This essay elaborates a concept of performance. It basically does so by using the terminological and referential imaginary of Deleuze's courses and writings on painting. In a couple of instances, it also uses terminologies from his books and courses on cinema. The difficulty, the knot of this concept, and its exposition, resides in the fact that pictorial performance only occurs when its enunciation destabilizes the customary and structural frames of recognition in the midst of which it is exercised, and which it makes use of for its own enactment. Performance in painting is erected in each case, then, as an enunciation that does not allow itself to be stabilized, that does not allow itself to die in the statements which it rigorously uses to write itself out. The exposition of this concept will fail, also, insofar as the statements it uses to display it, end up enclosing it, determining it narratively.
Thayer, W. (2021). Deleuze. Abstract choreographies. For a minor vocabulary. Resonancias. Revista De Filosofía, (10), 1–15. https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-790X.2021.60945
