Contribution in an anthology

Appeared in: Moving Spaces. Enacting Dance, Performance, and the Digital in the Museum

Editor list: Franco, Susanne; Giannachi, Gabriella

Publication year: 2021

Pages: 21-35

ISBN: 978-88-6969-535-3

eISBN: 978-88-6969-534-6

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-534-6/002

Title of series: The future contemporary

Number in series: 1

Abstract: 

This chapter offers an insight into Le Roy’s ‘performed exhibition’ and argues that dance, when taking place in museums, draws the viewer’s attention to the fact that all artworks in the museum are performative in their address to spectators that bring the work about. Looking into the creation of a public in the museum space, I will unpack the public’s ongoing redefinition of the relation between aesthetics and subjectivity, which I see as a way of producing a notion of aesthetic subjectivity. The chapter ultimately shows how the situations created in Retrospective produce a notion of aesthetic subjectivity that takes place after modernism.

Harvard Citation style: Siegmund, G. (2021) Addressing the Situation. Xavier Le Roy’s Retrospective and Aesthetic Subjectivity, in Franco, S. and Giannachi, G. (eds.) Moving Spaces. Enacting Dance, Performance, and the Digital in the Museum. Venezia: Edizioni Ca' Foscari, pp. 21-35. https://doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-534-6/002

APA Citation style: Siegmund, G. (2021). Addressing the Situation. Xavier Le Roy’s Retrospective and Aesthetic Subjectivity. In Franco, S., & Giannachi, G. (Eds.), Moving Spaces. Enacting Dance, Performance, and the Digital in the Museum (pp. 21-35). Edizioni Ca' Foscari. https://doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-534-6/002