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Book SynopsisThe 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 and its methods of display, representation, and mediation in the wider cultural sphere, the book's chapters identify a marked change in the economies and labor practices surrounding performance art and its institutional curating and presenting practices, reflective of an advanced stage of capitalism that approaches art production in tandem with event production. Embracing what we perceive to be the ''oxymoronic status'' of performance artwhere it is simultaneously precarious and highly profitablethe essays in this book map the myriad gestures and radical possibilit
Table of ContentsList 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
