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Please Don’t Touch the Artwork

Abstraction, Control, and Faye Driscoll’s Come On In

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 December 2023

Miriam Felton-Dansky
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Abstract

Choreographer and performance-maker Faye Driscoll’s performance installation Come On In (2020) offered spectators an aesthetic experience that included very little physical contact—yet investigated deeply the nature of physical touch. The sensation, artistic implications, and sociopolitical valences of touch provoke a rich and complex set of questions for considering artistic, physical, and gendered forms of control across performance and visual art, including abstract sculpture, a history into which Driscoll’s installation intervenes.

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TDR , Volume 67 , Issue 4 , December 2023 , pp. 42 - 56
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© The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press for Tisch School of the Arts/NYU

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