Art - Performance

In extensive interviews with collaborators and artists, Beecroft discusses the motivations behind (and audience reactions to) her provocative performancesPerformance artist Vanessa Beecroft (born 1969) is best known for her large-scale, regimentally choreographed performances and tableaux vivants involving naked or nearly naked women. In the...

"I don't think we'll get to Mars... not really...not normal people. Scientists might... it'll end up a scientific outpost like Antarctica... but it won't be for people like you and me."Maggie has found a warm patch of ground on Horsell Common. She believes something...

This book is an invitation to awaken the 3Rs: Reveling in your Body, Revealing your Radiant Essence, and Receiving what you Desire. The 3Rs can be the foundation - and the fruit - of your burlesque solo creation and performance journey!This book is for...

"This book examines necropolitics and performance art, with a particular focus on the black body and the African diaspora. In the book, Myron Beasley situates artists as cultural workers and theorists who illuminate the political linkages between their own and others' specific locales. The...

An intimate portrait of the performance artists' evolving relationship over the course of five decades, replete with rare behind-the-scenes photographs and court documentsThe body-related actions by the German and Serbian artistic duo and lovers Ulay/Abramovi? (1943-2000; born 1946) in the 1970s are highlights in...

""Pizarro"" is a historical play written by Richard Brinsley Sheridan. It tells the story of the Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro and his conquest of Peru in the 16th century. The play is set in Lima, the capital of Peru, and revolves around the conflict...

The Routledge Reader in Politics and Performance brings together for the first time a comprehensive collection of extracts from key writings on politics, ideology, and performance.Author: Jane De GayISBN-10: 0415174724ISBN-13: 9780415174725Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/09/2000Pages: 352Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.26lbsSize: 9.51h x 6.38w x 0.95d

This book draws upon the work of video artists and activists in France between the 1970s and the early 2020s and focuses on significant practices with technology.Author: Anaïs NonyISBN-10: 104118400XISBN-13: 9781041184003Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/01/2025Pages: 192Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.61lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.41d

Too old to move with the times; too young to let go of their dreams Village school teacher Platonov is a man who is loved by women. Despite his best intentions he is drawn into a series of extra-marital affairs that all hold the...

A Practice of Pleasure is an intimate and panoramic entrée into the life and work of Joanna Frueh (1948-2020), an art historian and performance practitioner for whom life and art were inseparable. Written during a key transitional moment in her life and work (2005-2012),...

Performance Art in the Second Public Sphere is the first interdisciplinary analysis of performance art in East, Central and Southeast Europe under socialist rule. By investigating the specifics of event-based art forms in these regions, each chapter explores the particular, critical roles that this...

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...

A missed phone call. A misheard word. An indiscernible noise. All these can make the difference between life and death. Failures to listen are frequently at the root of the marginalization and exclusion of certain forms of life. Audibility decides livability. Shattering Biopolitics elaborates...

'A series of accidents has brought you this book.You may think of it not as a book, but as a library, an elevator, an amateur performance in a nearby theatre.Open it to the table of contents. Turn to the page that sounds the most...

In fresh readings of Theodor W. Adorno, Giorgio Agamben, Hannah Arendt, Judith Butler, Barbara Cassin, Michel Foucault, Werner Hamacher, Martin Heidegger, and many more, Gotman rearticulates the foundations of broadly western philosophical thinking to carve out a shadowy space of recalcitrant thought 'in dark...

This book provides a vital new history of feminist performance through an ecological lens. It argues that from the 1960s to the present, artists have used performance to challenge the linked oppression of women and nature. Proposing 'composting' as a new method for writing...

Reclaim your creative identity. Show up like you mean it. You didn't lose your artistry - you've just been trying to stay afloat in a world that's noisy, saturated, and constantly pulling you off course. Whether you're a dancer, actor, writer, musician, singer, visual...

Moving, powerful, ethereal; Mind Walkingis a celebration of the life of one extraordinary man, the enduring love story of a mature couple and their family.Bobby has led a remarkable life. Migrating from India as a young man he found love in the UK with...

Performing Truth answers the most pressing questions facing any theatre-makers who are wrestling with how to present historical, political or socioeconomic information in an engaging, entertaining, and galvanizing way. How to make data compelling and documents mobilizing? How to keep an audience interested in...

As the nature of contemporary performance continues to expand into new forms, genres and media, it requires an increasingly diverse vocabulary. Reading Contemporary Performance provides students, critics and creators with a rich understanding of the key terms and ideas that are central to any...

What does it mean to approach disability-focused cultural production and consumption as generative sites of meaning-making? Disability Arts and Culture: Methods and Approaches seeks the answer to this question and more in an exploration of disability studies within the arts and beyond.Author: Petra KuppersISBN-10:...

Situated at the crossroads of performance practice, museology, and cultural studies, live arts curation has grown in recent years to become a vibrant interdisciplinary project and a genuine global phenomenon. Curating Live Arts brings together bold and innovative essays from an international group of...

Planet Cosplay is authored by widely published scholars in this field, examining the central aspects of cosplay ranging from sources and sites to performance and play, from sex and gender to production and consumption. Author: Paul Mountfort,Anne Peirson-Smith,Adam GeczyISBN-10: 1783209569ISBN-13: 9781783209569Publisher: Intellect (UK)Language: EnglishPublished:...

This study of Bob Dylan's art employs a performance studies lens, exploring the distinctive ways he brings words and music to life on recordings, onstage, and onscreen. Chapters focus on the relationship of Dylan's recorded performances to the historical bardic role, to the American...

Using a performance studies lens, this book is a study of performance in the post-9/11 context of the so-called war on terror. It analyzes conventional theatre, political protest, performance art and other sites of performance to unpack the ways in which meaning has been...

The Governess is a play written by Richard Brinsley Sheridan in 1801. The story revolves around the character of Miss Leontine, a governess who is hired by Lord and Lady Ruby to educate their daughter, Lady Charlotte. Miss Leontine is a strong-willed and independent...

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...

In (toward) a phenomenology of acting, Phillip Zarrilli considers acting as a 'question' to be explored in the studio and then reflected upon.This book is a vital response to Jerzy Grotowski's essential question: "How does the actor 'touch that which is untouchable?'" Phenomenology invites...

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...

'Winner of the 2023 Selma Jeanne Cohen Prize in Dance Aesthetics, The American Society for Aesthetics.'This book traces the history of engagements between dance and the visual arts in the mid-twentieth century and provides a backdrop for the emerging field of contemporary, intermedial art...

The Words of Others (Palabras ajenas)is the first full English translation of the Argentine artist León Ferrari's uncompromising literary masterpiece (1967). A critique of the Vietnam War and American imperial politics, the book weaves together hundreds of excerpts from newspapers, periodicals, works of history,...

The world of Argentine tango presents a glamorous façade of music and movement. Yet the immigrant artists whose livelihoods depend on the US tango industry receive little attention beyond their enigmatic public personas. More Than Two to Tango offers a detailed portrait of Argentine...

In a time of intensifying xenophobia and anti-immigration measures, this book examines the impulse to acquire a deeper understanding of cultural others. Immersions in Cultural Difference takes readers into the heart of immersive simulations, including a simulated terrorist training camp in Utah; mock Afghan...

This anthology of Gómez-Peña's performance chronicles, diary entries, poems, essays, and texts, sheds an extraordinary light on the life and work of this migrant provocateur.Author: Guillermo Gomez-PenaISBN-10: 0415182360ISBN-13: 9780415182362Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/27/2000Pages: 308Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.72lbsSize: 9.12h x 6.63w x 0.91dReview Citation(s): Library Journal 09/15/2000...

A collection presenting cutting edge research from music, dance, performance art, fashion and visual arts, written by scholar-practitioners working in Southeast Asia. This eclectic monograph explores multi-disciplinarily performativity through the body. Exploring the notion of the body as central to creative practice it draws...

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...

This book examines cultural participation from three different, but interrelated perspectives: participatory art and aesthetics; participatory digital media, and participatory cultural policies and institutions.Focusing on how ideals and practices relating to cultural participation express and (re)produce different "cultures of participation", an interdisciplinary team of...

Joseph Sobol is one of a select few contemporary scholar-practitioners to chart the evolution of storytelling from traditional foundations to its current multifarious presence in American life. The years since his classic The Storytellers' Journey: An American Revival (1999), have brought seismic shifts in...

Play helps define who we are as human beings. However, many of the leisurely/ludic activities people participate in are created and governed by corporate entities with social, political, and business agendas. As such, it is critical that scholars understand and explicate the ideological underpinnings...

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:...