11Performing the real
Audiovisual documentary performances and the senses
Audiovisual documentary performances can be described as a performative practice that combines elements of documentary cinema with live audiovisual performance. With sound and images performed live and in real time, these performances create a new sensory approach to documentary and challenge the viewing and listening habits shaped by traditional, more linear or narrative documentary structures.
In terms of theoretical discourse, the realms of audiovisual performance and documentary cinema have never substantially overlapped. Nevertheless, it is true for them, what Scott MacDonald claims for the neighbouring but not identical complex of what he calls ...
