Field and culture of performance in Africa : the comedy video performance

Abstract

This thesis deals with the aesthetic issues that guide the process of performing a performative action. It will seek to analyze and compare means of resolution and cohabitation of the elements of visual arts discourse in relation to those of the dramatic arts and music. This concern, at the research center, must lead us to understand the aim of art as an indissociable element of individual and collective practices in African society. It is to stigmatize this reflection that our thesis is titled “Field and culture of performance in Africa: the comedy video performance”. To determine the field of performance in Africa and to respond to its culture is to seek to understand this art, this science in society, which is based on an analysis of the African's daily life and habits. Responding to the concerns of such a subject is to further address the sources of knowledge, conservation and enrichment of the language of contemporary African performative art. This aim practically nourishes the markers of a socio-cultural history that delivers the forms of knowledge of video performance comedy through the force of instinctive and poetic instincts. As we understand it, the systemic analysis of performative aesthetic issues in the re-configuration of the body is a support for creativity. So how could this analysis of creativity through performance in video comedy performance participate in the enrichment of contemporary artistic language?