Performance

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...

Want to learn valuable secrets about making your own low-budget films? This book is at once Tori and Matthew Butler-Hart's personal account of their ten-year adventure running their own film production company and a manual loaded with tips on how to...

In !Presente! Diana Taylor asks what it means to be physically and politically present in situations where it seems that nothing can be done. As much an act, a word, an attitude, a theoretical intervention, and a performance pedagogy, Taylor maps...

"Art as Social Action . . . is an essential guide to deepening social art practices and teaching them to students." -Laura Raicovich, president and executive director, Queens MuseumArt as Social Action is both a general introduction to and an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788869773365Author Shaun GallagherFormat PaperbackPage Count 162Imprint Mimesis InternationalPublisher Mimesis International

Performance Art in practice - pedagogical approaches opens up a variety of philosophies that explore, explain and challenge Performance art and introduces a range of practices used in higher level education. The book is a collection of nine...

12 contemporary approaches to the human body that are being used by performers or in the context of performance training. The second in a series of books entitled: Ways of Being a Body. Following on from Sandra Reeve's Nine Ways of Seeing a Body (which...

In (toward) a phenomenology of acting, Phillip Zarrilli considers acting as a 'question' to be explored in the studio and then reflected upon.This book is a vital response to Jerzy Grotowski's essential question: "How does the actor 'touch that which is...

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

Marina Abramovic is the creator of pioneering performance art which transcends the form's provocative origins. Her visceral and extreme performances have tested the limits of both body and mind, communicating with audiences worldwide on a personal and...

Over a distinguished career in cultural leadership, management and journalism spanning almost 30 years, John Tusa has amassed a unique experience of the arts world, the political controversies it faces and the battles it continues to fight. His new book...

Phil Smith (Crabman/Mythogeography) and Tony Whitehead join forces with master photographer John Schott to lead readers on a `virtual' journey to explore difference and change on their way to an unknown destination. "What is most real is what you...

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

Dracula and Frankenstein: Two Horror Plays brings together two classic horror tales updated for the 21st century and adapted for the stage by two of Britain's leading playwrights. Bram Stoker's Dracula adapted by Bryony Lavery: This is the modern...

Winner of Best Performance Design and Scenography Publication Award, Prague Quadrennial 2019 This beautifully illustrated book conveys the centrality of costume to live performance. Finding associations between contemporary practices and historical...

Glorious catastrophe presents a detailed critical analysis of the work of Jack Smith from the early 1960s until his AIDS-related death in 1989. Dominic Johnson argues that Smith's work offers critical strategies for rethinking art's histories after 1960...

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...

Liveness is a pivotal issue for performance theorists and artists. As live art covers both embodiment and disembodiment, many scholars have emphasized the former and interpreted the latter as the opposite side of liveness. In this book, the author...

Live Art in LA: Performance Art in Southern California , 1970-1983 documents and critically examines one of the most fecund periods in the history of live art. The book forms part of the Getty Institute's Pacific Standard Time initiative - a series of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783942214100Author Vujanovic CvejicFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Bbooks VerlagPublisher Bbooks Verlag

What does artistic resistance look like in the twenty-first century, when disruption and dissent have been co-opted and commodified in ways that reinforce dominant systems? In The Play in the System Anna Watkins Fisher locates the possibility for...

An aesthetic and social history of art and dance in mid-20th-century New York interpreted by contemporary artist Nick Mauss Over the past decade, Nick Mauss (b. 1980) has pursued a hybrid mode of working that melds the roles of curator, artist, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262044844Author Marko IlicFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

Notorious for his continually subversive takes on classical dance, Michael Clark is without doubt one of the most important dancers and choreographers of our time. He has created some of contemporary dance's finest productions, often using leftfield rock...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781633450639Author Ana JanevskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Museum of Modern ArtPublisher Museum of Modern ArtWeight(grams) 700g

Hundreds of years of ridicule, persecution, erasure, misunderstanding, and institutionalization could put anyone in a bad mood. Killjoy invites you into her kastle for a queer exorcism and celebration of the past.Lesbian feminist histories can have a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781662914218Author Ronald TracyFormat PaperbackPage Count 294Imprint Gatekeeper PressPublisher Gatekeeper PressWeight(grams) 395gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781633851610Author Edward BanchsFormat PaperbackPage Count 392Imprint Word Association PublishersPublisher Word Association PublishersWeight(grams)...

In this updated second edition, Jason Farman offers a groundbreaking look at how location-aware mobile technologies are radically shifting our sense of identity, community, and place-making practices. Mobile Interface Theory is a foundational book in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999616406Author Marth MunroFormat PaperbackPage Count 362Imprint Lessac Training and Research InstitutePublisher Lessac Training and Research...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995481404Author Nina FeldmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 70Imprint nfc booksPublisher nfc books

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262546508Author Steve BenfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 369g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648599814Author Paul Michael DaviesFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint Gondwana PressPublisher Gondwana PressWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648599821Author Paul Michael DaviesFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Paul M DaviesPublisher Paul M DaviesWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Heinrich Schenker's The Art of Performance shows this great music theorist in a new light. While his theoretical writings helped transform music theory in the twentieth century, this book draws on his experience as a musician and teacher to propose a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781947322141Author Dorothy DubruleFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Insert Blanc PressPublisher Insert Blanc PressWeight(grams) 254g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781932086423Author Walt AnthonyFormat HardbackPage Count 280Imprint Walt AnthonyPublisher Walt AnthonyWeight(grams) 703g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798986277202Author Bruce Charlie JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 590Imprint Charlie's Creative ComedyPublisher Charlie's Creative ComedyWeight(grams)...