The killing of Chief Crazy Horse – An allegory in 3 parts

Keywords:

performancetext theory/Practice re-enactment documentation theatre play

Available in:

JVAP 8.1&2 - about JVAP

Funded by:

NAFAE - about NAFAE

Pulished:

May 2009

Article abstract

To write a ‘performative text’ is to produce a piece of writing which is necessarily active, an open dialogue with itself and the reader, full of interjections and mutations. The following text is a theatre play, framed by parameters of an academic paper – an introduction and footnotes – that function as a parallel dialogue to the play, a set of interruptions and meta-texts. The intention here is to try and see how the artwork can be mapped out as a text, in and of itself, and to approach the theory-practice conundrum from this point of view, rather than as a body of practice serving as an appendage to a parallel enquiry, or vice versa.

Written by: Shezad Dawood

Other articles in: JVAP Volume 8 Issue 1&2, Journal of Visual Art Practice