{"title":"Performance art Books","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"love-from-the-pink-palace-9781472288462","title":"Love from the Pink Palace","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e*SHORTLISTED FOR THE RSL CHRISTOPHER BLAND  PRIZE 2023*\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e*SHORTLISTED FOR THE POLARI FIRST BOOK PRIZE 2023*\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''I read the book in one go. I laughed and cried like a baby, and was transported back to a time of innocence, clouded by the enormity of the harsh reality . . . Just amazing'' CATHERINE ZETA JONES\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''As it happens, I was also a Jill in the eighties - but not half as good a Jill as real Jill'' DAWN FRENCH\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''Jill met the crisis head on . . . She held the hands of so many men. 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Twentieth-century excursions include the Soviet circus, Chinese performers, Fellini’s fascination with circus through cinema, and circus arts schools of today ... [This] brilliant volume (rendered at times poetic by Augusta Dörr’s translation from French) will be appreciated by all, regardless of their background. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All readers. * CHOICE *\u003cbr\u003eThe book is a wonderful romp through to the present day, richly illustrated with artworks, photographs, prints and posters, showing how this very particular form of entertainment continues to evolve. * Evening Standard *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Circus: A Visual History \u003c\/i\u003eis 'one to watch' in August 2018 * The Guardian *\u003cbr\u003eThe book is a beautiful object, brimming with archive images from the Bibliothèque nationale, it paints a world drenched in colours and filled with flying trapezes, leaping tigers and sumptuous costumes. Jacob's choice of illustrations proves that circus is above everything a visual art that constantly draws on tradition to reinvent itself... the book is a stunning and essential visual resource for anyone interested in the evolution of Western circus. * Times Literary Supplement *\u003cbr\u003eA distinguished circus promoter and cultural historian, Jacob has donated his vast private collection to the French National Library. Most of the illustrations in this beautiful book — vibrant posters, architectural drawings of circus buildings and group photographic portraits of performers — come from there ... [Jacob] herds his facts like a ringmaster in a series of fabulous stories loosely held together by the arresting and colourful images. * The Spectator *\u003cbr\u003eSpectators seated in circles stare up at trapeze artists who, as Pascal Jacob puts it in his new book, \u003ci\u003eThe Circus: A Visual History\u003c\/i\u003e, re-enact the mythical flight of Icarus and hope to demonstrate that grounded human beings can enjoy the aerodynamic privileges of the gods. * The Observer *\u003cbr\u003eStunning circus sights: Tom King recommend a visual history of one of the oldest forms of entertainment… a hefty and vibrant collection of images depicting the age-old spectacle… Immediately apparent in Jacob’s book is that the circus has been infinitely adaptable, with space in its cavernous tent for an endless variety of people. * The Morning Star *\u003cbr\u003eThis book tells the story of both traditions, and it does so in impressive detail and with an infectious sense of fun. Examples tumble over each other like acrobats; big ideas are paraded around like elephants. * V\u0026amp;A Magazine *\u003cbr\u003eA rich, visual feast of archival wonders. Prepare to be amazed by this impressive performance history. * National Fairground and Circus Archive *\u003cbr\u003eThe book has a 'mosaic effect', which Jacob also identifies as the defining trait of a circus performance. He herds his facts like a ringmaster in a series of fabulous stories loosely held together by the arresting and colourful images. * Oldie Magazine *\u003cbr\u003eAn important and compelling tale of the international history of the circus, full of enchanting images and wonderful stories. * Professor Vanessa Toulmin, University of Sheffield, UK *\u003cbr\u003eWith circus arts thriving and evolving internationally, the English-language publication of Jacob’s magnificent, authoritative survey is cause for celebration. * Dr Rolf Hughes, Newcastle University, UK *\u003cbr\u003eThis book tells the story of both traditions [permanent and travelling circuses], and it does so in impressive detail and with an infectious sense of fun... [Jacob offers] an evocative account of a popular art form that has an unmatched ability to snag in our senses. * Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, Professor of English Literature at Magdalen College, University of Oxford, UK *\u003cbr\u003eAre you looking for a Christmas present for yourself or a loved one? Look no further... it is without doubt one of the best of the new publications worldwide to celebrate [the 250th anniversary of the modern circus]. The author... is a renowned circus expert, famous for his collaborative work with the Big Apple Circus of New York, the mighty Ringling Bros, Barnum and Bailey Circus and the French circus company Cirque Phenix... the book is printed on fine paper with exemplary hard overs and its 240 pages are jam-packed with circus history from around the world, along with a wealth of over 200 fine illustrations... Visually it is a sheer delight, and Augusta Dorr's translation into English from the original French is excellent... This is a formidable volume, well-worthy of your Christmas stocking wishlist. * Don Stacey, King Pole magazine (December 2018) *\u003cbr\u003eThe magic of the circus is captured in this stunning book, along with its evolution from the 13th century to present day Cultural historian Pascal Jacob has plundered the French National Library's archives to collate more than 200 artworks which chart a story of travelling entertainers, jugglers, acrobats, nomadic animal tamers and the iconic clown. 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The book successfully provokes a scholarly conversation that makes a marked departure from the kind of how-to book or fashion history that tends to dominate the shelves ... [It] ... explores interdisciplinary theoretical territory and makes broader arguments about the function of costume within a variety of performance genres, time-periods, and sociopolitical contexts. * Theatre Topics *\u003cbr\u003eThis richly illustrated book presents a range of lenses for the study of costume for performance. The ambitious breadth of topics and periods covered [gives] a tantalising taste of interdisciplinary theories and methods ... This ambitious work is a significant step forward in this emerging field and offers a beautifully illustrated introduction to a wide range of theories and methods for analysing costume for performance. It is an important book for students and scholars in this field. * The Journal of Dress History *\u003cbr\u003eBarbieri (London College of Fashion, UK) offers a refreshing look at costumes and their use throughout history in creation, use, and affect in the development of live performance. The author finds connections between contemporary work and historical costume in pageantry, theater, and dance. Six chapters take up a wide variety of topics, exploring for example the transformative ritual of costume, costuming of choruses, the grotesque “Other” body, flying technology and costume, and costume in the present representing the past. Chapter 5, contributed by Trimingham (drama and theater, Univ. of Kent, UK), offers a compelling look at the effective power of costume as art. This well-written, beautifully illustrated book brings to light the importance of costume to live performance in terms of its preparation and presentation. Drawing examples from ancient Greece as well as a wide variety of European theater, from medieval theater to more contemporary and experimental productions, this book is sure to become required reading for students and scholars of costume design and history. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals, including students in technical programs. * CHOICE *\u003cbr\u003eThis is essential reading for anyone interested in performance and costumes, providing an exciting and accessible scholarly exploration of the uses and significance of costumes from prehistoric ritual to contemporary theater. It is valuable for its international range of productions and detailed descriptions of significant costumes, including dance, circus performance, street theater and traditional stage. -- Patricia Lennox, New York University, USA\u003cbr\u003eDonatella Barbieri has crafted a unique and intriguing way of looking at the history of costumes for performance. Drawing on case studies and in-depth analysis of performance costume, this book is a marvelous addition for researchers in the costume discipline. -- Colleen Muscha, School of Theatre, College of Fine Arts, Florida State University, USA\u003cbr\u003eThis poetic work is a tour de force of lively research and imagination. Charting the transformation of performance costume across time, space and material, Barbieri, with Trimigham, takes us from the Ancient Greek chorus to modern trapeze artists, revealing how costume creates new thresholds of human experience. -- Peter McNeil, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia\u003cbr\u003eWith compelling scholarship and great artistic sensitivity, Barbieri deftly explores the cultural, societal and creative agency of the costumed and performing body. In tracing the complex artistic, historical and cultural journey from every day clothing through the designer to the cutting table to the stage costume, this magnificently illustrated book makes an absolutely essential contribution to our understanding of scenography. -- Christopher Baugh, University of Leeds, UK\u003cbr\u003eDonatella Barbieri’s own breadth of skills as a passionate lecturer, an inspiring teacher and a practitioner are all evident in this wonderful and uncompromising new book. Through the agility of her themes and connections from paleolithic cave painting to the most recent performances or archival discoveries, she never loses sight of the metamorphic power of costume. 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As much an act, a word, an attitude, a theoretical intervention, and a performance pedagogy, Taylor maps ¡presente! at work in scenarios ranging from conquest, through colonial enactments and resistance movements, to present moments of capitalist extractivism and forced migration in the Americas. ¡Presente!—present among, with, and to; a walking and talking with others; an ontological and epistemic reflection on presence and subjectivity as participatory and relational, founded on mutual recognition—requires rethinking and unlearning in ways that challenge colonial epistemologies. 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It offers a wide range of creative prompts and pathways enriched with critical thinking tools and questions, a hybrid approach Hill and Paris call ‘Curious Methods’.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eThis is a welcome addition to the field, created and curated by two experienced artists who have operated at the international interface of academia and professional practice for over three decades.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eThe collection is packed with fun, creative, thoughtful exercises distilled from over twenty years of running interdisciplinary artist workshops and teaching both devising and performance making. 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The exercises are carefully described so that they can easily be tested out by readers, and are well contextualized in relation to vivid examples from contemporary performance practice and relevant political contexts. This compelling approach goes beyond many other books on theatre devising, which merely provide performance recipes; they do so by repeatedly highlighting the vital cultural relevance and potential personal impact of the experiments that they invite us to undertake.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eThe primary audience for this important new book will be academics, instructors and students in courses on devised theatre, improvisation, performance art, experimental performance and practice-based research. It will be essential for classroom use, for students of theatre and performance and live art – undergraduate, postgraduate and Ph.D., teachers and all those needing strategies for getting started.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eIt will also appeal to readers from the broader arts, humanities and social sciences who are seeking resources for integrating creative methods into their research.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'Curious’s methods are at once tender, lyrical, soul-stirring, and politically charged. To practise their methods with them is joyous and inspiring.'\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e -- Jen Harvie, Queen Mary University of London\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'For the student\/teacher\/creator of performance practice, this work is a gift from the gods. The original gods - the muses - where creation takes shape from within the body and the body politic (the necessary “I” and “we” of it). If you imagine you don’t need this book, you especially need this book. The very reading of this text brings the reader’s body into being and we are suddenly prompted to get up and create in response. The best advice: “Start with a question.” This, the first step, in the journey of original work that Paris and Hill invite us to return to with every new day as artists and scholars; and, they have created a compelling cartography of design to guide us along the way. 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Hill and Paris help you find what you need all along the way.'\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e -- Rebecca Schneider, Brown University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'This is an essential resource for both artists and scholars and I can't think of anyone better placed to make this offering than Helen and Leslie and their incurably curious minds.'\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e -- Lois Weaver, Artist, Activist, Split Britches\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'Curious Methods offers an invaluable resource that brings insights, at once practical and profound, into methods of performance making. The pragmatic wisdom that illumines this book is vital for anyone making creative work, from the beginner amateur to the seasoned professional. The thoughtful and meditative quality of these exercises will enrich not only your creative work, it will also attune you to glimmers of everyday redemption and enable you to cultivate a joyful ethic of practice.'\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e -- Jisha Menon, Stanford University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'This inspiring, energizing, and curiosity-inducing collection of exercises, lessons, and prompts will activate performance-based artists at all levels. Whether building a daily creative practice or making a performance, readers of Curious Methods will quickly become participants in Hill and Paris’ generous and generative project.'\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e -- Stacy Wolf, Princeton University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'One of the most compelling aspects of the book is Hill and Paris’s offer of “companionship” - encouragement to test out, to dream, to fail spectacularly, to seek out and be receptive to deeply personal discoveries with these generous, vibrant, and compassionate artists.'\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e -- Laura Levin, York University, Toronto\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'This beautifully executed and crafted book is the ideal companion for anyone working in the field of contemporary performance and theatre-making. This is a very generous offering of a resourceful and inventive toolbox from one of the most prominent performance duos working in Live Art. I can very easily imagine delving into it on a regular basis to feed my practical pedagogy as well as my own creative processes.'\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e -- Chloé Déchery, University of Paris 8, France\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'What a gorgeously tasty, seductive, and inventive set of invitations to create new performance fill this remarkable book. The \"curious methods\" of Leslie Hill and Helen Paris help us follow our noses into the myth and memory that live loud in devised work. An invaluable user's manual for being human!'\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e -- Tim Miller, solo performer and author of A Body in the O\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Illustrations\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e1.         Curious Methods\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e2.         Pep Talk\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eDaily Practice\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eOutfoxing the Censor\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eFreewriting\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eA Time and a Place \u003cbr\u003e  Failing Better\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e3.         Working from the Body\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eArrivals and Departures \u003cbr\u003e  Begin Again\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eTongue-Tied\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eBody Map\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eBody Memory\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eInvisible \u003cbr\u003e  The Sense of Smell\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eHomesick\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eOlfactory Portraits\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eFight Flight Freeze\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eGut Feelings\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eSecret Duets\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eInheritance Tracks\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eFamily Traits and Mannerisms\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003ePersona\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eWalk This Way\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eBuilding a Persona\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e4.         Working with Objects\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eTactile Memory\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eExquisite and Mundane\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eInherited Objects\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eBox Stories\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e‘The Lovers’\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eSuitcase\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e5.         Working with Site\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eGive and Take\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eGhost Library\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eGhost Duets\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eIn Search of a Gesture\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eYou Are Here \u003cbr\u003e  Map Making, Three Ways\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eBlurring Time and Place\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eThings ain’t what they used to be\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eBest Foot Forward\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eMarks and Scars\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eDancing Place and Space\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003ePrivate, Keep Out!\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eTaking Up Residence\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eInfinitesimal Detail\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eFifteen Quick Freewrites on Place\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eAutotopographically Speaking\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eSilent Stroll\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eClosing Thoughts\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e6.         Working with Pairings\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eFailure \u0026amp; Text\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eDesire \u0026amp; Proximity \u003cbr\u003e  Ritual \u0026amp; Object\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e7.         Activism\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eManifestos\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eImpulse Manifesto\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eMake Manifest\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eLending and Borrowing\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eSigns\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eWear Your Heart on Your Sleeve\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eOn Location\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eStand Up, Speak Out\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eLiving Newspaper\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eRipped from the Headlines\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eRe-Enactment\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eChoose Your Battles\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eVerbatim Theatre\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eExplosive Material – a Journalistic Exercise\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eExplosive Compounds – an Ethnographic Exercise\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eOne-Minute Plays\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eMix Tape\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eProduce, Adapt or Devise?\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eA Moment in History\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eCross That Line\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eClosed Border\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eOpen Border\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eTactical Toolkit\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eMake a Spectacle\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eReflections\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e8.         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Jacki Apple’s \u003cem\u003ePerformance \/ Media \/ Art \/ Culture\u003c\/em\u003e traces performance art, multimedia theatre, audio arts and dance in the United States from 1983 to the present. Showcasing 35 years of Apple’s critical essays and reviews, the collection explores the rise and diversification of intermedia performance; how new technologies (or rehashed old technologies) influence American culture and contemporary life; the interdependence of pop and performance culture; and the politics of art and the performance of politics.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Apple writes with a journalist’s attention to the immediacy of account and a historian’s attention to structural aesthetic and personal networks, resulting in a volume brimming with big ideas but grounded in concentrated reviews of individual performances. Many of the pieces featured in this collection originally appeared in small press journals and magazines that have now gone out of print. Preserved and republished here for current and future readers, they offer a rich portrait of performance at the end of the millennium.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'This book is a stunning piece of scholarship, authorship, curation, and artistry. A potent historical record of performance art, it would serve well as a primer for any scholar, artist, or upper-level\/graduate course interested in learning this history from a primary source. At the same time, the essays combine to become an inspiring call-to-action for experimental art-making. I frequently found myself wanting to know Apple and LaPalma’s current thoughts on the questions they raise, but the book’s true gift is the space they allow for the essays to question each other. Through their tremendous restraint in not adding additional comment, they invite readers to explore their own curiosity about performance, performance art, or whatever term comes next.'\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e -- Daniel Bird Tobin, Ecumenica: Performance and Religion\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'[Apple] seems to have done more thinking and writing about this unstable and hard-to-contain genre than anyone else on the West Coast. [...] As a chronicle of 35-plus years of avant-garde ‘barricadesmanship’ in Los Angeles, Performance \/ Media \/ Art \/ Culture preserves an atmosphere of politico-aesthetic urgency, which can give the reader the off-kilter feeling that art ‘spaces’ surely are the place where ‘the world’ gets changed. [...] It’s a valuable history of some very untamed goings-on over time, and a detailed chronicle of what can happen when art turns into agitprop ruled by committee. One has the feeling that Jacki Apple’s influence extends to many an arts professor and art performer working today; this book ensures that and also shows why. It will have a long shelf life in academic and art libraries.'\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e -- Anthony Mostrom, Los Angeles Review of Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'Only a handful of writers have the intellectual chops, creative intuition and vision of art history to speak holistically about performance art, but Jacki Apple consistently proves herself essential to the field and how we understand it. She digs into both the formal and the ineffable dimensions of performance with unmatched power and clarity without sacrificing honesty about the art and artists she clearly loves. Jacki stands in the evolving vortex of performance art so we can see its future.'\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e -- Eric Gutierrez, Writer\/former Executive Editor, High Performance\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'In the late 1980s and early '90s, Jacki Apple's pioneering essays on radio art as an emerging practice in the U.S. stood tall. Hardly any other writers publishing texts on radio, came from an arts background let alone an interdisciplinary one. Apple did, and her voice spoke with unprecedented insight, intellectual rigour, clarity and passionate conviction on the subject. She discussed and critiqued the most innovative and inspiring art works for broadcast in the context of the politics of the industry and of contemporary American culture. This wonderful edition encompasses the full range of her critical writings.'\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e -- Regine Beyer, writer\/radio producer and editor, Germany-USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'For several decades now, Jacki Apple's astute observations of the arts,\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cem\u003eperformance and culture in Los Angeles have added profound insight to this still\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cem\u003eburgeoning landscape populated by the movers and shakers who flock here. Her\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cem\u003ehistory as an artist in her own right expands the depth and comprehension of her\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cem\u003eanalysis. She has been an influencer in the truest sense, advancing the cultural\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cem\u003ediscussion with erudition and compassion. Among the annals of tomes\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cem\u003ededicated to understanding why LA is so significant, so centripetal, this is a long-\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cem\u003eawaited addition.'\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e -- Tony Abatemarco, Playwright, Performer, Co-Artistic Director - Skylight Theatre Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'Writing with deep historical knowledge, compassion and generosity, Jacki Apple\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cem\u003eis an artists’ critic, always seeking first to reveal and then to celebrate the heart of\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cem\u003ea performance, no matter what the medium. Her fearless radicalism, tempered by\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cem\u003ea refreshing sense of humour, uncovers buried roots while also posing the most\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cem\u003eessential cultural question: how does this art help us understand who we are? I\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cem\u003eam particularly enthralled by the final section, Concerning Nature, essential\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cem\u003ereading during a time when ecocidal capitalism has surely reached the breaking\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cem\u003epoint.'\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e -- Gregory Whitehead, Artist\/writer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Jacki Apple’s writing about the temporal arts stuns the reader with its capacity\u003cbr\u003e to contextualise projects historically. She weaves together diverse cultural\u003cbr\u003e interventions with an urgency about their meaning for this crucial moment in the\u003cbr\u003e world.'\u003c\/p\u003e -- Beverly Naidus, artist, author, activist and Professor of Interdisciplinary Arts, University of Washington, Tacoma\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'Jacki Apple has always made works that come at you from every possible angle.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cem\u003eAs composer, performer, writer and cultural detective, she is fearless at pushing\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cem\u003ethe boundaries of her own work, while simultaneously providing platforms for\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cem\u003eother artists to push their own possibilities. This book has been brewing for over\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cem\u003e35 years. It is the story of what where when why and how we are in this culture\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cem\u003enow, told by a vital participant and invaluable witness.'\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e -- Terry Allen, Artist 2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'Jacki Apple is a tireless advocate for the aesthetic, the generative, for art that intervenes and illuminates. She is the rare artist who is generous and revelatory,\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cem\u003ebringing enormous skill and knowledge to the work of fellow artists crossing\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cem\u003emany disciplines, as do her own intricate and multifaceted creations.'\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e -- Jeff McMahon, Performer and writer. Associate Professor, Arizona State University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'Jacki Apple has always been a fair and thoughtful advocate of the arts. 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For anyone who wants to understand this history, this book is eye-opening.'\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e -- John Fleck, Performance artist\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'Jacki Apple’s accurate, intimate, gracious, erudite and insightful writing\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cem\u003eprovides a front row seat to an expanding cultural big-bang. This book is a gift to\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cem\u003ethose of us determined to understand the who, the where, the when, the how and\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cem\u003ethe why of the tectonic shifts that brought social interaction into the scope and\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cem\u003einsight of art makers. Her enthusiasm for the subject coupled with a commitment\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cem\u003eto her readers makes for learning more than history. 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