The author discusses walk+talk – Philipp Gehmacher’s durational project inviting choreographers to deal with the driving parameters of their practices in simultaneously physical and verbal solo-explorations on stage.
The author analyses several contemporary performances as examples of artistic critique of current ideological canons and power structures governing labour relations in the globalised capitalist production.
Article exploring the relationship between the critical categories ‘performance’ and ‘labour’ through the broader term ‘practice’ developed in Marx’s more mature writings.