SOME ASPECTS OF THE PERFORMANCE ART AND THE BODILY-BEING-IN-THE-WORLD

This work aims at pointing out some changes in the meaning of certain traditional aesthetic concepts when they are used to analyze events of the performance art. We consider that the philosophy of life of Fr. Nietzsche as well as the phenomenological analysis of perception and the bodily involvement in the world developed by M. Merleau-Ponty are useful instruments in a better comprehension of this contemporary art. Pairs of terms as artist-spectator, subject-object, art-nature, artculture or concepts as perception, culture, time, space, presence, self-referentiality, constitutive acts, artistic "aura" or art as way of "sculpting people" will be analyzed taking into consideration the fundamental condition of bodily-being-in-the-world.