Performance in the Expanded Field

A Performative Lecture is about the relationship between academia and society as drama whilst acting out a kidnapping of ‘the lecturer’, complete with police officers in uniforms from the T.V. show The Bill. This ‘staged kidnapping’ occurs during a screened episode of Abel Ferrara’s ‘video nasty’ horror movie, ‘The Driller Killer’, (1974): Abel’s response to technological performance, of the newly mass-produced battery power portapak.