Art - Performance

The debut memoir from the unhinged queer genius known as Dynasty Handbag. A freak's freak, iconoclast performance artist Jibz Cameron is best known for her multimedia act Dynasty Handbag, an alter ego lampooning the tragic absurdity of heterosexuality, queerness, the female body, capitalism, depression,...

This Architectural Design Journal focuses on how architectural skills are deployed in entertainment to communicate design and form the backdrops for stories to play out. It includes articles on installations, exhibition designs, entertainment architecture, narrative projects, speculations on future human identities, video gaming, and...

By exploring dynamic Jewish-Muslim interactions across North Africa and France through performance culture in the 20th and 21st centuries, we offer an alternative chronology and lens to a growing trend in media and scholarship that views these interactions primarily through conflict. Our volume interrogates...

Pioneering artist Laurie Anderson takes the reader through her most important work of the last five decades, revealing her boundless creativity and deft storytelling. Sometime before the pandemic, Anderson--a legendary figure in the worlds of art, performance, and music--was in the midst of preparing...

He set out to photograph Circus Flora from start to finish, aiming to capture its unique essence. Meet fantastic performers, crew members, and volunteers who created a sense of community that felt like family. Through these images, he hopes to showcase both the magical...

Deborah Kapchan's Taking Leave is a lyrical memoir that encompasses journeys both inner and outer, physical and spiritual. Taking readers from New York, Paris, and Casablanca to Jerusalem and Abu Dhabi while exploring her Christian childhood, Jewish lineage, and the release she found in...

Making connections between drama and drawing, Drawing as Performance introduces visual artists and designers to rehearsal techniques, theory and games as ways of developing image-making and visual communication skills.Author: Orly OrbachISBN-10: 1138086142ISBN-13: 9781138086142Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/21/2018Pages: 268Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.45lbsSize: 9.10h x 6.30w x 0.80d

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,...

Stunts of Late Nineteenth- Century New York: Aestheticised Precarity, Endangered Liveness examines the emergence of stunts in the media, politics, sport and art of New York at the turn of the twentieth century.This book investigates stunts in sport, media and politics, demonstrating how these...

What will become of us? Four people, the sole survivors of a shipwreck, crawl out of the sea. Two of them are masters, and two of them are servants; and all four are about to discover what life feels like when the boot is...

Performing Folk Songsis the first full-length volume to explore English folk singing from the perspective of performance studies. Using archival sources, family repertoire and recorded performances of interviewees, this book argues that archives and repertoires are produced in sensory environments and through embodied encounters....

At the heart of the dramatic arts lies a single phenomenon: human social interaction. The crux of the practitioner's work involves knowing how interaction works: knowing what a pause does, or why a particular intonation contour changes a line from interrogative to accusative, or...

Mass Performance: Systems and Citizens examines mass performance systems from the first major festival of the French Revolution through the democratic and socialist movements of the nationalizing nineteenth and twentieth centuries in Europe, to totalitarian communist and socialist regimes in the twentieth century, ending...

This smart, provocative book reveals how Useful Art is changing the world. Does art have to be beautiful? What if it can be useful instead? In this cutting-edge book, John Byrne shows how the concept of 'Useful Art' is helping artists and communities fight...

Read Wittmer's artist's book front to back, then back to front, and witness the changing narratives of her performance piecesThis bilingual (English/German) conceptual artist's book by Swiss artist Mahtola Wittmer (born 1993) can be read forward and backward, allowing two dual narratives to unfold...

Bryan Blankenship, The Amazing VanDoren, is an entertainer, magician, author, magic inventor and lecturer, who entertains and teaches across South Carolina and around the world. Before his semi- retirement he performed over 400 shows per year. He continues to bring his unique blend of...

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),...

There is extraordinary diversity, depth, and complexity in the encounter between theatre, performance, and human rights. Through an examination of a rich repertoire of plays and performance practices from and about countries across six continents, the contributors open the way toward understanding the character...

Caroline Bergvall's celebrated trilogy of interdisciplinary medievalist texts and projects--Meddle English (2011), Drift (2014), and Alisoun Sings (2019)--documents methods of reading and making that are poetically and politically alert, critically and culturally aware, linguistically attuned, and historically engaged. Drawing on the wide-ranging body of...

Introduces a new way of understanding influence, reception, and adaptation via the work of Italy's most famous modern writer In Transmedial Resonance, Robert A. Rushing addresses the remarkable and ongoing responses to the imagination of Italo Calvino, Italy's most important modern writer. Since his...

Introduces a new way of understanding influence, reception, and adaptation via the work of Italy's most famous modern writer In Transmedial Resonance, Robert A. Rushing addresses the remarkable and ongoing responses to the imagination of Italo Calvino, Italy's most important modern writer. Since his...

Pyotr Pavlensky turns state violence into his medium--now, in his own words, he reveals the theory behind the fire. Pyotr Pavlensky's Subject-Object Art Theory is both a manifesto and a method--an incendiary redefinition of what art can and should be in an era of...

Reexamining the works and legacy of the acclaimed multimedia feminist artist and their significance for today's worldAustrian artist Valie Export (born 1940) has produced one of the most significant bodies of feminist art in the postwar period, as a pioneer in the fields of...

Prepare for the spotlight with Joanne Watkinson's expertly crafted scenes designed specifically for young actors. Whether you're auditioning for film, TV or theatre, this collection offers a diverse range of compelling scenes to showcase your talent and captivate casting directors. Inside, you'll find a...

Erotic Resistance celebrates the erotic performance cultures that have shaped San Francisco. It preserves the memory of the city's bohemian past and its essential role in the development of American adult entertainment by highlighting the contributions of women of color, queer women, and trans...

Dive into the world of Kendrick Lamar, and celebrate the artist's rise from Compton rapper to hip-hop royalty.This book is your backstage pass to everything K-Dot - tracing Kendrick Lamar's Californian roots through his hip-hop rise, to that unforgettable 2025 Super Bowl halftime performance....

A deep dive into the career, creativity, and influence of Chappell Roan, exploring her groundbreaking music and cultural impact.Pop visionary, trendsetter, and boundary-pushing artist, Chappell has redefined modern music with her genre-blurring sound and fearless creativity. From gorgeous hits Good Luck, Babe! and Pink...

This smart, provocative book reveals how Useful Art is changing the world. Does art have to be beautiful? What if it can be useful instead? In this cutting-edge book, John Byrne shows how the concept of 'Useful Art' is helping artists and communities fight...

Charley Chase was among the most underrated comedians of his era. Despite his unassuming and refined demeanor, he predominantly conveyed his perspective and the psychological dynamics that govern human relationships through his oeuvre. This volume undertakes a comprehensive analysis of his most critically acclaimed...

Many people relax when coding is introduced as a language, rather than math. Even if someone creates alone, the technology involved in the process has already been developed by somebody else. Even one person's business requires professional input from others, and collaborations are often...

Deborah Kapchan's Taking Leave is a lyrical memoir that encompasses journeys both inner and outer, physical and spiritual. Taking readers from New York, Paris, and Casablanca to Jerusalem and Abu Dhabi while exploring her Christian childhood, Jewish lineage, and the release she found in...

'A magnificently readable tour of theatrical history conducted by our best-informed living critic.' - Michael Billington 'Benedict Nightingale's characteristically witty, insightful and enthusiastic reports make you wish you'd been sitting next to him during his greatest moments in the theatre.' - Ian McKellen Starting...

A tactical guide for nonprofit arts leaders, revealing the entrepreneurial traits that turn creative passion into sustainable success. Entrepreneurial Arts and Cultural Leadership focuses on real-world strategies for developing the entrepreneurial mindset necessary for leading and sustaining nonprofit arts organizations. Bonnie Fogel and Brett...

Sonosyntactics introduces the reader to over forty-five years of Paul Dutton's diverse and inventive poetry, ranging from lyrics, prose poems, and visual work to performance texts and scores. Perhaps best known for his acclaimed solo sound performances and his contributions to the iconic sound...

Love Connects: My Life in Dance offers an intimate glimpse into the life of one of Singapore's most influential figures in the arts. As co-founder and artistic director of Singapore's first professional dance company, the Singapore Dance Theatre (SDT), Goh Soo Khim played a...

This book examines the social and cultural conditions that governed performance art in the German Middle Ages from 1170 to 1400. Poet-performers are central to understanding both literature and performance art because these entertainers, more than any other group, influenced the creation, dissemination, and...

Conceptual Performance explores how the radical visual art that challenged material aesthetics in the 1960s and 1970s tested and extended the limits, character and concept of performance.Author: Nick KayeISBN-10: 1138907650ISBN-13: 9781138907652Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/22/2023Pages: 266Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.87lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.59d

The importance of play and fun to people's lives cannot be stressed enough in today's cultural climate of high stress, high stakes, and competition. One activity that gains recognition and credibility as both fun and transformative is theatrical improvisation or improv. In this book,...

The clash between an exile community making art and the expectations of others A groundbreaking exploration of how diasporic Burmese artists navigate the intricate intersections of art, politics, and humanitarianism, Performing Vulnerability delves into the complexities of vulnerability as both a personal and a...

Offers emerging and established arts and nonprofit leaders a deep understanding of establishing an entrepreneurial mindset, enabling them to adapt quickly to opportunities while meeting the demands of managing the complex operations of an arts and cultural enterprise. Both a classroom text and case...

This anthology presents and discusses current tools, methods, and analytical frameworks to address artistic interventions, taking a multidirectional approach that accounts for the positionality of perspectives and highlights the nondirectional formation of the interventions at hand. How do practices of artistic intervention engage with...

Author: Candice HopkinsISBN-10: 1954947119ISBN-13: 9781954947115Publisher: Dancing Foxes PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/28/2025Pages: 544Format: Paperback

Reimagining theatre as a living, breathing collaboration between professional artists and the communities they serve. Jonathan Petherbridge reflects on three decades as Artistic Director of London Bubble, where he brought together volunteer and professional artists to create a form he calls Vernacular Theatre. Emerging...

A radical rethinking of theatricality as a disruptive force that unsettles knowledge and redefines the boundaries between theory and performance. In Theatricality Beyond Disciplines, Amin Erfani expands the concept of theatricality beyond the stage, tracing its destabilizing power through literature, psychoanalysis, media, and philosophy....

Scholarship and performance combine to show how drag can be a blueprint for critique, care, teaching, and worldmaking. Lessons in Drag brings to life a vibrant and thought-provoking dialogue between scholar Kareem Khubchandani and his drag persona LaWhore Vagistan. Beginning with an intimate interview,...

Iconoclast and artist Pope.L uses the body, sex, and race as his materials the way other artists might use paint, clay, or bronze. His work problematizes social categories by exploring how difference is marked economically, socially, and politically. Working in a range of media...

The Masquerade Handbook was developed in 1991 to help those wonderful people who volunteer to run science fiction and fantasy masquerade competitions. The art of competitive costuming had blossomed over the previous decade, and the complexity associated with the masquerade had also grown. The...

Draw the Line critically examines an exhibition by Brussels-based artist Jimmy Robert (born 1975), realized at The Power Plant in Toronto. The central focus is a commissioned performance piece that explores the gestures, marks and effects produced by the moving or performing body.Author: Jimmy...

Ferndale, Laburnum Grove. A quiet, residential address in one of the newer north London suburbs. George Radfern, decent, respectable citizen and householder spends his Sunday evenings in his greenhouse, listening to Handel on the wireless. But when his grasping in-laws and daughter's obnoxious beau...

This volume explores the disruptive effects of militarism, war and social unrest in early modern drama. Engaging with Simon Barker's seminal work on dramatic representations of war and militarism, contributors highlight what often lies hidden beneath the surface of martial narratives, treating them as...