\u201d seminar focused on women playwrights and performance artists. Students\u2019 examination of gender politics culminated with Serbian-born performance artist Marina Abramovic\u2019s 2010 Museum of Modern Art retrospective \u201cThe Artist is Present.\u201d Abramovic\u2019s equally subtle and strenuous performance challenged students\u2019 notions of art, and questioned the importance of gender in a seemingly \u201cgendered-less\u201d performance.<\/p>\n
Lader\u2019s essay does an excellent job of creating a conversation with various (and at times fairly disparate) sources: a gender theorist, a performance artist, and a theatre director. By engaging these sources, Lader finds a way into Abramovic\u2019s cerebral art; he ultimately better understands why her art so fiercely impacts the audience through the critical, and creative, connections he makes. Lader worked especially hard on incorporating Judith Butler\u2019s seminal essay, \u201cPerformative Acts and Gender Constitution,\u201d which was the seminar\u2019s most challenging text. Lader\u2019s rigorous intellectual work to find intersections between Abramovic and Butler paid off: his argument pushes through surface-based and reactionary observations of Abramovic\u2019s controversial performance and examines its subterranean intelligence.<\/p>\n
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