osmotic performances
In my research the performance art is seen as a production, and part of a larger discourse of the production of subjectivity. I attempt to research the strategies of production of desires in the field of social environment. The production of subjectivization is a different than the process of general individualization, which in turn creates personalities, and is part of a post-fordist capitalist project. In contrast, the production of subjectivization is based on potentiality and general intellect, and is a transformative force. The production of the self or subject is the bone and marrow of capitalism, it is the basis of all production. We are living in the era, where the self is taught to be nurtured with art and culture as well. The creative self has a increasing value on the speculative market. Performance art is part of the production of subjectivity in the cognitive labor; production of cultural values and other capitalistic production, go side by side. Art is not a production of utopias – nor dystopias – but something real, yet synthetic. It is a production of subjectivity, where nothing is more unreal and synthetic than subjectivity itself, which is a collection of multitude of contemplations. In a way, performance art and labor have converged with each other. “When self-exploitation acquires a central role in the process of valorization, the production of subjectivity becomes a terrain of the central conflict” says Andre Gorz and defines the relationship between the cognitive capitalism and the general intellect.
