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 and its methods of display, representation, and mediation in the wider cultural sphere, the book's chapters identify a marked change in the economies and labor practices surrounding performance art and its institutional curating and presenting practices, reflective of an advanced stage of capitalism that approaches art production in tandem with 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. The Companion activates an interdisciplinary perspective to better attend to 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 non-hierarchical merging of the disciplines within and between the humanities. It provides ten methodological directions that examine possibilities of transformative change-the core of performance art's transgressive radical legacy. The book also includes a section on new directions and resources devoted to performance art. The chapters will thus provide multifocal perspectives on recent research trends to offer an array of intertwined methodologies.

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Produktdetails

• Methuen Drama Handbooks
• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Oktober 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9781350336162
• ISBN-10: 1350336165
• Artikelnr.: 64523651

Autorenporträt

Bertie Ferdman is Professor of Theatre at Borough Manhattan Community College and consortium faculty at The Graduate Center, CUNY, USA. Recent publications include Off Sites: Contemporary Performance beyond Site-Specific (2018) and Curating Dramaturgies: How Dramaturgy and Curating are Intersecting in the Contemporary Arts (2021), co-edited with Peter Eckersall. 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, USA, 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