다큐멘터리와 아방가르드의 접점에서

• 영문명: In the Conjunction of Documentary and the Avant-Garde: Some Performative Reflections on the Performative Documentary
• 발행기관: 한국영화학회
• 저자명: 서현석
• 간행물 정보: 『영화연구』제43호, 229~271쪽, 전체 43쪽
• 주제분류: 예술체육 > 예술일반
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2010.03.31

영문 초록

The starting point of this study is the recognition of drastic paradigmatic shifts in recent documentaries concerning the treatment of reality. Rather than observing, recording, mediating, or re-enacting reality, such films as Cech Dream and Eternal Frame prompt a specific situation for the very purpose of filming. This paper deals with such practices and interrogates their rhetoric and aesthetic implications by appropriating the concept of “performativity.”Since the concept of “performativity” has come to use in various fields, this study acknowledges the necessity for interdisciplinary approaches. In particular, it illuminates the “performative” documentary as an organic trajectory in which documentary and the avant-garde share the common motivation, namely to question the law behind the construction of reality. In order to fully explicate the rhetoric mechanism of “performativity,” I incorporate J. L. Austin's landmark study on the performative utterance and Judith Butler's political expansion of the term. By exercising in deceptively simple ways “détournement,” a common strategy developed in the avant-garde art since the 1970's, named performative documentaries tend to suspend a conclusive understanding of the world and produce hermeneutic rifts that unsettle the very working mechanisms of language within the capitalist system, which are precisely the functions of performativity. The importance of the performative documentary lies in its questioning of the very foundation and function upon which the concept of documentary has been fabricated.

목차

1. 서론: ‘현실’과 ‘창의성’

2. 다큐멘터리와 아방가르드, 멀고도 가까운 영역

3. 아방가르드 전략으로서의 다큐멘터리

4. 수행성의 언어철학적 기능

5. 수행성의 정치적 확장

6. 가변적 현실에 대한 가변적 결론

키워드

documentary avant-garde performativity philosophy of language video art performance art ethnography post-medium relational art