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While performance art has grown in popularity since the 1960s, no work has been done to analyze the audience as more than a generic mass. This paper begins to fill that gap, addressing the audience as a material carefully considered by artists as part of the performance. Since performance art is a vast and heterogeneous category, this study limits itself to performance art in public spaces, using ... read moretheories of public space to understand how each artist or group of artists conceptualizes public space and uses the audience within that space. Chapter one considers the Situationist International through the lens of Jurgen Habermas, chapter two applies the work of Rosalyn Deutsche and Laura Mulvey to Valie Export, and chapter three examines Coco Fusco and Guillermo Gomez-Pena in terms of Homi Bhabha. Each work under consideration here calls attention to a hidden lack or inequality in public space, using the audience as the site on which that inequality is first made visible and then subverted.read less
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