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Minioperas as Genre of Parody Performance …………………………............ 80
Leonid A. Menshikov (Sanct-Peterburg) — PhD in Philosophy Sciences,Associate Professor, Prorector of Education at the Vaganova Ballet Academy.
E-mail: lmensch@mail.ru
In this article the genre and the style features of an «minioper» a specific form offluxus art practice are investigated. It is created by the American artist and the musician
Benjamin Patterson on the crossing of aesthetic regularities of avant-gardist andpostmodernist art. It is the peculiar type of a parody performance based ontransformation of the plots and music of the popular operas. The descriptions andmaterials relating to statement of minioperas by the author are used for the definition of
its place in the genre system of the fluxus art. The fundamentals of the used methodology
are made by the morphological analysis which task was a systematization of the main
forms the action art.
The main features of the miniopera genre as parody performance are established as aresult. These features are interpreted on the materials of three minioperas by Patterson
based on parodying of Puccini’s, Wagner’s and Bizet’s operas. The means of expression
system used during creation of these works is revealed. The postmodernist and avantgardist principles of using for these means of expression are defined. The role of aperformativity, parody, an intermediality in the means of expression system of minioperas
is found. The article comes to the end with conclusions about the place of a genre in thesystem of art forms of fluxus art.
Keywords: Performance, parody, opera, miniopera, action art, postmodernity, fluxus,
contemporary art, intermedia, avant-garde.
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