Shannon Jackson

Social Works

Performing Art, Supporting Publics

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Shannon Jacksonâ s Social Works mediates between visual and performance studies, incorporating political, aesthetic and social discourses. This book uses case studies and contemporary methodologies to give insight into experimental art-making.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 310
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Februar 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 137mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 410g
• ISBN-13: 9780415486019
• ISBN-10: 0415486017
• Artikelnr.: 32560248

Autorenporträt

Shannon Jackson is the director of the Arts Research Center at University of California at Berkeley where she is also Professor of Rhetoric and of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies. Her award-winning previous publications include Professing Performance (2004) and Lines of Activity (2000).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Performance, Aesthetics, and Support 2. Quality Time: Social Practice
Debates in Contemporary Art 3. High Maintenance: The Sanitation Aesthetics
of Mierle Laderman Ukeles 4. Staged Management: Theatricality and
Institutional Critique 5. Tech Support: Labor in the Global Theatres of The
Builders Association and Rimini Protokoll 6. Welfare Melancholia: The
Public Works of Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset 7. Unfederated Theatre:
Paul Chan Waiting in New Orleans