Performance Conceptualism: From Semantics to Body Language

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https://doi.org/10.24231/wisdom.v21i1.614

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performativity, performance, agent, action art, body, corporeity, actionism, installation, gesture, presence

Abstract

The research focuses on the philosophy of performative actionism. It refers to the contemporary practices of installations, happenings, monstrations and flash mobs on different topics as to the concept of pure action. Performance is regarded as the relevant understanding technique to manifest the currently popular dynamism principle of arts and philosophical anthropology. The research aims to analyse the art experience of the subject’s bodily actions to demonstrate their anthropological authenticity, social significance, legal value, epistemological activity, and political will. As a result, authors conclude that non-semantic silent performances reveal limited possibilities of modern human self-realisation despite having several rights, freedoms and technologies to improve their lives. Performance is viewed as a conceptual model of individual functioning in the polyontic reality. As an alternative to the linguistic one, self-representation through performance is a rather flawed but relevant means of showing the nature of the subject’s existence in the contemporary social, legal, political and cultural environment.

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Author Biographies

Yuliia MELIAKOVA , Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University, Kharkiv, Ukraine

PhD in Philosophy, Associate Professor of Philosophy Department at Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University, Kharkiv, Ukraine. Her areas of interest include philosophy of law, philosophical anthropology, hermeneutics, social philosophy. Yuliia Meliakova is the author of more than 80 scientific papers, among which there are publications in scientometric databases Scopus Web of Science. Recent publications: “The Problem of Deficit of Reality: a Subject of Law as the Person who is Present”, “Posthumanistic Culture through the Prism of Natural Human Rights”, “Semiotics of Gesture: Performative Conceptualism”, “Posthuman Freedom as the Right to Unlimited Pleasure”.

Ganna KRAPIVNYK , H. S. Skovoroda Kharkiv National Pedagogical University, Kharkiv, Ukraine

Dr. of Science in Philosophy, Associate Professor of the Department of English Philology, H. S. Skovoroda Kharkiv National Pedagogical University, Ukraine. Her areas of interest include philosophy of culture, linguoculturology, culturology, media studies, intertextuality and sociolinguistics. Ganna Krapivnyk is the author of nearly 40 research papers, including a monograph, articles in scientometric databases, in particular, a paper indexed in Scopus and a paper published and pending for the Web of Science indexing. Among her recent publications: “Apocalyptic motifs and images in media texts on Brexit and Ukrainian elections” “Vocabulary flexibility and development promoted by covid-19 pandemic”.

Inna KOVALENKO, Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University

PhD in Philosophy, Associate Professor of Philosophy Department at Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University, Kharkiv, Ukraine. Her areas of interest include philosophy of law, theory of culture, philosophy of human rights, cultural phenomena in a post-digital society. Kovalenko have over 70 publications, including а monographs and journal articles, which are indexed in Scopus, Web of Science, Copernicus and other platforms. Recent publications: “Metamorphoses of Historicity in Modern Culture”, “Socio-Cultural Reflection in Phenomenological Paradigm: Opportunities and Prospects”, “The Phenomenology of Creativity in Digital Era”.

Eduard KALNYTSKYI, Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University, Kharkiv, Ukraine

PhD in Philosophy, Associate Professor of Philosophy Department of Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University, Kharkiv, Ukraine. Her areas of interest include the areas of her interest include political philosophy, philosophical anthropology, and philosophy of law. Kalnytskyi has over 50 publications, including collective monographs and journal articles, which are indexed in Scopus, Web of Science, Copernicus and other platforms. Recent publications: “Conspiracy Thinking in the Dynamics of Modern Culture: characteristics and Features of Manifestation”, “The Phenomenon of Corporeality in the Performative Paradigm: From Gatherings to Political Issues”, “Personal Information Rights and Freedoms within the Modern Society”.

Svitlana ZHDANENKO, Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University, Kharkiv, Ukraine

PhD in Philosophy, Associate Professor of Philosophy Department of Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University, Kharkiv, Ukraine. Her areas of interest include philosophy of law, theory of culture, philosophy of human rights. Kovalenko has over 70 publications, including collective monographs and journal articles, which are indexed in Scopus, Web of Science, Copernicus and other platforms. Recent publications: “Attribution and Modality of Responsibility in the Information Society”, “Performance in the Postmodern Culture and Law”, “Performance in the Methodology of Philosophy of Law”, “Problems of Adaptation of a Man to the Conditions of Information Society”.

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2022-03-28

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MELIAKOVA , Y. ., KRAPIVNYK , G. ., KOVALENKO, I., KALNYTSKYI, E., & ZHDANENKO, S. . (2022). Performance Conceptualism: From Semantics to Body Language. WISDOM, 21(1), 139–153. https://doi.org/10.24231/wisdom.v21i1.614

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