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Book Synopsis
Features more than 100 performance artists' interviews that highlight complex issues in performance art, including the role of identity in performer-audience relationships and art as an exploration of everyday conventions rather than a demonstration of virtuosity.

Table of Contents
Preface by Linda M. Montano
Introduction: Shall We Talk? Linda M. Montano Performs
Autobiographical Voices, by Angelika Festa

PART ONE sex
Introduction by Christine Tamblyn
Vito Acconci
Philip Corner
Paul Cotton
Karen Finley
Vanalyne Green
Lynn Hershman
Dick Higgins
Laurel Klick
Steven Kolpan
Jill Kroesen
Robert Kushner
Minnette Lehmann
Lydia Lunch
Paul McCarthy
Tim Miller
Frank Moore and Linda Mac
Vernita Nemec
Pat Oleszko
Carolee Schneemann
Barbara Smith
Annie Sprinkle and Veronica Vera
Hannah Wilke

PART TWO food
Introduction by Moira Roth
Jerri Allyn
Nancy Barber
John Cage
Angelika Festa
Howard Fried
Joan Jonas
Alison Knowles
Leslie Labowitz
Suzanne Lacy
Les Levine
Antoni Miralda
Susan Mogul
Faith Ringgold
Rachel Rosenthal
Martha Rosler
Richard Schechner
Bonnie Sherk
Stuart Sherman
Anne Tardos and Jackson Mac Low

PART THREE money/fame
Introduction by Laura Cottingham
Eleanor Antin
Robert Ashley
Bob and Bob
Eric Bogosian
Nancy Buchanan
Linda Frye Burnham
Papo Colo
Lowell Darling
Steven Durland
Simone Forti
Mel Henderson
Julia Heyward
Mikhail Horowitz
Allan Kaprow
Tom Marioni
Meredith Monk
Jim Pomeroy
Willoughby Sharp
Michael Smith
Martin Von Haselberg
Martha Wilson

PART FOUR ritual/death
Introduction by Lucy R. Lippard
Marina Abramovicˇ and Ulay
Helene Aylon
Chris Burden
John Cage
Ping Chong
George Coates
Betsy Damon
Terry Fox
Cheri Gaulke
Alex Grey
Deborah Hay
Geoffrey Hendricks
Donna Henes
Kim Jones
Alistair MacLennan
Ann Magnuson
Ruth Maleczech
Paul McMahon
Ana Mendieta
Hermann Nitsch
Lorraine O’Grady
Morgan O’Hara
Pauline Oliveros
Adrian Piper
Jerome Rothenberg
Brian Routh
Robert Schuler
Theodora Skipitares
Stelarc
Elaine Summers
Fiona Templeton
Mierle Laderman Ukeles
William Wegman
Paul Zaloom
Ellen Zweig
Afterword: Quicksilver and Revelations: Performance Art at the End of the Twentieth Century, by Kristine Stiles
Biographies
Index

Performance Artists Talking in the Eighties

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    Publisher: University of California Press
    Publication Date: 25/01/2001
    ISBN13: 9780520210226, 978-0520210226
    ISBN10: 0520210220
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    Description

    Book Synopsis
    Features more than 100 performance artists' interviews that highlight complex issues in performance art, including the role of identity in performer-audience relationships and art as an exploration of everyday conventions rather than a demonstration of virtuosity.

    Table of Contents
    Preface by Linda M. Montano
    Introduction: Shall We Talk? Linda M. Montano Performs
    Autobiographical Voices, by Angelika Festa

    PART ONE sex
    Introduction by Christine Tamblyn
    Vito Acconci
    Philip Corner
    Paul Cotton
    Karen Finley
    Vanalyne Green
    Lynn Hershman
    Dick Higgins
    Laurel Klick
    Steven Kolpan
    Jill Kroesen
    Robert Kushner
    Minnette Lehmann
    Lydia Lunch
    Paul McCarthy
    Tim Miller
    Frank Moore and Linda Mac
    Vernita Nemec
    Pat Oleszko
    Carolee Schneemann
    Barbara Smith
    Annie Sprinkle and Veronica Vera
    Hannah Wilke

    PART TWO food
    Introduction by Moira Roth
    Jerri Allyn
    Nancy Barber
    John Cage
    Angelika Festa
    Howard Fried
    Joan Jonas
    Alison Knowles
    Leslie Labowitz
    Suzanne Lacy
    Les Levine
    Antoni Miralda
    Susan Mogul
    Faith Ringgold
    Rachel Rosenthal
    Martha Rosler
    Richard Schechner
    Bonnie Sherk
    Stuart Sherman
    Anne Tardos and Jackson Mac Low

    PART THREE money/fame
    Introduction by Laura Cottingham
    Eleanor Antin
    Robert Ashley
    Bob and Bob
    Eric Bogosian
    Nancy Buchanan
    Linda Frye Burnham
    Papo Colo
    Lowell Darling
    Steven Durland
    Simone Forti
    Mel Henderson
    Julia Heyward
    Mikhail Horowitz
    Allan Kaprow
    Tom Marioni
    Meredith Monk
    Jim Pomeroy
    Willoughby Sharp
    Michael Smith
    Martin Von Haselberg
    Martha Wilson

    PART FOUR ritual/death
    Introduction by Lucy R. Lippard
    Marina Abramovicˇ and Ulay
    Helene Aylon
    Chris Burden
    John Cage
    Ping Chong
    George Coates
    Betsy Damon
    Terry Fox
    Cheri Gaulke
    Alex Grey
    Deborah Hay
    Geoffrey Hendricks
    Donna Henes
    Kim Jones
    Alistair MacLennan
    Ann Magnuson
    Ruth Maleczech
    Paul McMahon
    Ana Mendieta
    Hermann Nitsch
    Lorraine O’Grady
    Morgan O’Hara
    Pauline Oliveros
    Adrian Piper
    Jerome Rothenberg
    Brian Routh
    Robert Schuler
    Theodora Skipitares
    Stelarc
    Elaine Summers
    Fiona Templeton
    Mierle Laderman Ukeles
    William Wegman
    Paul Zaloom
    Ellen Zweig
    Afterword: Quicksilver and Revelations: Performance Art at the End of the Twentieth Century, by Kristine Stiles
    Biographies
    Index

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