We Could Break Performance - James Knott and Vanessa Godden
We Could Break Performance Episode 2, featuring Archer Pechawis, is available to watch now. This episode touches upon artists getting naked, the potent potentials of smell in performance, wether performance art is allowed to entertain, and the difference between employing and deploying discomfort.
We Could Break Performance is a podcast by Vanessa Godden and James Knott hosted by FADO
James and Vanessa are investigating the question:
“How do we evaluate the substance of tropes enacted in performance art?”
Each episode of will We Could Break Performance will feature a local performance artist and ourselves in conversation, to help us tackle our dilemma and provide perspective on the values of performance art tropes that we may share or disagree on. Does performance go harder if the performer gets harmed? Or is that negligence in disguise. Is endurance awe-worthy? Or is it sometimes used to unpoetic ends? Does nudity really bare all? Perhaps by the end this series’ run, we could break performance.
Episode 1: Francisco-Fernando Granados
Episode 2: Archer Pechawis
Episode 3: Erika DeFreitas