Hunter, V (2022) 'Traversing terrain and staying put: performing endurance.' In: Salazar, N and Scheerder, J, eds. Contemporary meanings of endurance: an interdisciplinary approach. Routledge, Abingdon, pp. 40-59. ISBN 9781032343853
Abstract
This chapter explores parallels between endurance events (such as long-distance running and charity fundraising challenges) and artistic modes of site-based performance that employ endurance methods, formats, and paradigms. The discussion considers how meanings of endurance are constructed and conveyed across both contexts and it questions how one realm informs the other, and what might be gained from exploring points of connection, overlaps, and divergence between the two. Endurance in this writing refers to a physical act in which the body is pushed to extremes over a designated, and often prolonged, period of time and is related to events in which the body is put to work in a particular manner. Endurance as a form of work emerges as a sub-theme throughout this discussion informed by the various practices of labour and repetition employed within public performances, physical endurance events, and everyday acts of perdurance. These discussions provoke closer inspection of particular approaches to body-environment relations in a range of contexts. The final section explores where performative acts retreat to in a global pandemic, leading to reflection on feats of endurance, perdurance, and performance acts in domestic spaces.
| Item Type: | Book Chapter or Section |
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| Note: | The chapter is available to read at the URL below. |
| Divisions: | Bath School of Music and Performing Arts |
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| Date Deposited: | 30 Nov 2024 16:05 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Dec 2024 10:29 |
| URI / Page ID: | https://researchspace.bathspa.ac.uk/id/eprint/16738 |
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