Arte viva começar a existir : da emergência da performance arte como verdadeira negação, de fundo utópico, de sua reproductibilidade técnica

The most recent presentation and preservation practices in a museological context - João Vieira - Corpo de Letras, Museu Serralves, Oporto, 2002; Art, Lies and Videotape: Exposing Performance, Tate Liverpool, 2003-2004; After the Act, Museum Moderner Kunst Stifung Ludwig, Vienna, 2005; Seven Easy Pieces, Guggenheim Museum, New York, 2005; The Artist is Present, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, 2010 – in what concerns the performance art, resort to the reconstitution (repetition) of performance actions, which are by definition unique events, and to methods which appeal to the theatricalization (staging) of the performance art space, subverting the criative process of this body and action art. The replication (reperformance) strategies of this ephemeral art produce an effective response to the technical difficulties of the performance art musealization. However, they make more evident a number of questions which emerge from history of art, philosophy of art and from the specificity of performance art language itsel