The Methuen Drama Companion to Performance Art

Herausgeber: Ferdman, Bertie; Stokic, Jovana

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Produktbeschreibung

The Methuen Drama Companion to Performance Art offers a comprehensive guide to the major issues and interdisciplinary debates concerning performance in art contexts that have developed over the last decade. It understands performance art as an institutional, cultural, and economic phenomenon rather than as a label or object. Following the ever-increasing institutionalization and mainstreaming of performance, the book's chapters identify a marked change in the economies and labor practices surrounding performance art, and explore how this development is reflective of capitalist approaches to art and event production. Embracing what we perceive to be the 'oxymoronic status' of performance art-where it is simultaneously precarious and highly profitable-the essays in this book map the myriad gestures and radical possibilities of this extreme contradiction. This Companion adopts an interdisciplinary perspective to present performance art's legacies and its current practices. It brings together specially commissioned essays from leading innovative scholars from a wide range of approaches including art history, visual and performance studies, dance and theatre scholarship in order to provide a comprehensive and multifocal overview of the emerging research trends and methodologies devoted to performance art.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Februar 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 160mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 599g
• ISBN-13: 9781350057579
• ISBN-10: 1350057576
• Artikelnr.: 58018305

Autorenporträt

Bertie Ferdman is an associate professor at Borough Manhattan Community College at the City University of New York, USA. She is the author of Off Sites: Contemporary Performance beyond Site Specific (2018) and is co-editor of a Special Issue of Theater titled Performance Curators. Jovana Stokic is a Belgrade-born, New York-based art historian and curator. She is currently on the faculty of the MFA Art Practice, School of Visual Arts, New York, and New York University Steinhardt Department of Art and Art Professions. She holds a PhD from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements Part I -
Introduction Squaring Performance Art Bertie Ferdman (City University of
New York, USA) and Jovana Stokic (New York University, USA) Part II -
Issues and Problems: Future Directions in Performance Art Research Reruns
or New Turns Jovana Stokic (New York University, USA) Cross-disciplinarity
and Antitheatrical Historiographies of Performance Art Bertie Ferdman (City
University of New York, USA) Part III - Essays 1. How Performance Art Makes
History: Artists' Auto-histories of Happenings and Fluxus in the 1960s
Heike Roms (University of Exeter, UK) 2. Queer Performativity: A Critical
Genealogy of a Politics of Doing in Art Practice Amelia Jones (University
of Southern California, USA) 3. Taking Up Instructions for Becoming
Rebecca Schneider (Brown University, USA) 4. Caring for Black
Corporealities: Experimental Black Performance Thomas deFrantz (Duke
University, USA) 5. Between Contemporary Art and Performance: Dramaturgy
and Flow Peter Eckersall (City University of New York, USA) 6. Acting
Ethical: Performance Art Goes Public Malik Gaines (New York University,
USA) 7. Compassionate Acts:Performance as Radical Care Nikki Cesare
Schotzko (University of Toronto, Canada) 8. The Labor of the Artist,
Feminist Practices, and Troubles with Infrastructure Bojana Kunst
(University Giessen, Germany) 9. Gestural Study Sven Lütticken (Vrije
Universiteit, Netherlands) 10. Stomaching It: Black Performance Art and
Penetrating the Inscrutable Body Danielle Bainbridge (Northwestern, USA)
11. Performative Bodies and Artists/Spectators: The Case of Radical Latina
and Latin American Women Artists in Exhibition Cecilia Fajardo-Hill
(Independent Scholar, Venezuela) 12. Framing Live Art Lois Keidan (Live Art
Development Agency, UK) 13. From the Institution of Performance to the
Performance of Institutions Jonah Westerman (State University of New York,
USA) and Catherine Wood (Tate Modern, UK) 14. Performance in the Age of the
Technosphere Chris Salter (Concordia University, Canada) Part IV- Annotated
Bibliography and Resources Eylül Fidan Akinci (Ghent University, Belgium)
Index