This third one is the most painful to observe, but there's an element of conscious performance about it: she's suffering, but she's playing it for all it's worth.
Sarah is so moved by Nick's socially conscious performance art that it doesn't occur to her how immensely self-serving his act is.
A broader distinction between the (automatic) initiation and the (conscious) performance of behaviour, however, is concordant with the present definition.
Gerlich is the only character with judgment and moral courage, and Mr. Modine's twitchy, self-conscious performance undermines his message.
It was a film that exasperatingly failed to deliver on its promise, featuring a somewhat self-conscious performance from Marling.
It's a more self-conscious performance, with that slooooower British voice (actually, a prototype for Maggie), the black cloak and the frizzier-than-usual hair.
Robert Greene is the crucial contemporary documentarian, for his recognition of the aspect of self-conscious performance that's implied by the very presence of a camera.
The spell cast by Beckett is as fragile as glass, and Mr. Heller's self-conscious performance sometimes sends cracks running along its surfaces.
For the Gounod aria at Friday's early show, she unfurled her moderately impressive operatic technique and gave her most appealing (and least self-conscious) performance.
After the Freedom Ride finally left Montgomery, I wrote in my Time file, "The brutal, chaotic bumbling of Alabama gave way to the well-oiled, kid-glove, image-conscious performance possible only in a monolithic police state".
Admittedly her 2009 tribute to Michael Jackson lacked the self-conscious performance art nature of her most recent work, but nevertheless it was still long and rambling and more about her than Jackson.
