Art - Performance

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...

This volume analyzes innovative forms of media and music (art installations, television commercials, photography, films, songs, telenovelas) to examine the performance of migration in contemporary culture. Though migration studies and media studies are ostensibly different fields, this transnational collection of essays addresses how their...

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...

Letters from Linda M. Montano is an anthology of writings by one of the seminal performance artists of the last century. It provides an autobiographical and historical record of Montano's artistic practice over the last thirty years, collecting together stories, fairytales, letters, interviews, manifestos...

Eva Volitzer's The Art of Acting: Pathways to Mastery is the product of her extensive and successful experience as a professional actress, as well as her long-standing and fruitful career as a teacher of acting.The book is structured into three main sections: І. Introduction...

Dinomania an iguanodon degrades and disappears - except one tooth. Where does it fit in the story of an earth created 6,000 years ago? Trap Street charts 50 years of changing attitudes to ownership and space in London, to ask what home means in...

ARTHEMIST Lighthouse 48 documents a year of performance actions by Norwegian artist Bj rn Ven .Across 54 filmed gestures, 54 still images, and experimental poetry, the book becomes a ritual of transformation-an invitation to perceive beyond the surface of art and language.Shot and written...

The vinyl record as an artistic medium: a contemporary sequel to the 1989 definitive guide on sound works and records by artistsFollowing Ursula Block's groundbreaking 1989 exhibition "Broken Music: Artists' Recordworks" and the accompanying publication, which was reproduced in facsimile by Pioneer Works in...

When little Conrad Van der Bosch claims he has an invisible tiger called Sigmund hiding on his wardrobe, his child-psychologist father sees the 'lie' as a deliberate act of juvenile defiance. Doctor Van der Bosch is concerned that the boy is mentally maladjusted and...

There's been a near fatal stabbing in a local park and a young teenager is in a critical condition.Seventeen year old Tony has been accused of what has been called a racially motivated crime and goes on the run. But he has chosen to...

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Working Title is about all the supposedly mundane things involved in creative work that you're not supposed to talk about:...

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Working Title is about all the supposedly mundane things involved in creative work that you're not supposed to talk about:...

Art Beyond the Edge is not just a title: it's a designation, a call to action, and a means to achieve enduring impact. Reflecting over a quarter century of collaborative artistic production, research, and activism across five continents, this book is a field-breaking and...

Art Beyond the Edge is not just a title: it's a designation, a call to action, and a means to achieve enduring impact. Reflecting over a quarter century of collaborative artistic production, research, and activism across five continents, this book is a field-breaking and...

It takes couraghe to turn a new leaf, a passion for self-discovery, and a sense of fun. The New Leaf journals, filled with wisdom and surprise, describe a life lived onits own terms. The author echoes our own passions, fears, and hopes in ways...

Written by multi-hyphenate and One Voice Award-nominated voice-over actor Roberto V. Jolliffe III, this comprehensive "how-to" creates a road map for aspiring voice actors of any age to get started on their dream - from acquiring the right equipment to auditioning for jobs and...

It takes couraghe to turn a new leaf, a passion for self-discovery, and a sense of fun. The New Leaf journals, filled with wisdom and surprise, describe a life lived onits own terms. The author echoes our own passions, fears, and hopes in ways...

With a childhood surrounded by alcoholism and petty cruelties, an adolescence of rebellion and punkish anarchy and an adulthood peppered with heroin addiction, voluntary crucifixion, failed suicide and a penchant for sex with prostitutes, Sebastian Horsley's life was always destined to become a work...

Aleph-naught is a performative text that creatively harnesses Dinesh's findings from three of her previous works: Memos from a Theatre Lab: Exploring What Immersive Theatre "Does", Memos from a Theatre Lab: Spaces, Relationships, & Immersive Theatre, and Memos from a Theatre Lab: Immersive Theatre...

Comfort and Joy? Advent season is desperate for true peace and spiritual light. These carols are singable Psalms offering real comfort and joy. While all of us understand the feeling of waiting on God, these musical carols are grounded in true hope and human...

"I was never part of any gang that killed a man"Three Irishmen. Digging. Telling tales to put down the day. But as they dig down, long buried secrets begin to emerge and the story they tell is as dark as the earth itself. It's...

Growing frustrated at the destruction of his rural idyll, a farmer picks up a pamphlet that encourages him on a dangerous path.... He has a great idea to secure the future of the native animals on his land - to kill all of the...

A London churchyard becomes a sanctuary for the gardener Kabir. When a photograph of an African church appears in this little Eden, a complex drama of morality and conscience unfolds.Sanctuary was part of the National Theatre's 'Transformations' season in 2002.Author: Tanika GuptaISBN-10: 1840023023ISBN-13: 9781840023022Publisher:...

In his emotionally raw yet darkly hilarious Tentative Armor, Michael Harren combines piano, synthesizers, a laptop and live string players with his unique storytelling, resulting in a deeply moving, highly entertaining performance. In its book form, Tentative Armor captures Harren's resonant, powerful, very personal...

This book unfolds the theory of enduramorphosis, an emergent strangeness that arises in an endurance performance when the body is pushed to its limit and reacts. Artist Chelsea Coon works across performance and lens-based extensions in photography, video, livestream, digital arts, and new media....

The definitive book on the theft of Hitler's favorite painting from the Neue Nationalgalerie and its importance to the history of art theft as well as the history of art. On 12 December 1976, German conceptual artist Ulay stole Hitler's favorite painting from the...

Puerto Rico-based American and Cuban-born Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla are known for their playful, socially-involved, sound-based installations, videos and performances. This well-designed volume presents recent works that investigate how power, militarism and war are encoded into sound.Author: Jennifer AlloraISBN-10: 3037640278ISBN-13: 9783037640272Publisher: Jrp RingierLanguage:...

[Economy edition] This is the definitive guide to Counter-Tourism, except that Counter-Tourism has a low opinion of definitive guides. So it's more like an equivocal misguide. It includes dozens of detailed Counter-Tourism 'tactics' plus the thinking behind Counter-Tourism, its academic and philosophical background, and...

Stuart Brisley is a pioneering multi-media and performance artist who developed performance art as a form of social action in the 1960s and 1970s. This book assesses his seminal influence on British art through a focus on his lifelong engagement with the histories and...

The Hangover Hour Spoken Word Salon was a poetry reading held in Worcester, Massachusetts from 2013 to 2017. It was a fun, silly reading that celebrated the writing and style of a by gone age. The host, David Macpherson, embraced the 30s and 40s...

'Every day I've worn a mask. You won't have noticed...But then one day. It began to chip...'Forty years of respectable marriage should have prepared Joyce for respectable widowhood. She, however, has other ideas - and a secret life of champagne, strippers, and chance encounters...

"Not as if I always lived here, mind you...I started off in Govan. Never dreamt in those days I'd end up this side of the river. Real step up in the world that was...I'm grateful for it. Despite everything, I'm grateful for it." Glasgow,...

A collection of new essays on the philosophy of theatre and the philosophy of drama, combining historical perspectives and new directions. Author: Tom SternISBN-10: 178348621XISBN-13: 9781783486212Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield PublishersLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/06/2017Pages: 216Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.35lbsSize: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.80d

This innovative and practical book offers pedagogical tools to show how drama can be used in educational settings to advance a relational, action-oriented, interdisciplinary and creative climate education attuned to the social and emotional effects of the climate emergency. Author: Kathleen GallagherISBN-10: 103261563XISBN-13: 9781032615639Publisher:...

Exploring cultural resistance by creating and archiving Latinx performance art Performance is often seen as ephemeral, a condition that seemingly reduces its activist possibilities. After all, not everyone can take part or bear witness. Beyond the Moment shows how Latinx artists have responded with...

Ballet dancers answer a calling that demands they become what they must become, a calling as clear, simple, and inevitable as the Call of Nature is to canines. In a voice from the EAMOW, with a prodigious supporting cast of professional dancers and devoted...

Ballet dancers answer a calling that demands they become what they must become, a calling as clear, simple, and inevitable as the Call of Nature is to canines. In a voice from the EAMOW, with a prodigious supporting cast of professional dancers and devoted...

The funniest night's entertainment in years. Theatre That Really Works ! This inventive piece of modern theatre really gets down to the nitty gritty in its story of a very ordinary suburban couple caught up in the traps of modern society. The laughs come...

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...

This book contains a fantastic guide to doing magic tricks that can be performed at any time using common and easy-to-come-by materials and props, including coins, matches, paper, knives, cards, and more. "Impromptu Magic with Patter" is perfect for magicians new and old, and...

The Model's Handbook was first written in 1982 in response to a request from Simorgh Modeling and Talent Agency, Phoenix, AZ. At that time, I had worked a little in film, been a successful fashion and commercial photographer, worked as a local casting agent...

Combining theory and historiography, this book presents a new means for considering rhythm in postdramatic performance by examining the creative processes of three major international companies: Mime Omnibus (Montreal, Canada), Dairakudakan (Tokyo, Japan), and SITI Company (New York, US). While rhythm is unanimously acknowledged...

Previously unpublished ephemera, poems and photographs accompany this sharp retrospective volume of Antin's 50 years of conceptual, feminist artFor more than 50 years, Eleanor Antin (born 1935) has been a distinctive voice in postmodernism, traversing conceptual art and feminist movements. Her projects, often photographic...

Doing Nothing is a book about doing nothing in a system where there is always something pressing that ought to be done. Not the productive unstructured time of self-help books, but the aimless and ineffective doing nothing of procrastination, resignation, and melancholia. James Currie...

Doing Nothing is a book about doing nothing in a system where there is always something pressing that ought to be done. Not the productive unstructured time of self-help books, but the aimless and ineffective doing nothing of procrastination, resignation, and melancholia. James Currie...

This book traces an early history of performance art from the former Czechoslovakia, which emerged in the 1960s and 1970s in the context of the Prague Spring and the subsequent policy of Normalization that brought on cultural censorship, prosecution, and state violence against artists....

What does it mean when a singing voice is detached from an originating body through recording? And how does this affect consumers of recorded song? This book examines the practice of lipsynching to pre-recorded song in both professional and vernacular contexts, covering over a...

The Art of Sensorial Language examines audience interaction, multisensory experiences that can be understood internationally and cross-culturally.Author: Barbara Pia JeničISBN-10: 1032999152ISBN-13: 9781032999159Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/31/2025Pages: 202Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.05lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.50d

Establishing a 'missed link' between the work of Piero Manzoni and Hélio Oiticica and their respective cultural contexts, this book sheds new light on overlooked aspects of these two artists' practices, particularly focusing on the shift from painting to performance in the long 1960s.Lara...

This book asks that we consider the practices that facilitate audience participation on equal terms with other elements of the theatre maker's art; it offers a theoretical basis for this new approach, illustrated by examples from diverse participatory performances.Author: G. WhiteISBN-10: 1137010738ISBN-13: 9781137010735Publisher: Palgrave...