The performance of Last Words
A play of relational aesthetics
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12370504 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kirt A Shineman (Communication and World Languages Dept., Glendale Community College, Glendale, AZ 85013, USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 44 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 117-132 |
| Publication date | 2023-04-25 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Text and Performance Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1046-2937 • E-ISSN: 1479-5760 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/10462937.2023.2202711 |
| OpenAlex | W4367054547 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 10 |
This essay frames the Last Words' script and how an audience participates in the performance to create meaning and enhance relational aesthetics. I use a second-person narrative to focus on the audience, both as the subject and the play's content, and to demonstrate the performance indeterminacy of the experience. I present the author as an equal audience member rather than from an authoritarian perspective (Gesuato) to help consider how an audience participates in making meaning. Finally, through Last Words, I posit the structure I used to create the script can be applied to various epistolatory documents
Aesthetics · Art · Audience reception · Epistemology · Focus (optics · Indeterminacy (philosophy · Linguistics · Meaning (existential · Media studies · Narrative · Perspective (graphical · Sociology · Subject (documents · Visual arts · Computer Science · Hermeneutics and Narrative Identity · Narrative Theory and Analysis · Philosophy · Psychology · Theatre and Performance Studies
| Citations per year | 0.67 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |