Art - Performance

This book charts the broad cultural impact of the medieval and early modern female performer: how she engages with her historical origins in classical drama, works within contemporary cultural and professional networks, and sets the terms for female performance in subsequent historical periods. Moving...

A foundational work of performance art utilizing two early chatbots to critique the male domination of emerging technologiesA 1976 performance by American artist Barbara T. Smith (born 1931), I Am Abandoned featured a conversation in real time between two psychoanalytic computer programs (two of...

What is a live performance? And why is semiotics the best approach for the analysis and interpretation of the performing arts? Drawing on semiotic developments of the past five decades, this book introduces students to the semiotic analysis of live performances and provides them...

Includes the plays Venus Observed, The Dark is Light Enough and Curtmantle This volume of Christopher Fry's original stage work concludes his 'Season Plays' with Venus Observed ('Autumn') and The Dark is Light Enough ('Winter').In the first of these, commissioned by Laurence Olivier, a...

In an audacious, provocative protest against flagrant global attempts to sexualise and commodify childhood for profit, award-winning artist Bryony Kimmings and her niece Taylor, nine, decided to play the global tween machine at its own game by inventing dinosaur-loving, bike riding, tuna pasta-eating, alternative...

The first monograph of Chicago-based Theaster Gates, one of the most exciting and highly regarded contemporary artists at work today.Theaster Gates has developed an expanded artistic practice that includes space development, object making, performance and critical engagement with many publics. Gates transforms spaces, institutions,...

Atoui's sculptural instruments invite participants to conduct sonic experiments with natural materialsLebanese artist and composer Tarek Atoui (born 1980) explores the medium of sound and how it shapes perception through dynamic installations and collaborative performances. He tests the unique ways in which elements such...

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...

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...

What is a live performance? And why is semiotics the best approach for the analysis and interpretation of the performing arts?Drawing on semiotic developments of the past five decades, this book introduces students to the semiotic analysis of live performances and provides them with...

A cultural history of disability, performance, and work in the modern United States In 1967, the US government funded the National Theatre of the Deaf, a groundbreaking rehabilitation initiative employing deaf actors. This project aligned with the postwar belief that transforming bodies, minds, aesthetics,...

This book will accompany an exhibition of the same name which will be held at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh from 3 December 2016 to 21 May 2017 Many of the works in this book have never been published before Features...

By giving voice to these women and men, this book honours the diversity of maternities, and validates new academic and creative methods in figuring herstory as a patchwork intersection of voices across and through time - simultaneously acknowledging difference and diversity as well as...

New essays open a variety of philosophies that explore and challenge the relationship between education and performance art. The essays collected in Performance Art in Practice are written from a practical point of view: how we concretely teach performance art, why we have chosen...

Contemporary visual and performance artists have adopted modern medical technologies such as MRIs and computer imaging--and the bodily access they imply--to reveal their limitations. In doing so they emphasize the unknowability of another's bodily experience and the effects--physical, emotional, and social--of medical procedures.In The...

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...