Art - Performance

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...

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