The Methuen Drama Companion to Performance Art

Bertie Ferdman, Jovana Stokic (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

320 Seiten

2020
Methuen Drama (Verlag)
978-1-350-05757-9 (ISBN)

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The Methuen Drama Companion to Performance Art offers a comprehensive guide to the major issues and interdisciplinary debates concerning performance in art contexts that have developed over the last decade. It understands performance art as an institutional, cultural, and economic phenomenon rather than as a label or object. Following the ever-increasing institutionalization and mainstreaming of performance, the book’s chapters identify a marked change in the economies and labor practices surrounding performance art, and explore how this development is reflective of capitalist approaches to art and event production. Embracing what we perceive to be the 'oxymoronic status' of performance art—where it is simultaneously precarious and highly profitable—the essays in this book map the myriad gestures and radical possibilities of this extreme contradiction.

This Companion adopts an interdisciplinary perspective to present performance art’s legacies and its current practices. It brings together specially commissioned essays from leading innovative scholars from a wide range of approaches including art history, visual and performance studies, dance and theatre scholarship in order to provide a comprehensive and multifocal overview of the emerging research trends and methodologies devoted to performance art.

Bertie Ferdman is an associate professor at Borough Manhattan Community College at the City University of New York, USA. She is the author of Off Sites: Contemporary Performance beyond Site Specific (2018) and is co-editor of a Special Issue of Theater titled Performance Curators. Jovana Stokic is a Belgrade-born, New York-based art historian and curator. She is currently on the faculty of the MFA Art Practice, School of Visual Arts, New York, and New York University Steinhardt Department of Art and Art Professions. She holds a PhD from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University.

List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgements

Part I – Introduction

Squaring Performance Art
Bertie Ferdman (City University of New York, USA) and Jovana Stokic (New York University, USA)

Part II – Issues and Problems: Future Directions in Performance Art Research

Reruns or New Turns
Jovana Stokic (New York University, USA)

Cross-disciplinarity and Antitheatrical Historiographies of Performance Art
Bertie Ferdman (City University of New York, USA)

Part III – Essays

1. How Performance Art Makes History: Artists’ Auto-histories of Happenings and Fluxus in the 1960s
Heike Roms (University of Exeter, UK)

2. Queer Performativity: A Critical Genealogy of a Politics of Doing in Art Practice
Amelia Jones (University of Southern California, USA)

3. Taking Up Instructions for Becoming
Rebecca Schneider (Brown University, USA)

4. Caring for Black Corporealities: Experimental Black Performance
Thomas deFrantz (Duke University, USA)

5. Between Contemporary Art and Performance: Dramaturgy and Flow
Peter Eckersall (City University of New York, USA)

6. Acting Ethical: Performance Art Goes Public
Malik Gaines (New York University, USA)

7. Compassionate Acts:Performance as Radical Care
Nikki Cesare Schotzko (University of Toronto, Canada)

8. The Labor of the Artist, Feminist Practices, and Troubles with Infrastructure
Bojana Kunst (University Giessen, Germany)

9. Gestural Study
Sven Lütticken (Vrije Universiteit, Netherlands)

10. Stomaching It: Black Performance Art and Penetrating the Inscrutable Body
Danielle Bainbridge (Northwestern, USA)

11. Performative Bodies and Artists/Spectators: The Case of Radical Latina and Latin American Women Artists in Exhibition
Cecilia Fajardo-Hill (Independent Scholar, Venezuela)

12. Framing Live Art
Lois Keidan (Live Art Development Agency, UK)

13. From the Institution of Performance to the Performance of Institutions
Jonah Westerman (State University of New York, USA) and Catherine Wood (Tate Modern, UK)

14. Performance in the Age of the Technosphere
Chris Salter (Concordia University, Canada)

Part IV- Annotated Bibliography and Resources
Eylül Fidan Akinci (Ghent University, Belgium)
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	21.02.2020
Reihe/Serie	Methuen Drama Handbooks
Zusatzinfo	34 bw illus
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	600 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
Themenwelt	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lexikon / Chroniken
ISBN-10	1-350-05757-6 / 1350057576
ISBN-13	978-1-350-05757-9 / 9781350057579
Zustand	Neuware