The reparative potential of performance: Exploring the work of Aliza Shvarts as negotiations of harm and healing
Wills, Savannah
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Title
The reparative potential of performance: Exploring the work of Aliza Shvarts as negotiations of harm and healing
Author(s)
Wills, Savannah
Issue Date
2024-12-13
Director of Research (if dissertation) or Advisor (if thesis)
Weissman , Terri
Department of Study
Art & Design
Discipline
Art History
Degree Granting Institution
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Degree Name
M.A.
Degree Level
Thesis
Keyword(s)
Performance
Repair
Abstract
What do the theories and practices of reparation offer that justice cannot, and how can artistic practice, especially performance, help to cultivate a kind of radical care that survival amidst multiple systems of oppression require? This paper aims to contribute to the ongoing discourse within art history about the intersection of reparation and artistic practice through an analysis of Aliza Shvarts’s work, which emerges in its fullness as a series of works that should be seen as reiterations and renegotiations—that is, as parts of a dialogue rather than individual statements. Moreover, it is in this communicative aspect, I contend, where we begin to see how performance art can address harm caused by structural violences, specifically gender-based violence.
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