Art - Performance

Taking its inspiration from Allan Kaprow's "happenings," which he described as "something spontaneous, something that just happens to happen," the exhibition A Fragile But Marvelous Life presents a series of works that investigate the relationship between everyday movement and performance. Rather than a traditional...

This volume, which originally appeared as a special issue of TDR/The Drama Review, looks at puppets, masks, and other performing objects from a broad range of perspectives.Puppets and masks are central to some of the oldest worldwide forms of art making and performance, as...

Encounters, transformations, and reflections from in-prison and post-release theater workshops See Me is a collection of intimate dialogues about collective experiences in the context of prison theater workshops. Each essay is a collaboration between two or three people who connected profoundly in the temporary...

In this book, Vera Dika rewrites the story of the Pictures Generation from the perspective of the Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center in Buffalo, NY. Her work is based on interviews with living artists, archival research, and personal collections, including films, videotapes, and sound recordings....

Tadeusz Kantor (1915-1990) was a Polish visual artist, writer, and theatre director, who can be placed among a select group of the twentieth century's most influential performance practitioners. The breadth and diversity of his artistic endeavours align Kantor with such varied figures as Stanislaw...

When life offers you a choice between heroism and compromise - what happens? Sometimes planes don't land the way they're supposed to. The people of a country have had enough of their leaders, but those leaders have to be replaced with something. A person...

How the work of several contemporary artists illuminates and challenges the policing of European borders and identity In this stunningly original book, Sara Nadal-Melsi? explores how the work of several contemporary artists illuminates the current crisis of European universalist values amid the brutal realities...

Liveness is a pivotal issue for performance theorists and artists. As live art covers both embodiment and disembodiment, many scholars have emphasized the former and interpreted the latter as the opposite side of liveness. In this book, the author demonstrates that disembodiment is also...

Encounters, transformations, and reflections from in-prison and post-release theater workshops See Me is a collection of intimate dialogues about collective experiences in the context of prison theater workshops. Each essay is a collaboration between two or three people who connected profoundly in the temporary...

Lee provides a comprehensive guide that traces the transformation of Korean theatre from traditional to modern theatre and examines the impact of the introduction of Western plays to Korean society.Important changes in Korean theatre are discussed chronologically from the beginning of the modernization: Sinpa...

This new book is first of two books to be published about the music business a collection of subjects previously released as ebooks. This book is the result of my 35 years in the business of music. Over those 35 years I have written,...

Glorious catastrophe presents a detailed critical analysis of the work of Jack Smith from the early 1960s until his AIDS-related death in 1989. Dominic Johnson argues that Smith's work offers critical strategies for rethinking art's histories after 1960. Heralded by peers as well as...

How archives perform and live performance is archived. Emerging from the first retrospective exhibition of performance art icon Jess Dobkin, this book reflects on the internationally acclaimed artist's playful and provocative practice as a performer, curator, and community activist. At the same time, it...

A life in pictures of a New York City performance artist, musician, and icon. New York City icon Kembra Pfahler has terrorized and tantalized audiences since her arrival in the Lower East Side in the early 1980s. Originally associated with the Cinema of Transgression,...

Since the 1970s, the performance and conceptual artist Suzanne Lacy has explored women's lives and experiences, as well as race, ethnicity, aging, economic disparities, and violence, through her pioneering community-based art. Combining aesthetics and politics, and often collaborating with other artists and community organizations,...

Lee provides a comprehensive insight into important topics within modern Korean theatre and conducts an in-depth evaluation of the major discourses that shaped Korean theatre during the 20th century.The book adopts a topical approach to explore modern Korean theatre through a more focused lens....

If you are an aspiring actor with dreams of becoming a success like Al Pacino, Julia Roberts, Brad Pitt and the likes, then this is the step-by-step blueprint for you. Here's what you get: - You will discover the secrets about the acting industry.-...

This book delves into the complex narratives surrounding the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian dispute through the unique lens of theatre. This ground-breaking exploration employs postcolonial theory to analyze a diverse array of theatrical works by Israeli, Palestinian, and Western playwrights. By juxtaposing portrayals of significant events...

A critical biography of artist Magda Stawarska via a series of journeys--from the streets of Istanbul to the canals of Venice and across the waters of Zanzibar. For nearly two decades, Polish-born, UK-based artist Magda Stawarska has explored the threshold of memory, the sanctioned...

Fungi Media positions performance art of bodily mutations as a form of corporeal philosophy. Examining ecologies of rot and fungal decomposition, it outlines a theory of fungosexuality beyond sexual reproduction and binary gender roles. This theoretical perspective repositions queer sexualities in the context of...

A collection of fascinating and provocative quotations from the world-renowned performance artist Marina Abramovic is arguably the most important and influential performance artist of our time. For decades, she has broken boundaries in iconic works such as The Artist Is Present (2010), where she...

Captivating documentation of Fernandes's childlike installation and performance that draws upon games such as hide-and-seek and follow-the-leaderThis publication is an intimate exploration of the titular installation and performance by Canadian artist Brendan Fernandes (born 1979), fusing photographic documentation, architectural drawings, an original dance score,...

Living the Dream: Building a Sustainable Career in the Performing Arts offers an accessible guide to understanding one's arts career as a business. Author: Kirstin Ch?vez, Johnathon PapeISBN-10: 1032600772ISBN-13: 9781032600772Publisher: Focal PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/12/2024Pages: 242Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.76lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.54d

A choreographed tour through urban landscapes interrogates the ways in which human bodies clash with built environmentsComplementing his multicity project Bodies in Urban Spaces, Urban Drifting documents Austrian artist Willi Dorner's (born 1959) dance-oriented guides through urban environments. Described as "a moving trail for...

Circulating Cultures is an edited book about the transformation of cultural materials through the Australian landscape. The book explores cultural circulation, exchange and transit, through events such as the geographical movement of song series across the Kimberley and Arnhem Land; the transformation of Australian...

Anthology and compilation of group performance documentation including poetry, lyrics, scripts, essays, fiction, and artist's commentary for Praxinoscope: Hours of the Day, performed October 12, 2022 at Poetic Research Bureau, 2220 Arts + Archives in Los Angeles, California, United States.Author: Derek Denckla, Xárene EskandarISBN-10:...

Moving Otherwise examines how contemporary dance practices in Buenos Aires, Argentina enacted politics within climates of political and economic violence from the mid-1960s to the mid-2010s. From the repression of military dictatorships to the precarity of economic crises, contemporary dancers and audiences consistently responded...

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,...

Performance art and Los Angeles, two subjects spectacularly resistant to definitions, illuminate each other in this searching study by Meiling Cheng. A marginal artistic pursuit by choice as well as necessity, performance art has flourished in and about "multicentric" Los Angeles for nearly four...

A seven-decade retrospective on the Destruction Art pioneer, Museo del Barrio founder and theorist of EthnoaestheticsThis comprehensive survey is published for El Museo del Barrio's 2022 exhibition on the American artist, activist, educator and founder of El Museo del Barrio, Raphael Montañez Ortiz (born...

"All I ever wanted was a man who wouldn't ask me questions"Across the foyer of a crowded theatre, a handsome young man catches sight of the most expensive prostitute in town. When they meet, a mutual obsession is ignited- one that tears both their...

A revelatory look at the life, work, and legacy of the legendary choreographer Alvin Ailey Alvin Ailey is one of the most celebrated choreographers of the twentieth century. The creator of iconic works such as Blues Suite, Revelations, and Cry, he is widely recognized...

When singing KARAOKE, it's time to look YOUR BEST Here are 102 T-Shirt Designs to express your philosophy about singing.Author: David Wright, Benny PhisherareeISBN-10: 1492155594ISBN-13: 9781492155591Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/23/2013Pages: 88Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.25lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.23d

Karaoke singer and artist, Benny Phisheraree wants you to look your best when performing. He has created over 100 T-Shirt designs to help you express your singing philosophy.Author: David Wright, Benny PhisherareeISBN-10: 1492162795ISBN-13: 9781492162797Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/15/2013Pages: 86Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.28lbsSize: 9.00h...

Collaborative conversations on Indigenous performance art, convened by a leading practitionerFor Breaking Protocol, transdisciplinary artist Maria Hupfield embarked on a research project on the protocols of Indigenous performance--tracing Indigenous knowledge systems, land-preservation practices and feminist scholarship to illuminate strategies for enacting refusal within decolonial...

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Hoping to discover the truth about their origins, the last clan of free women liberate the ancient journal of their ancestor, Nebia. Besieged by armies and running out of time, they seek to unravel an age-old mystery they hope will ensure freedom for their...

In addition to his work as visual artist, publisher, poet, and composer, Dick Higgins (1938-98) was also a genuine man of the theater. A founder of Fluxus, he was a major figure in artistic communities in downtown New York City, across Europe, and in...

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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...

Black Acting Methods seeks to offer alternatives to the Euro-American performance styles that many actors find themselves working with.　 A wealth of contributions from directors, scholars and actor trainers address afrocentric processes and aesthetics, and interviews with key figures in Black American theatre illuminate...

Description: A sensitive but cranky kid is born to a religious mid-western family. Due to the location and time period (1950s), he is safe roaming about on his own at almost any age, and gravitates to activities like sports, chasing skirts, and even farm...

Living History Museums: Undoing History Through Performance examines the performance techniques of Living History Museums, cultural institutions that merge historical exhibits with costumed live performance. Institutions such as Plimoth Plantation and Colonial Williamsburg are analyzed from a theatrical perspective, offering a new genealogy of...

New documentation of Joseph Beuys' controversial performance pieceMay 2024 marks the 50th anniversary of Joseph Beuys' infamous piece of performance art staged in New York City: I Like America and America Likes Me. The premise--a man and a wild coyote locked together inside a...

Jen, 30, is obsessed with personal branding and determined to break the glass ceiling to achieve her #girlboss destiny. Thad, 28, reminds himself "Today is an ordinary day, today is an ordinary day," to quell his waking fear of untimely death. Kat, 25, has...

Poems from a long and lucky life.A little risqué, a little sad, a little epic, somewhat mad.Most of these poems bubbled up unbidden. Some were scribbled on an envelope to be performed at a poet's breakfast, some for slam competitions, or inspired by a...

In addition to his work as visual artist, publisher, poet, and composer, Dick Higgins (1938-98) was also a genuine man of the theater. A founder of Fluxus, he was a major figure in artistic communities in downtown New York City, across Europe, and in...

In Collective Situations scholars, artists, and art collectives present a range of socially engaged art practices that emerged in Latin America during the Pink Tide period, between 1995 and 2010. This volume's essays, interviews, and artist's statements-many of which are appearing in English for...

'Tell me, please - is this a dream?'The night before he leads his troops into battle, the prince of Homburg strips off his uniform and goes sleepwalking. Moonstruck, his mind races with a young man's fantasies - love, ambition and victory. But when the...

An investigation into what happens in creative practice when the materials of art and research behave and perform in ways beyond the creators' intentions. In Alien Agency, Chris Salter tells three stories of art in the making. Salter examines three works in which the...