Perform/Present

This is the second of two Kunstlicht issues to investigate artists’ personae. Entitled Perform Present — The Artist’s Persona, it focuses on the performance of personae both inside and outside the frame of artistic practice. Why would an artist choose to depict herself in a self-portrait? What changes if that self-depiction makes use of the body of the artist through a performance? And how is this different from a self-presentation that takes place outside the confines of the artwork?