CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2021
| Author | Ozev, Cemre |
|---|---|
| Title | An Investigation of Political Performance Acts: A Possibility of Constructive Action Through Collaborative Performance |
| Summary | In this research, I investigate political performance acts which are collaborative from a phenomenological perspective. Collaborative performances alter the audience’s position to an active participant, inviting them to explore their own experiences while suggesting a subversive openness where a shift in perspective can emerge with political intervention. Performative politics suggests an active resistance to normative performativity as well as aides in creating a space that can potentially subvert social boundaries where participants' experiences are shaped with and by each other. The thesis questions constructive possibilities through collaborative performance pieces; and their political potential compared to classical forms of demonstrations and other art forms. Nowadays, creative forms of protests are prominently employed for political actions. I argue that participatory political performance acts have a privileged position for conducting examples of activism. They are shaping opinions through creating lived experiences for the agent and affecting them. To prove this, I look at collaborative performance art pieces which have oppositional political aims; and political protest acts that the Populist Right undertook. Through this unorthodox contact, I dismantle how performative acts can achieve political ends as a strategy. Phenomenological methods of Heidegger, Levinas, and Merleau-Ponty are incorporated for analyzing subject’s lived experiences during the collaborative performance pieces. Furthermore, the works of Gould, Arendt, and Mouffe aid in creating a theoretical framework to explain protests of Turkish Right. Through analyzing them, I aim to dismantle the dominant nationalist discourse. |
| Supervisor | Weberman, David |
| Department | Philosophy MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2021/ozev_cemre.pdf |
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