Black Box, White Cube, Gray Zone: Dance Exhibitions and Audience Attention

Authors

Claire Bishop, CUNY Graduate CenterFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

Summer 2018

Abstract

Relocated from the “black box” of experimental theatre to the “white cube” of the gallery, dance in the museum brings about new forms of performance — the dance exhibition — and new protocols of audience behavior that permit, even encourage, smartphone photography. This is the “gray zone” of recent performance, which is both a symptom of, and compensation for, the virtualization of contemporary perception.

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This article was originally published in TDR: The Drama Review, available at https://muse.jhu.edu/article/695785