Pensar a Fotografia como Performance. Notas preambulares para uma proposta metodológica.

Abstract

Photographing the theatre performance represents a significant theoretical challenge for reflection on photography, as it makes explicit a series of knots and tensions underlying its own language and ontology, namely the notions of document/interpretation, index/icon, presence/absence, instant/duration. Furthermore, theatre photography questions the meaning of the direct experience of performance, of liveness and its mediation. Based on the analysis of some examples, this presentation proposes to frame these tensions in the light of different performance theories, such as Austin's performative enunciations, or Ficher-Lichte's aesthetics of the performative. Thinking of Photography as Performance allows us to contribute to the development of a coherent and original hermeneutic grid that is potentially fruitful also for the general theory of photography itself.