Tracés (Sep 2016)
Le travail de Charles Goodwin à l’épreuve de la performance
Abstract
This article considers the history of interactionism through the lens of contemporary art, and in particular, performance as it emerged in the 50s and 60s in the United States. In the specific context of this paper, I analyze Charles Goodwin’s work through the work of some contemporary artists (Marcel Duchamp, John Cage, Yoko Ono) whose theoretical issues echoes those raised in Goodwin’s work. The objective of this paper is to foster a closer dialogue between contemporary art and interactionism by highlighting five relevant, common key points : a collective approach to speakership, a multisemiotic vision of talk, a procedural perspective on action, a holistic view of multimodality and a focus on creativity in the accomplishment of social practices. The dialogue between the two fields requires an operation of cultural translation and sheds new light on the phenomena under study, which should lead rethinking and historicizing some of our most important analytical categories.
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