Art - Performance

John Wood (born 1969) and Paul Harrison (born 1966) fuse their aesthetic research with existential slapstick comedy. Working together since 1993, the British duo use a wide variety of props, including furniture, household utensils and their own bodies, setting up comical interactions with objects...

This book celebrates a collaboration between the National Gallery and The Royal Ballet in London, for which Chris Ofili, Conrad Shawcross and Mark Wallinger worked with some of the world's best known choreographers and composers.Author: Minna Moore EdeISBN-10: 1908970049ISBN-13: 9781908970046Publisher: Art / BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished:...

If you want to sing better and become a successful professional singer, then get the "How to Sing Better" guide. Here's what you get: - Improve your singing voice.- Become the best singer you can be.- How to get a singing career.- How to...

This vintage book contains the second in the series of handbooks on card manipulation by master magician Jean Hugard. Card manipulation is an element of magical illusion concerning the creation of effects through sleight of hand techniques that involve playing cards. It is commonly...

This book addresses the politics of borders in the era of global art by exploring the identification of Chinese artists by location and exhibition. Focusing on performative, body-oriented video works by the post-1989 generation, it tests the premise of genealogical inscription and the ways...

Unlimited action concerns the limits imposed upon art and life, and the means by which artists have exposed, refused, or otherwise reshaped the horizon of aesthetics and of the practice of art, by way of performance art. It examines the 'performance of extremity' as...

Author: Margaret Brewington WrightISBN-10: 1493156446ISBN-13: 9781493156443Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/31/2015Pages: 84Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.62lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.31d

In the short space of 2 years, Amy De Bhr n wrote 6 different one woman shows and performed them around the world. Each play is an eclectic mix of comedic and heartwarming characters, branded with Amy's unique style of theatre. Whether you need...

Moni Mekhala and Ream Eyso retells the sacred drama of the same name, a tale in which rivaling students of a powerful hermit bring life to lightning, thunder, and rain. Weaving together interviews, essays, photographs, and illustrations, the book uses the story to explore...

The authors present relevant and noteworthy research and insight into many therapies, including holistic, exposure, cognitive and behavioral therapies, and medicinal treatments. Each chapter features self-guided activities and journaling exercises, words of wisdom from established performing artists and athletes, and suggestions for music teachers.Author:...

This volume documents the installation at the Cranbrook Art Museum of Lou Reed's Metal Machine Trio, a live ambisonic 3-D sound installation inspired by Reed's controversial 1975 album Metal Machine Music. Reed worked with acoustic specialists to recreate the live experience.Author: Christopher ScoatesISBN-10: 0989186474ISBN-13:...

A new platform for the discussion of sonic art Dirty Ear Report offers a new platform for sonic research, in which leading sound artists and theorists gather to discuss radio art, field recording, noise, real-time work, voice and site-specific sound. This issue includes Zeynep...

"The whole world of modeling is open to you in a way it never has been before," says veteran fashion model Christie Gabriel at the beginning of this book. "But to succeed, you need knowledge it takes years in the industry to gain." Gabriel...

Even though we spend a third of our lives asleep, the behaviour remains largely a mystery. Sandra Huber's first book, Assembling the Morrow: A Poetics of Sleep, assumes that any attempt to solve this mystery requires new modes of experimentation. What happens when the...

Canada's recent sesquicentennial celebrations were the latest in a long, steady progression of Canadian cultural memory projects. Unbecoming Nationalism investigates the power of commemorative performances in the production of nationalist narratives. Using "unbecoming" as a theoretical framework to unsettle or decolonize nationalist narratives, Helene...

What does it mean to be documented or undocumented? How do these terms work across borders and boundaries, languages and nations? These are the questions fueling the experimental artwork-in-a-box, Documentado/Undocumented, a book art piece that explores the intersection of printmaking, typography, performance, video, sound...

In Mapping Memory, Kaitlin M. Murphy investigates the use of memory as a means of contemporary sociopolitical intervention. Mapping Memory focuses specifically on visual case studies, including documentary film, photography, performance, new media, and physical places of memory, from sites ranging from the Southern...

The 1960s was a time of incredible freedom and exploration in the art world, particularly in New York City, which witnessed the explosion of New Music, Happenings, Fluxus, New Dance, pop art, and minimalist art. Also notable during this period, although often overlooked, is...

This book examines the act of medieval re-creation as performance by focusing on the Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA). It describes the group's activities and investigates its place in popular culture, looking at the SCA not so much as a historical society but as...

Western fans today may not recognize the name Ernest Haycox (1899-1950), but they know his work. John Ford turned one of his stories into the iconic film Stagecoach, and the whole Western literary genre still follows conventions that Haycox deftly mastered and reshaped. In...

Current philosophies of art remain sadly dominated by visions of its end and lamentations of decline. Defining the very notions of art and the aesthetic as special products of Western modernity, they suggest that postmodern challenges to traditional high culture pose a devastating danger...

Immerse yourself in the raw energy and enthusiasm of New York City subway buskers in this shining photo showcase. From makeshift stages in Times Square where MTA music banners are hung to subway station platforms and cars throughout the city, these performers collectively express...

Definitive monograph on America's most challenging and influential artistLos-Angeles-based artist Paul McCarthy (b.1945) creates Disneyesque installations, sculptures of animal/vegetable/human hybrids and slapstick performances in a purge of a national subconscious. The psycho-sexual desires and anxieties induced by the media and the built environment of...

How does the production of performance engage with the fundamental issues of our advanced neo-capitalist age? André Lepecki surveys a decade of experimental choreography to uncover the dual meaning of 'performance' in the twenty-first century: not just an aesthetic category, but a mode of...

Performing arts centers (PACs) are an integral part of the cultural and creative industries, significantly influencing the cultural, social, and economic vitality of communities around the world. Virtually all PACs are community-based and serve the public interest, whether structured as a public, nonprofit, for-profit,...

Looking for fresh, original scenes for your fast-paced acting or directing class? Tired of the same old material everyone recognizes? Want the flexibility to play any character in any scene? Book of Sides: Original, Short Scenes for Actors and Directors offers scenes that are...

An apt description of this book appears on the back cover of the book. This descrition was written by Professor Mari -Heleen Coetzee (DTech) and we quote: "Arthur Lessac's passing in 2011 has not only left the Lessac community grieving for a remarkable man,...

In August 1960, Anna Halprin taught an experimental workshop attended by Simone Forti and Yvonne Rainer (along with Trisha Brown and other soon-to-be important artists) on her dance deck on the slopes of Mount Tamalpais, north of San Francisco. Within two years, Forti's conceptually...

Dance's extraordinary range extends from classical ballet and baroque court spectacles to avant-garde modern dance, tap, and ethnic dancing. This comprehensive history covers the entire spectrum, vividly describing the great performers and performances of the past as well as exploring in detail the contemporary...

Embodied Reckonings examines the political and cultural aspects of contemporary performances that have grappled with the history of the "comfort women," the Japanese military's euphemism for the sexual enslavement of girls and young women--mostly Korean--in the years before and during World War II. Long...

Moving Sites explores site-specific dance practice through a combination of analytical essays and practitioner accounts of their working processes. In offering this joint effort of theory and practice, it aims to provide dance academics, students and practitioners with a series of discussions that shed...

Unmarked is a controversial analysis of the fraught relation between political and representational visibility in contemporary culture. Written from and for the Left, Unmarked rethinks the claims of visibility politics through a feminist psychoanalytic examination of specific performance texts - including photography, painting, film,...

How visual art has been enriched by dance, and dance has been shaped by art, in unprecedented and exciting ways for the past fifty years.Move. Choreographing You explores the interaction between visual art and dance since the 1960s. This beautifully illustrated book, published in...

Becoming Audible explores the phenomenon of human and animal acoustic entanglements in art and performance practices. Focusing on the work of artists who get into the spaces between species, Austin McQuinn discovers that sounding animality secures a vital connection to the creatural.To frame his...

A whimsically illustrated book containing performative poems to be read aloudA tanrenga poem is a conversation between a three-line haikulike poem and a two-line poem written by another writer in response. British artist-curator Gavin Wade (born 1971) and poet-musician Paul Conneally (born 1959) offer...

Rochelle Zide-Booth joined the fabled Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo on her 16th birthday and quickly rose to the rank of Soloist. A New York season with Jerome Robbins' Ballets: USA and four years as Principal Dancer of The Joffrey Ballet followed, where she...

This book explores dance and choreography as sites for the articulation of new theoretical and historical paradigms in inter-Asia cultural studies. It covers a range of dance works, artists, genres, and media, from Kathak to K-pop flash mob dance, Cold War diplomacy to avant-garde...

Merging the theoretical framework with the practical elements of staging an ancient Greek play, this indispensable guide offers directors and actors an excellent starting point for mounting their production. Considering the conditions of ancient Greek performance and the conventions of the Greek theatre, the...

An insightful look at work by a pioneer of video and computer art, who explores the relationships between the body, movement, dance, visual, and audiovisual art. Since the early 1970s, the Brazilian artist, dancer, and choreographer Anal?ia Cordeiro has explored the relationships between the...

This book brings the insights of theatre theory to law, legal interpretation and the jurisprudential to reshape law as a practice of response and responsibility.Confronting a Baconian antitheatrical legality embedded in its jurisprudences and interpretative practices, Marett Leiboff turns to theatre theory and practice...

This volume is a study of the connected ideas of "queer" and "gender performance" or "performativity" over the past several decades, providing an ambitious history and crucial examination of these concepts while questioning their very bases.Addressing cultural forms from 1960s-70s sociology, performance art, and...

Just open the box and start some art! Let nothing get in your way... Making art doesn't have to be about technically brilliant painting, sculpting and drawing, or complicated equipment. This is a card deck and booklet of 40 super-simple art activities, each inspired...

Analyzes the self-organizing dramaturgies of dance works that generate performance systematically. Provides effective resources for those who wish to study or realize the potential of performance generating systems in dance within the fields of choreography and dance dramaturgy, dance education, community dance, or dance...

A selection of Burden's self-published magazines brought back to print, collected together in a magnum opus of artist's booksFrom his action-based performances of the 1970s to the technical feats of his later monumental sculptures, American visual artist Chris Burden (1946-2015) consistently challenged material, physical...

Performance artist Linda Montano, curious about the influence childhood experience has on adult work, invited other performance artists to consider how early events associated with sex, food, money/fame, or death/ritual resurfaced in their later work. The result is an original and compelling talking performance...

How artists in the US starting in the 1960s came to use guerrilla tactics in performance and conceptual art, maneuvering policing, racism, and surveillance. As US news covered anticolonialist resistance abroad and urban rebellions at home, and as politicians mobilized the perceived threat of...

British kinetic artist Stephen Cripps (1952-82) built machines and interactive installations and staged radical pyrotechnical performances. Published for an exhibition at Museum Tinguely, Performing Machines surveys his work.Author: Stephen CrippsISBN-10: 3903131911ISBN-13: 9783903131910Publisher: Verlag Fur Moderne KunstLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/25/2017Pages: 192Format: PaperbackWeight: 2.00lbsSize: 11.80h x 8.90w...

What should an actor be thinking onstage? This overlooked, important question is the crux of this new book that combines psychological theory, numerous practical exercises, and a thorough and wide-reaching examination of inner monologue in various forms including film, musical theatre, and comedy.Author: R....

THROUGH THE RUINS: TALKS ON HUMAN RIGHTS AN THE ARTS 1 is the inaugural volume in a series of publications dedicated to exploring creative tools of resistance. THROUGH THE RUINS is based on public talks presented at the OSUN Center for Human Rights and...

Surveying the written work of a pioneering Austrian avant-garde artistAustrian avant-garde artist Valie Export (born 1940) is regarded internationally as one of the most important pioneers of conceptual media art, performance and experimental film. This volume showcases her published and unpublished texts, interviews and...