Black box, white cube, gray zone

Dance exhibitions and audience attention

Authors

  • Claire Bishop City University of New York

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26754/ojs_tropelias/tropelias.2021355056

Keywords:

performance, black box, white cube, museum, theatre, dance exhibition, spectatorship, attention

Abstract

Relocated from the “black box” of experimental theatre to the “white cube” of the gallery, dance in the museum brings about new forms of performance —the dance exhibition— and new protocols of audience behavior that permit, even encourage, smartphone photography. This is the “gray zone” of recent performance, which is both a symptom of, and compensation for, the virtualization of contemporary perception.

 

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Author Biography

Claire Bishop, City University of New York

Claire Bishop is Professor in the PhD Program in Art History at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Her books include Installation Art: A Critical History (Routledge, 2005); Artificial Hells: Participatory Art and the Politics of Spectatorship (Verso, 2012), for which she won the 2013 Frank Jewett Mather award; and Radical Museology, or, What’s Contemporary in Museums of Contemporary Art? (Walther König, 2013). She is a regular contributor to Artforum, and her essays and books have been translated into 18 languages.

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Published

2021-01-30

How to Cite

Bishop, C. (2021). Black box, white cube, gray zone: Dance exhibitions and audience attention. Tropelías: Review of Literary Theory and Comparative Literature, (35), 43–69. https://doi.org/10.26754/ojs_tropelias/tropelias.2021355056

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