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,...

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...

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...

Blue Man Group has evolved from its experimental roots in New York City to a global brand. A combination of music, comedy, and state-of-the-art technology, the show is now seen by 2 million people every year and its broad fans include kids and adults,...

Since young male players were the norm during the English Renaissance, were all cross-dressed performances of female characters played with the same degree of seriousness? Probably not. Spectrums of Representation in Shakespearean Crossdressing examines...

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...

Exploring everything from company incorporation and marketing, to legal, finance and festivals, Starting a Theatre Company is the complete guide to running a low-to-no budget or student theatre company. Written by an experienced theatre practitioner and...

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,...

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

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...

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 9780991558520Author Constance DejongFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Primary InformationPublisher Primary InformationWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm)...

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...

This original and unique new book takes an integrated approach to interrogating the experience and location of the self/s within the context of performance art practice. In its framing and execution of practical exercises and focused snapshots of...

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 of essays brings together leading scholars of early modern drama and playhouse culture to reflect upon the study of playing and playgoing in early modern England. With a particular focus on the player-playgoer exchange as a site of...

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...

Surveying how Performance as a form has evolved as a distinct artistic sector to where it is today, Performance Making: a pedagogy for precarious times provides insight into the impact the artform has had across the creative sector and argues for its...

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...

Guerilla Performance and Multimedia is written by artists and for artists. It is designed for the benefit of artists engaged in creating original performance and multimedia work, including live art, installation, digital art and hybrids of theatre and...

The definitive illustrated overview of contemporary performance art. Performance Now charts the development of live art across six continents since the turn of the 21st century. It reveals how performance, so integral to the history of art in the 20th...

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...

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...

Embodied Reckonings examines the political and cultural aspects of contemporary performances that have grappled with the history of the "comfort women," the Japanese military's euphemism for the sexual enslavement of girls and young women-mostly...

performance art transcript, English and Greek dual text.Book InformationISBN 9789491677335Author Maria LalouFormat PaperbackImprint OnomatopeePublisher Onomatopee