Art - Performance

Over one hundred pages of more illusion ideas and building tips written by Paul Osborne. Enjoy a foreword by Andre' Kole and 21 illusion ideas from David Ginn, Stan Allen, Rand Woodbury, Tom Palmer, and others. Share building secrets from Bill Smith, Scott Davis...

No One Thing is the Root of All AnythingPhases and Performance of the Imminent$15.00 - $20.00by Chelsea CoonChelsea Coon's first publication No One Thing is the Root of All Anything: Phases and Performance of the Imminent describes the artist's methodological approaches in the spatial...

Endless Shout asks how, why and where performance and improvisation can take place inside a museum. The book documents a six-month series of experimental performances organized by the Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, where five participants--Ra l de Nieves, Danielle Goldman, George...

Celebrating ten years since the founding of the historic Performa biennial in 2005, Performa 15 once again explored the most exciting innovations in contemporary visual arts, dance, film, radio, sound and architecture. This edition brought together a total of more than 30 artists from...

The fifth volume in the acclaimed series by performance art historian RoseLee Goldberg, Performa 13 features projects from more than 120 of the leading artists working in performance today, in collaboration with more than 100 curators and arts institutions--works that broke down the boundaries...

Ernesto Pujol here combines elements from an art book, field journal and walkers' manifesto. It is a text for performative artists, art students, and all who walk as cultural activism. Walking Art Practice is a collection of intimate reflections by the author, which bring...

The Butoh - a dedication to Hijikata Tatsumi is a dense and rich summary of Rhizome Lee's dedicated research into the world of the Japanese master of butoh. This precious edition includes some unpublished translations of Hijikata's butoh-fu. Rhizome Lee invites us into an...

Interpreting the meaning of hospitality in an unwelcoming political moment Amid xenophobic challenges to America's core value of welcoming the tired and the poor, Irina Aristarkhova calls for new forms of hospitality in her engagement with the works of eight international artists. In this...

Through ephemera, plates and text, this book tells the story of one of Mexico's leading political artistsThis publication reproduces images of the posters, mail art, letters and artists' books that Polish-born artist Marcos Kurtycz (1934-96) made in defiance of the commodification of art Mexico,...

The work of Belgian-Moroccan choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui (born 1976) and British-Bengali choreographer Akram Khan (born 1974), two of today's most prolific choreographers, has in many ways defined the first decade of 21st- century dance. Both choreographers have extensively discussed identity as a significant...

The body painting, photography and performance work of German artists (born 1939) Vera Lendorff (also known as the famed 1970s fashion model Veruschka) and Holger Truelzsch (of Popol Vuh) are documented in this volume featuring texts that retrace the evolution of gender identity in...

This catalog illuminates two vital parts of Brooklyn-based performance artist Martha Wilson's (born 1947) artistic career, presenting a selection of her politically subversive works alongside the story of Franklin Furnace Archive, Inc, the alternative art space that she founded in 1976.Author: Christiane KrejsISBN-10: 3903228915ISBN-13:...

A Moment in Time is the first all-encompassing publication on the multifaceted work of Swiss artist Victorine M ller (born 1961). M ller first gained international recognition for placing individuals inside large-scale, inflated plastic forms in the shape of animals, humans, aliens and amorphous...

"I see my autobiography as an arbitrary segment of so many pages of time, of things that I have paid attention to at this point in my life," wrote James Lee Byars (1932-1997) in 1969. He was then 37, about half the average male...

This stunning and comprehensive book presents acclaimed artist William Forsythe, whose work is at the intersection of performance, sculpture, and installation. Since the 1990s, parallel to his stage productions, Forsythe has developed a body of work he calls "Choreographic Objects". These experimental, interactive works...

This publication addresses performative artistic strategies as a lived practice of resistance in Latin American countries such as Argentina, Brazil and Chile, from the 1960s on. At its core are those artists who have contested repressive political systems, often jeopardizing their own lives: for...

Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring was premiered in 1913 by Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes under the choreography of Vaslav Nijinsky, in the Th tre des Champs lys es in Paris. To this day it is considered the biggest theater scandal of the twentieth...

Hauser & Wirth opened its first US gallery with a presentation of Allan Kaprow's (1927-2006) seminal Environment Yard: a mountain of black rubber auto tires and tarpaper-wrapped forms through which visitors jumped and crawled, first made by the artist in 1961 and reinterpreted in...

Jerk is a collaborative artist's book and audio recording by director Gisele Vienne, author Dennis Cooper, musician Peter Rehberg and performer Jonathan Capdevielle, which translates a previous collaborative theater work into a violent multimedia disquisition on puppetry, serial killing and homoeroticism. The play and...

In this practical, easy to use book, Rae A. Stonehouse a.k.a. Mr. Emcee puts the "Master" in Master of Ceremonies. He shares tips & techniques he has learned over the years in becoming a dynamic Master of Ceremonies.By reading this book you will learn:...

In The Cry of the Senses, Ren Ellis Neyra examines the imaginative possibility for sound and poetics to foster new modes of sensorial solidarity in the Caribbean Americas. Weaving together the black radical tradition with Caribbean and Latinx performance, cinema, music, and literature, Ellis...

In The Cry of the Senses, Ren Ellis Neyra examines the imaginative possibility for sound and poetics to foster new modes of sensorial solidarity in the Caribbean Americas. Weaving together the black radical tradition with Caribbean and Latinx performance, cinema, music, and literature, Ellis...

Mercedes is a Perth based stripper - turned soul searcher, gypsy wanderer, humanitarian and seeker of the truth. Her life has led her on many a crazy adventure - from inner city club scenes, the glamour of life as a model in Dubai, the...

Explore William Kentridge's remarkable performance piece, The Head & The Load, and discover how music, dance, writing, and fine art are combined to tell the haunting story of Africans during WWI. For over thirty years, William Kentridge has been combining fine arts, performance, theatre,...

What does artistic resistance look like in the twenty-first century, when disruption and dissent have been co-opted and commodified in ways that reinforce dominant systems? In The Play in the System Anna Watkins Fisher locates the possibility for resistance in artists who embrace parasitism-tactics...

A curated collection of papers, provocations, and actions from the 'Walking's New Movements' conference held at the University of Plymouth in November 2019. The experience and variety of walking practices have never been so broad, relevant, or unpredictable. Walking Bodies charts some of their...

A detailed account of Ant Farm's 1975 Media Burn performance, a legendary act of consumerist critiqueThis book examines the complex set of cultural references and art-making strategies informing Ant Farm's seminal 1975 performance Media Burn in which a customized Cadillac, dubbed the Phantom Dream...

Figs in Wigs are back and this time they've got their period (dresses). After five years of creating avant-garde, boundary pushing, genre-bending contemporary performance, Figs in Wigs have decided the only way to go is backwards...Author: Figs In WigsISBN-10: 1913630064ISBN-13: 9781913630065Publisher: Salamander Street Ltd.Language:...

How might performance serve as a means for facing ubiquitous trauma and pain, in humans and ecologies? While reflecting on her multidisciplinary work Systems of Pain/Networks of Resilience, artist Meghan Moe Beitiks considers bodies of knowledge in Trauma Theory, Intersectional Feminist Philosophy, Ecology, Disability...

The twenty-first century is already riddled with protests demanding social justice, and in every instance, young people are leading the charge. But in addition to protesters who take to the streets with handmade placards are young adults who engage in less obvious change-making tactics....

Simultaneously speculative and inspired by everyday experiences, this volume develops an aesthetics of metabolism that offers a new perspective on the human-environment relation, one that is processual, relational, and not dependent on conscious thought. In art installations, design prototypes, and researchcreation projects that utilize...

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Sound Art explores and delineates what Sound Art is in the 21st century. Sound artworks today embody the contemporary and transcultural trends towards the post-apocalyptic, a wide sensorial spectrum of sonic imaginaries as well as the decolonization and deinstitutionalization around...

- A beautifully illustrated catalog documenting an exhibition that explores Alexander Calder's impact on contemporary art- The show at the Kunsthal Rotterdam runs from November 21, 2021 - May 29 2022- Includes works by Calder, Olafur Eliasson, Zilvinas Kempinas, Simone Leigh, Ernesto Neto, Carston...

"The Greek Music Drama" marks an intriguing moment in the development of Nietzsche's thought. Delivered in 1870 at the Basel Museum, it was the first public enunciation of the great themes that would echo throughout Nietzsche's philosophy: the importance of aesthetic experience for culture,...

Since he first arrived on the New York art/theatre/performance scene in 1970, Lee Breuer has been at the forefront of the American theatrical avant-garde, creating challenging works both independently and with Mabou Mines, the company he co-founded with JoAnne Akalaitis, Philip Glass, Ruth Maleczech,...

This is a uniquely specific volume that lists both the reasons and solutions for many of the technique difficulties that plague dancers in their quest for self-improvement. It will take you "beyond the classroom" to find out how to better your flexibility, turn-out, pirouettes,...

In Mindful Movement, exercise physiologist, somatic therapist and advocate Martha Eddy uses original interviews, case studies and practice-led research to define the origins of a new holistic field - somatic movement education and therapy - and its impact on fitness, ecology, politics and performance.Author:...

An entertaining handbook of magic tricks you can perform without fancy, costly equipment.Author: John FisherISBN-10: 159077468XISBN-13: 9781590774687Publisher: M. Evans and CompanyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/20/2014Pages: 158Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.60lbsSize: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.40d

There is a growing interest in the notion and practice of dramaturgy (the theory and practice of dramatic composition), which is often discussed either as the work of the dramaturg, or as the compositional or sense-making aspects of a performance. Drawing on such views,...

French sound artist and instrument builder Tarek Atoui (born 1980) creates sound-generating objects for improvisation. This volume documents works presented and performed at Tate Modern in 2016.Author: Tarek Atoui, Andre VidaISBN-10: 8867492594ISBN-13: 9788867492596Publisher: Mousse PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/22/2017Pages: 80Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.80lbsSize: 11.60h x 8.30w x...

During 1976 and 1977 Jordi Valls recorded live on nine audio cassettes some of the early punk gigs in London. These tapes, featuring The Sex Pistols, The Clash, The Damned, Subway Sect, Billy Idol & Generation X, The Slits and Buzzcocks, capture the true...

In this volume, theorist and sound artist Micah Silver addresses the impact of sound on human behavior and social space. Silver's research ranges from Yves Klein's Air Architecture to La Monte Young's Dream House, and culminates in a discussion of historically significant sound systems,...

The early experimental work of one of the founders of Russian conceptualismRussian poet, author, artist and art theorist Andrei Monastyrski (born 1949) is, along with Ilya Kabakov, one of the founders of conceptualism in Russia, and a protagonist of Collective Actions, a group of...

Four Dutch collaborators on performance as a way of producing versions of the selfApproaching performance as a method of producing different versions of the self, in Another Version four Dutch collaborators--performance artist, author and critic, dramaturge and sociopolitical designer--explore technologies and processes of so-called...

Author: Jn Jacob RohwerISBN-10: 3422981551ISBN-13: 9783422981553Publisher: Deutscher KunstverlagLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/21/2020Pages: 168Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.25lbsSize: 8.90h x 6.60w x 0.80d

If you want to learn how to teach drama to kids, then get "How to Teach Drama To Kids" written by a person with real life experience teaching drama to children. This guide, "How to Teach Drama to Kids" will take someone unsure of...

What does artistic resistance look like in the twenty-first century, when disruption and dissent have been co-opted and commodified in ways that reinforce dominant systems? In The Play in the System Anna Watkins Fisher locates the possibility for resistance in artists who embrace parasitism-tactics...

A sightseeing trip in southern Africa in 2007 opened the author's eyes to an uncharted music scene in an unexpected place: rock and metal, alive and raging in the forgotten continent. Sparked by his own love of heavy music and an insatiable wanderlust, Edward...

Winner of the 2019 Lilla A. Heston Award Co-winner of the 2018 Ethnography Division's Best Book from the NCA In recent decades, poetry slams and the spoken word artists who compete in them have sparked a resurgent fascination with the world of poetry. However,...

A man selling kebabs in the shadow of a papier mâché tree; a woman standing with a small stage built around her breasts while people wait their turn to touch them; another woman projecting snapshots of Belgrade with the official buildings painted out: what...