Performance

Laurie Anderson is one of the most revered artists working today, and she is as prolific as she is inventive. She is a musician, performance artist, composer, fiction writer, and filmmaker (her most recent foray, Heart of a Dog, was lauded as an...

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...

This new interpretation of the structure and meaning of the Happenings produced by Allan Kaprow (1927-2006) and Claes Oldenburg (b. 1929) in the late 1950s and 1960s sheds light on the context, theoretical framework, and working practice unique to this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789492095206Author Guy CoolsFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint ValizPublisher Valiz

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935247234Author J Blake FicheraFormat PaperbackPage Count 492Imprint Silman-James Press,U.S.Publisher Silman-James Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 826g

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

Endless Shout asks how, why and where performance and improvisation can take place inside a museum. The book documents a six-month series of experimental performances organized by the Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, where five...

The Body in Sound, Music and Performance brings together cutting-edge contributions from women working on and researching contemporary sound practice. This highly interdisciplinary book features a host of international contributors and places emphasis on...

Would you believe that you could ask a full-grown man to hold a penny for you and then tell him to drop it and finds he can't, hard as he may try? In what is undoubtedly the most original magic book of our time, John Fisher shows the reader how, with...

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...

The Green Room & Science Lab, The Panther Ejaculates, Uptight Upright, Upside Down, JABBA, I'M BACK! and Cocaine and Caviar-Monster Chetwynd gives her performances playful and often off-beat titles. Her colorful, imaginative costumes and props are all...

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

Drama-based Pedagogy examines the mutually beneficial relationship between drama and education, championing the versatility of drama-based teaching and learning designed in conjunction with classroom curricula. Written by seasoned educators and based...

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...

A history of 1960s activist art group Black Mask. With Up Against the Real, Nadja Millner-Larsen offers the first comprehensive study of the group Black Mask and its acrimonious relationship to the New York art world of the 1960s. Cited as pioneers of...

How performance has transformed the status of the art object, in works by Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Oskar Schlemmer, Robert Morris and more Presenting works from the early 20th century to today, The Paradox of Stillness: Art, Object, and Performance...

As the nature of contemporary performance continues to expand into new forms, genres and media, it requires an increasingly diverse vocabulary. Reading Contemporary Performance provides students, critics and creators with a rich understanding of the key...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781633450066Author David VelascoFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Museum of Modern ArtPublisher Museum of Modern ArtWeight(grams) 420g

In this important volume, Jay Sanders and J. Hoberman explore the vibrant underground performance art scene of 1970s New York. Focusing on little-known and long-forgotten works, which were often performed in live/work lofts, storefronts, and alternative...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783753304571Author Christopher WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 50Imprint Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther KonigPublisher Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957393875Author Katherine AranielloFormat PaperbackPage Count 66Imprint Live Art Development AgencyPublisher Live Art Development Agency

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782914563437Author Laurie AndersonPage Count 64Imprint Dis VoirPublisher Dis Voir

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 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

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

"If you haven't read this book yet--buy it, take it home, and read it now! This is the work that made me get off my ass and actually do something, and it will inspire you, too."--Kathleen Hanna, singer, Bikini Kill, Le Tigre and The Julie Ruin "I...

The neo-burlesque movement seeks to restore a sense of glamour, theatricality, and humor to striptease. Neo-burlesque performers strut their stuff in front of audiences that appreciate their playful brand of pro-sex, often gender-bending, feminism. ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781894212373Author Julia PaoliFormat PaperbackPage Count 68Imprint Power PlantPublisher Power Plant

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780934324724Author Jason DodgeFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Aspen Art Museum,USPublisher Aspen Art Museum,US

Creating Solo Performance is an innovative toolbox of exercises and challenges focused on providing you - the performer - with engaging and inspiring ways to explore and develop your idea both on the page and in the performance space. The creation of a...

This book is unashamedly aimed at a wider market than the ordinary academic volume, as it seeks to extend the impact of the research it contains, making it available to the worldwide community of Burns enthusiasts, without compromising on scholarship...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783903131484Author Christoph SchlingensiefFormat PaperbackPage Count 370Imprint VFMKPublisher VFMK

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783903796126Author Lorenzo De ChiffreFormat HardbackPage Count 120Imprint Verlag Fur Moderne KunstPublisher Verlag Fur Moderne KunstWeight(grams) 292g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781608012138Author Wilfried RaussertFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint University of New Orleans PressPublisher University of New Orleans...

The Twenty-First Century Performance Reader combines extracts from over 70 international practitioners, companies, collectives and makers from the fields of Dance, Theatre, Music, Live and Performance Art, and Activism to form an essential sourcebook for...