Performance

What is 'performance drawing'? When does a drawing turn into a performance? Is the act of drawing in itself a performative process, whether a viewer is present or not? Through conversation, interviews and essays, the authors illuminate these questions,...

The story of cult figure Cookie Mueller's life through an oral history composed of more than 80 interviews with those who knew her, with photographs by David Armstrong, Robert Mapplethorpe, Peter Hujar and others Cookie Mueller (1949-1989) was a...

A breathtaking collection of contemporary photography, sculpture, illustration, and design that celebrates the world of danceThere's no question that humans have been fascinated by movement and dance for as long as we've been creating art, from...

Kneehigh now finds itself celebrated as one of the UK's most exciting theatre companies. This collection contains the performance texts of four of their highly acclaimed shows: Tristan & Yseult, The Bacchae, The Wooden Frock and The Red Shoes. With...

"Performance" has multiple and often overlapping meanings that signify a wide variety of social behaviors. In this invitation to reflect on the power of performance, Diana Taylor explores many of its uses and iterations: artistic, economic, sexual,...

Winner of the 2023 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism Winner of the 2023 ASAP Book Prize, given by the Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present Explores expressionlessness, inscrutability, and emotional withholding in Black...

Butchering the classics through avant-garde amateurism: the Portsmouth Sinfonia embodied the joyous collectivism of 1970s British counterculture In 1970, galvanized in part by the musical experiments of avant-garde composers Gavin Bryars, John Cage...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914345029Author Bath Arts WorkshopFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Tangent BooksPublisher Tangent Books

What is artistic resonance and how can it be linked to one's life and one's art? This latest book of essays from legendary theatre director Anne Bogart, considers the creation of resonance in the artistic endeavour, with a focus on the performing...

Stunningly beautiful, deeply puzzling, profoundly moving or intensely unsettling - performance art can evoke a wide variety of responses. In this important and richly illustrated book, Catherine Wood, one of the world's leading curators and writers on...

During the 1960s, artists from Alan Kaprow and Yoko Ono to Andy Warhol and Richard Serra stopped making "art" as it has been thought of since the Renaissance. They staged performances that mixed everyday life with theater and in yet other, often ironic,...

The experience and variety of walking practices have never been so broad, relevant or unpredictable. Walking Bodies charts some of their very latest developments. Editors Helen Billinghurst, Claire Hind and Phil Smith put out a call for artists,...

Live, or performance, art is one of the most controversial and hotly discussed areas of art practice to emerge in the second half of the twentieth century. The history of live art is one of challenge to audiences, art traditions and cultural values. With...

On 29 September 1981, Peter Turner received a phone call that would change his life. His former lover, Hollywood actress Gloria Grahame, had collapsed in a Lancaster hotel and was refusing medical attention. He had no choice but to take her into his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935247142Author J Blake FicheraFormat PaperbackPage Count 356Imprint Silman-James Press,U.S.Publisher Silman-James Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 606g

How Latinx artists engage in sonic subcultures to reject neoliberal definitions of belonging What is the connection between the British rock star Morrissey and the Latinx culture of transnational "unbelonging"? What is the relevance of "dyke chords" in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683966586Author Sun RaFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint FantagraphicsPublisher Fantagraphics

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781633450301Author Ron MagliozziFormat HardbackPage Count 184Imprint Museum of Modern ArtPublisher Museum of Modern ArtWeight(grams) 1080g

On 29 September 1981, Peter Turner received a phone call that would change his life. His former lover, Hollywood actress Gloria Grahame, had collapsed in a Lancaster hotel and was refusing medical attention. He had no choice but to take her into his...

Stanislavsky and Race is the first book to explore the role that Konstantin Stanislavsky's "system" and its legacies can play in building, troubling and illuminating today's anti-racist theatre practices.This collection of essays from leading figures in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913689490Author Tai ShaniFormat HardbackPage Count 72Imprint Strange Attractor PressPublisher Strange Attractor Press

Academic theology is in need of a new genre. In "Transgressive Devotion" Natalie Wigg-Stevenson articulates a theological vision of that genre as performance art. She argues that theology done as performance art stops trying to describe who God is,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615874166Author Lana YoungFormat PaperbackPage Count 98Imprint Jon EmmPublisher Jon EmmWeight(grams) 141gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 5mm

This edited collection brings together essays presenting an interdisciplinary dialogue between theatre and performance and the fields of care ethics, care studies, health and social care. The book advances our understanding of performance as a mode of...

Unlimited action concerns the limits imposed upon art and life, and the means by which artists have exposed, refused, or otherwise reshaped the horizon of aesthetics and of the practice of art, by way of performance art. It examines the 'performance of...

Come join Figs in Wigs for their live art feminist adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's classic novel Little Women. Blurring the boundaries of live art, music, theatre, comedy and dance Little Wimmin will examine how we think about the past, what's wrong...

Beyond the Happening uncovers the heterogeneous, uniquely interdisciplinary performance-based works that emerged in the aftermath of the early Happenings. By the mid-1960s Happenings were widely declared outmoded or even 'dead', but this book reveals how...

A collection of essays that offer an understanding of how performance art can be a tool for dissent against power structures and a means to reach a broad audience outside informed art circles. Challenging dominant histories of the genre, this book...

To be like water, without form, able to adapt to all circumstances— this is the ideal of the Berlin-based artist moki. In her paintings, she meanders between timeless escapism and confrontation with the issues of our time. Fiction and reality are blurred...

Taking as its starting point the first-ever retrospective exhibition (2021) of Canadian performance artist Jess Dobkin, the book reflects on the internationally acclaimed artist’s playful and provocative practice as performer, activist, curator, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783000765889Author Isabel LewisFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint Floating Opera PressPublisher Floating Opera Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783959053334Author Kata KrasznahorkaiFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Spector BooksPublisher Spector Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783037642832Author Nora M. AlterFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint JRP RingierPublisher JRP Ringier

The fifth volume in the acclaimed series by performance art historian RoseLee Goldberg, Performa 13 features projects from more than 120 of the leading artists working in performance today, in collaboration with more than 100 curators and arts...

Features 150 artists notable for their sonic, visual, and live works, spanning early radio experiments of the 1880s up to the present. The volume is organized in sections dealing with performance, composition, installation, broadcast, public works, and...

Internationally recognized for her visually elegant, thought-provoking video art, Mary Lucier was a sculptor, photographer and performance artist before she turned to video in 1973. This volume brings together a selection of Lucier's previously...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789491677335Author Maria LalouFormat PaperbackImprint OnomatopeePublisher Onomatopee

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783869844282Author MahonyFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint Verlag fur Moderne KunstPublisher Verlag fur Moderne KunstWeight(grams) 476g

A close-up history of the Yugoslav artists who broke down the boundaries between public and private   In the decades leading up to the dissolution of socialist Yugoslavia, a collective of young artists based in Zagreb took to using the city’s public...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615702582Author Roselee GoldbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint East of BorneoPublisher East of Borneo