How to measure performance? About the apparatus that did not want to be a tool Cover Image

Jak mierzyć performans? O aparaturze, która nie chciała być narzędziem
How to measure performance? About the apparatus that did not want to be a tool

Author(s): Magdalena Zamorska
Subject(s): Sociology of Art
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego
Keywords: performance; measurement; knowledge; apparatus; tool;

Summary/Abstract: The author asks about the neutrality of research procedures. She argues that artistic performance, even without explicitly seeking such a goal, can depict the workings of scientific performance. She looks at the arrangement of an artistic-research performance and interprets two activities carried out as part of the experiment_e.1/2015–2017 project of the Art and Research Foundation om — Organisms and Machines in Culture, showing that artistic performance can prove one of the theorems of theoretical physics (the so-called measurement problem), according to which it is impossible to separate the measured object from the person doing the measuring. The question about measurement is also a question about the nature of knowledge: its performative (self)production with the participation of people, devices, discourses and matter.

  • Issue Year: 26/2022
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 31-43
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Polish
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