The Pingo Doce effect performance and in-betweenness

Main Article Content

David Antunes

Keywords

in-between; performance; spectator; tragedy; action.

Abstract

In this article, the possibility of reading an everyday event, a massive turnout to the supermarket, due to a special promotion, is analyzed and discussed. The author uses the performative dimension and significance of the event, exploring, consequently, the limits of art, in general, and performance and theater, in particular. In the exercise of this reading, common factors are considered in the characterization of the event that is described and discussed, namely: the agents and / or actors, the action, the context, the spectators, the participation, the emotions, the criticism, the implications policies and ethics, etc.

Abstract 567 | PDF (Portuguese) Downloads 377

References

Alworth, D. J. (2010). Supermarket sociology. New Literary History, 41, 301-327.
Baudrillard, J. (1993). The Transparency of Evil – Essays on Extreme Phenomena. Trans. James Benedict. London and NY: Verso.
Danto, A. C. (2007). O mundo da arte. In Carmo D’Orey (Ed.). O Que É a Arte? Uma Perspectiva Analítica (pp.79-99). Lisboa: Dinalivro,.
DeLillo, D. (1984). White Noise. NY: Penguin Books.
Durte, A. (2002). Daniel Miller e a antropologia do consumo. Etnográfica,VI (2), 367-378.
Fried, M. (1998). Art and Objecthood. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press.
Heidegger, M. (1991). A Origem da Obra de Arte. Lisboa: Edições 70.
Miller, D. (1998). A Theory of Shopping. Ithaca and, NY: Cornell UP.
Phelan, P. (1996). Unmarked – The Politics of Performance. London and NY: Routledge.
Schechner, R. (2006). Performance Studies – An Introduction. NY and London: Routledge.
Turner, V. (1969). The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure. Chicago: Aldine Publishing Company.