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How Does Performance Disrupt Institutional Spaces?
(Methuen Drama, 2019-03-21)Written by leading international scholars, each chapter of this volume is built around a key performance example, and detailed discussions introduce the methodologies and theories that help us understand how these performances ... -
Rudimentary Things: Becoming an Object in the Performances of Skip Arnold
Skip Arnold’s performances consist of an attempt to become an object, typically by way of a singular action repeated or sustained over a difficult duration. As such, in actions since the early 1980s, he has created bluntly ... -
Impossible Things: The Life Art of Anne Bean in the 1970s
(Intellect (UK), 2018-09-15)Anne Bean: Self Etc. is the first major monograph about the performance work of artist Anne Bean, a noted international figure who has been working actively since the 1960s. -
Dead Star Mileage: Jack Smith’s Fandom for Maria Montez
(Goldsmiths Press, 2019-12-03)Fandom as Methodology examines fandom as a set of practices for approaching and writing about art. The collection includes experimental texts, autobiography, fiction, and new academic perspectives on fandom in and as art. -
File Under COUM: Art on Trial in Genesis P-Orridge’s Mail Action
(Penn State Press, 2017-12-14)The essays in this collection explore the extraordinarily rich networks of international artists and art practices that emerged in and around London during the 1960s and ’70s, a period that saw an explosion of new media ... -
“Personality Crisis? Honey, I was Born with One”: Lydia Lunch Interviewed
(Repeater, 2016-09-06)Focusing upon the production of post-punk art, film, music, and publishing, this book offers new perspectives on an overlooked period ofcultural activity, and probes the lessons that might be learnt from history for artists ... -
Verbatim practice as research with care-experienced young people: An ‘aesthetics of care’ through aural attention
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Dressing the Law
(Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2018-11-23)Abstract The theatre shares many features with the law. One key commonality is the presence of dressers in both professions. In the law and the theatre, the dresser is a key intermediary in the transformation of bodies and ... -
"A Multi-modal and Durational Praxis of Decolonization": Performance studies in Canada
(University of Toronto Press, 2018-10-30)This review of Performance Studies in Canada edited by Laura Levin and Marlis Schweitzer argues that its most important contributions are the arguments it makes for paying attention to Indigeneity and to decolonizing ... -
Feminisms Now
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Boom! Adversarial Ageism, Chrononormativity, and the Anthropocene
(Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2018-10-10)This article argues that emerging ‘chrononormatives’ of ‘generational warfare’ and ‘ageing crisis’ are culturally damaging and importantly addressed by Split Britches’s Ruff (2013) and Caryl Churchill’s Escaped Alone (2016), ... -
Rev. of Staging Queer Feminisms: Sexuality and Gender in Australian Performance, 2005-2015 by Sarah French
(University of Toronto Press, 2018-08-17)
