Walker, Nathan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8419-9018 (2024) Writing Performances of the Vocal Body. Journal of Writing in Creative Practice, 16 (1). pp. 67-84.

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Abstract

This article uses in-depth performance descriptions to engage in what Donna Haraway terms the ‘view from a body’ (1988: 589). I frame my practice-led research in performance art by scoring and writing through four selected performances: Nape (2013), Scaw (2014), Mean (2016) and Faults (2019). These performance descriptions are presented as performance documentation providing insight to an established practice in performance art that is language-oriented. This writing is both descriptive and autobiographical and explore methods and tasks that use the vocal-body as ‘writing with the voice’ and ‘live writing’ over extended duration. These texts position the creation of language-oriented performance art from within, expanding and reframing my own performances that bring new understandings on how we read, witness and experience experimental writing practice in performance.

Item Type:	Article
Status:	Published
Subjects:	N Fine Arts > NX Arts in general > NX456.5.P38 Performance Art
School/Department:	School of the Arts
URI:	https://ray.yorksj.ac.uk/id/eprint/7998

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