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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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