the Cooper Union School of Art Interdisciplinary Seminar

Video

Rebecca Schneider

The Hard Labor of the Live: Affect, Exchange, and the Immaterial Commodity

This lecture took place on April 15th, 2011 at 6:30pm in the Wollman Auditorium at the Cooper Union

Lecture introduction

If a service economy thrives on the production of affect and the “immaterial labor” associated with the post-industrial condition, in what ways does performance-based work challenge or uphold that condition? Schneider brings this question to recent work in major art museums, such as Tino Sehgal’s Kiss and Marina Abramovic’s The Artist is Present, beside work in theatre such as the Wooster Group’s Poor Theater.

About Rebecca Schneider

Rebecca Schneider is Chair of the Department of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies at Brown University. She is the author of The Explicit Body in Performance (Routledge 1997) and Performing Remains: Art and War in Times of Theatrical Reenactment (Routledge 2011) as well as numerous essays on performance and visual culture. 

Relevant Links

• The Wooster Group: http://vimeo.com/21619178
• Readings for this lecture are available on the student login page.