'"What to Perform?" The figural possibilities of performance art history' translated by Roger McKeon as "Que performer?' Les possibilités figures de l'histoire de l'art-performance.

I confess, the title of this article is a little misleading, perhaps even disingenuous. What follows is not explicitly about the figural and does not propose a history of performance art, rather it considers examples of Lyotard’s work in which a trace of the figural can be felt: Que peindre?; Karel Appel: Un geste de couleur and the exhibition Les Immatéraux. The means by which Lyotard responds to art works and the questions they raise, however, has a proximity to performance and the provocations of performance art practice. This is evidenced in a mode of writing and curatorial approach which disturbs chronology and draws attention to the possibilities of presence. The questions asked are always just beginnings.

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