A Stage Presence: Michael Kirby’s Embedded Sculptures

Streitberger, Alexander

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June 01 2017

A Stage Presence: Michael Kirby’s Embedded Sculptures

Alexander Streitberger

Alexander Streitberger is Professor of Art History at the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium, and Director of the Lieven Gevaert Research Centre for Photography, Art, and Visual Culture. He is joint editor of the Lieven Gevaert Series of books on the history and theory of photography. His recent publications include Shifting Places: Peter Downsbrough, the Photographs (Leuven University Press, 2011); De l’autoportrait à l’autobiographie (Minard, 2011); Heterogeneous Objects: Intermedia and Photography after Modernism (Leuven University Press, 2013); and The Photofilmic. Entangled Images in Contemporary Art and Visual Culture (Leuven University Press, 2016). [email protected]

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Alexander Streitberger

Alexander Streitberger is Professor of Art History at the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium, and Director of the Lieven Gevaert Research Centre for Photography, Art, and Visual Culture. He is joint editor of the Lieven Gevaert Series of books on the history and theory of photography. His recent publications include Shifting Places: Peter Downsbrough, the Photographs (Leuven University Press, 2011); De l’autoportrait à l’autobiographie (Minard, 2011); Heterogeneous Objects: Intermedia and Photography after Modernism (Leuven University Press, 2013); and The Photofilmic. Entangled Images in Contemporary Art and Visual Culture (Leuven University Press, 2016). [email protected]

Online ISSN: 1531-4715

Print ISSN: 1054-2043

2017

TDR/The Drama Review (2017) 61 (2 (234)): 105–116.

https://doi.org/10.1162/DRAM_a_00650

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Well-known for his writing on Happenings, performance art, and avantgarde theatre, Michael Kirby also produced a series of highly notable photo-sculptures. Developed in conjunction with the theoretical concept of “situational aesthetics,” these “embedded sculptures” were conceived of as “visual instruments” that explored the relationship of space, time, context, and beholder.

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