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Book SynopsisA marginal artistic pursuit by choice as well as necessity, performance art has flourished in and about 'multicentric' Los Angeles, finding its centers of activity, moving and changing as the margins have reconstituted themselves. This work describes performance art as an intermedia visual art form that uses theatrical elements in presentation.
Trade Review"Will be a 'must read' for anyone studying performance art or the art and culture of Southern California.... Cheng is a brilliant and original thinker and...writes with a lively, engaged and engaging poetic style through which she attempts to enact the very passion and performativity that she explores in her objects of study."-Amelia Jones, author of Body Art/Performing the Subject; "Dazzling on many levels, a major contribution not only to performance art scholarship but more generally to contemporary American art, feminist, and cultural studies.... In Other Los Angeleses is going to transform performance studies because of the richness of Cheng's facts and scholarship and the equal richness of her theoretical frameworks and references."-Moira Roth, author of Difference indifference
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments 1. Inscribing Multicentricity: Performing Other Los Angeleses 2. Out of Order: Reading, Writing, Performing (in) L.A. 3 Engendering Other/Selves: Suzanne Lacy 4. Elia Arce: A Skin Test and a Tongue Transplant 5. A Hetero-locus in Process: Self Performances at Highways 6. What's in a Name?: Marking Sacred Naked Nature Girls 7. Kinesthetic Transmutation of Theatricality: Consuming Art Performances Epilogue Notes Index
