Art - Performance

Author: Mohamed AlmusibiliISBN-10: 3037646241ISBN-13: 9783037646243Publisher: Jrp RingierLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/04/2025Pages: 272Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.00lbsSize: 8.98h x 6.38w x 0.71d

Author: Cally SpoonerISBN-10: 8867496425ISBN-13: 9788867496426Publisher: Mousse PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/11/2025Pages: 120Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.45lbsSize: 8.50h x 4.70w x 0.50d

Daisy is sixteen. She was normal. Now she's just an ill person with a disease no one has heard of. The hospital tells her father Peter that she must travel regularly to London for specialist treatment - but how on earth will he get...

Author: Marina AbramovicISBN-10: 3775757317ISBN-13: 9783775757317Publisher: Hatje CantzLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/04/2025Pages: 352Format: HardcoverWeight: 3.40lbsSize: 11.18h x 8.74w x 1.18d

A study on empowering systemically marginalized youth through applied theater. Drawing on over twenty years of scholarship from Diane Conrad's academic career in applied theater research with systemically marginalized youth, this book examines applied theater research conducted with youth in three specific contexts: alternative...

Beyond the Happening uncovers the heterogeneous, uniquely interdisciplinary performance-based works that emerged in the aftermath of the early Happenings. By the mid-1960s Happenings were widely declared outmoded or even 'dead', but this book reveals how many practitioners continued to work with the form during...

Italian artist Gian Maria Tosatti (born 1980) creates sculptures and site-specific installations centered on collectivity and memory, many of which are conceived for entire buildings or urban areas. His exhibition at Pirelli HangarBicocca, documented here, consists of two new series of paintings.Author: Gian Maria...

Herbert Blau here reflects on performance as it moved from the theatricalized activism of the sixties into the theoretical activism of the eighties. The essays theorize rather than formulate an ideological program. Blau takes risks at the speculative edge of thought. The Eye of...

There is growing recognition of the value of the Arts in helping shape understandings and capabilities for life essential for meeting the challenges of the 21st century. Consequently, in Australia, the Arts are now mandated for all students from kindergarten to year 9. In...

It's difficult to pinpoint the origins of cruising. While the term was used by men seeking casual encounters with other men in the parks and streets of New York City as early as the 1920s, historical records show the practice is much older. Cruising...

In nineteenth-century Europe the ruling elites viewed the theater as a form of communication which had enormous importance. The theater provided the most significant form of mass entertainment and was the only arena aside from the church in which regular mass gatherings were possible....

In Abject Performances Leticia Alvarado draws out the irreverent, disruptive aesthetic strategies used by Latino artists and cultural producers who shun standards of respectability that are typically used to conjure concrete minority identities. In place of works imbued with pride, redemption, or celebration, artists...

A collection of essays that offer an understanding of how performance art can be a tool for dissent against power structures and a means to reach a broad audience outside informed art circles. Challenging dominant histories of the genre, this book focuses on trans-local...

Horizontal together is an up-close look at the cultural and political power of the langourous queer body, combining historical research, queer theory and the analysis of bodily gestures. The book presents a dancerly story of 1960s art focusing on Andy Warhol, underground filmmaker Jack...

A collection of essays examining experimental scores and source documents from the postwar avant-gardes, interpreted by experts on art, music, dance, and poetry. Individuals working in and across the fields of visual art, music, poetry, theater, and dance in the mid-twentieth century began to...

A deep dive into the practice of performance artist Leigh Bowery that reveals the fullness of his extravagant range. Leigh Bowery: Performative Costuming and Live Art is a critical exploration of the creative practice, social-historical context, and cultural impact of the late London-based artist...

A deep dive into the practice of performance artist Leigh Bowery that reveals the fullness of his extravagant range. Leigh Bowery: Performative Costuming and Live Art is a critical exploration of the creative practice, social-historical context, and cultural impact of the late London-based artist...

"Sited Body, Public Visions" is a remarkably personal account of the evolution of artist Ernesto Pujol's social practice as a public performer and social choreographer. His intimate text combines early childhood reminiscences, monastic experiences, memories of partners, letters exchanged with artist friends, and insider...

Action As SculptureIn the early 1960s, Franz Erhard Walther (b. Fulda, 1939; lives and works in Fulda), moving in the orbit of the Minimal Art movement, devised an open conception of art that involves the beholders as active participants. His understanding of their actions...

Turn off the phone, put on some good music, eat some junk food and have fun coloring stoned creatures. Go with them on this colorful psychedelic journey.- Contains 30 beautiful black and white stoner drawings to color.- the drawings are placed on one side...

An innovative and much-needed critical work on music and memorialization in relation to AIDS, 9/11, and anti-Black violence in America Music has long served as a powerful medium for communal mourning and remembrance in times of crisis. Audible Loss examines musical responses to three...

An innovative and much-needed critical work on music and memorialization in relation to AIDS, 9/11, and anti-Black violence in America Music has long served as a powerful medium for communal mourning and remembrance in times of crisis. Audible Loss examines musical responses to three...

The official journal of the Mid-America Theatre ConferenceTheatre History Studies (THS) is a peer-reviewed journal of theatre history and scholarship published annually since 1981 by the Mid-America Theatre Conference (MATC), a regional body devoted to theatre scholarship and practice. The conference encompasses the states...

Recent performances from the recipient of the 2020 Venice Dance Biennale Golden Lion AwardThis volume gathers documentation of four performance pieces by Spanish artist and dancer La Ribot (born 1962), showcased at the Royal Academy of Spain in Rome in 2021. Presented in dialogue...

Interdisciplinary and global in scope, Performing Archives/Archives of Performance investigates the relationship between live performance and recordings, bringing new--and productive--tensions between permanence and ephemerality into relief. Advancing theoretical understandings and analyzing specific artworks, performances, and archives, the contributors formulate new ways of understanding history,...

Suffering in cinema can be crucial to how stars are cast in roles and perceived by audiences, whether it is performed on the screen or weathered in the form of scandal, heartbreak, disfiguration, or aging in an actor's real life. In Star Bodies and...

In this stunning one-of-a-kind history of Carnegie Hall, Pulitzer Prize-winning music writer Tim Page tells the sweeping story of the world's most celebrated musical institution. Page's narrative illuminates Carnegie Hall's diverse lineage of superlative performers, from classical music legends such as Vladimir Horowitz and...

"I believe art re-ritualizes the everyday to reveal something fresh about our lives. This revelation is a vitality and it is a power to change the world."--Pope.L Pope.L (b. Newark, US, 1955; d. Chicago, US, 2023) was one of the foremost creators of political...

Examining Afro-German artists' use of Afrofuturist tropes to critique German racial history The term Afrofuturism was first coined in the 1990s to describe African diasporic artists' use of science fiction, speculative fiction, and fantasy to reimagine the diaspora's pasts and to counter not only...

Chronicling 10 years of the duo's collaborative practice and their influential artist-run performance and theater spaces in BerlinThis book, German Theater 2010-2022, is the first monograph on the work of the artist duo Calla Henkel and Max Pitegoff. Their manifold practices play out, live...

Marina Abramovic is the creator of pioneering performance art which transcends the form's provocative origins. Her visceral and extreme performances have tested the limits of both body and mind, communicating with audiences worldwide on a personal and political level. Updated and revised throughout, the...

Queering the Stage: Inclusive Approaches to Performing Gender and Sexuality addresses a history of stereotyping and provides inclusive approaches to navigating gender and sexuality in a way that does not reduce the broad spectrum of LGBTQ+ communities into a single monolith.Butch it up! Be...

Examining Afro-German artists' use of Afrofuturist tropes to critique German racial history The term Afrofuturism was first coined in the 1990s to describe African diasporic artists' use of science fiction, speculative fiction, and fantasy to reimagine the diaspora's pasts and to counter not only...

The first anthology/reader of performance art of Aotearoa New Zealand, Resetting the Coordinates offers a lively, 50-year critical survey of Aotearoa New Zealand's globally unique performance art scene. From the post-object and performance art of the late 1960s to the rich vein of Maori...

Considers the character of the "Stage Indian" in American theater and its racial and political impact Redface unearths the history of the theatrical phenomenon of redface in nineteenth- and twentieth-century America. Like blackface, redface was used to racialize Indigenous peoples and nations, and even...

JR's latest collaborative public installations highlight the worldwide child refugee crisisJR (born 1983) is considered one of the most important street artists of the last 20 years, famous throughout the world for his projects combining photography, public art and social politics. The plight of...

A collection of memories chronicling love, grief, and a life lived on and off stage Raised on a farm and educated in a prairie Bible school, Layne Coleman escapes the confines of his stiflingly religious upbringing at an early age to pursue a life...

I don't know who he is but he's old, he's got to know stuff... he's got to be like wise and stuff yeah? Anton Chekhov, masterful playwright and mirror to Russian society, awakening from one hundred years of sleep, is thrust rudely into twenty...

Carsten H?ller invites readers to disrupt their daily lives with 336 mind-expanding diversions. They can be played alone, in pairs or in teams, in the street, in bed, on a train, wherever. No props or materials are needed. Just one body, all senses and...

This book focuses on the performance art of Marilyn Arsem, an internationally acclaimed performance artist known for her innovative and experimental work. Arsem's work addresses women's history and myth-making capacities, the potency of site and geography, the idea of the audience as witnesses, and...

A new expanded edition documenting the seminal notation theory instrumental to dance, behavioral science and more fieldsDeveloped by Noa Eshkol and Abraham Wachmann in the 1950s, Eshkol-Wachman Movement Notation (EWMN) is a polyphonic notation system treating different parts of the body as separate instruments....

Author: Marcus JamesISBN-10: 106868691XISBN-13: 9781068686917Publisher: Anima MundiLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/21/2024Pages: 304Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.70lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.43w x 0.76d

Gestures: A body of work is a cross-disciplinary collection of feminist approaches to 'gesture' that considers the term's complex registers across embodied, aesthetic and political scenes. Attending to gestural movements, languages, feelings and communications, the book argues that gestures can unsettle gendered, sexed and...

Collected interviews from a prominent Lebanese theater artistA leading voice in Lebanon's cultural diaspora, acclaimed stage actor and visual artist Rabih Mroué (born 1967) produces work that addresses the contested memory of historical events such as the Lebanese civil war, the Arab Spring and...

re.act.feminism #2 is an international, multi-annual performance and exhibition project traveling through Europe since 2011. The core archive contains more than 250 videos, photographs and other documentation of gender-oriented, feminist and queer performance art, from the 1960s to the early 1980s.Author: Bettina KnaupISBN-10: 3869844604ISBN-13:...

"Richard Foreman reinvented dialogue, action, sound, stage design, and philosophical groundwork as no other stage artist in our history."--PEN/Laura Pels Master American Dramatist Award citationDuring the forty-five years Richard Foreman has been staging his wildly inventive work, he has been wrestling with the basic...

"Ms. Finley hasn't lost the power to disturb."--Ben Brantley, The New York Times No other performing artist has captured the psychological complexity of this decade as Karen Finley has. In her inimitable style, she has embodied some of the most troubling figures to cast...

What does an assemblage made out of crumpled newspaper have in common with an empty room in which the lights go on and off every five seconds? This book argues that they are both examples of a 'precarious' art that flourished from the late...

The climate crisis demands an imaginative leap: We will create a just and regenerative world only if we dare to conjure it and use our vision to guide us through the difficulties. So, let's all be solarpunks and dream up radical futures where nature...

Ballet, Dressage, Baroque in Service to FeminismRose English (b. Hereford, UK, 1950) developed her singular practice surrounded by the conceptual art of the 1970s, which remains seminal today, and in the orbit of the feminist avant-garde. Boasting an extraordinarily diverse oeuvre, she ranks among...