Performativity in the Gallery: Staging Interactive Encounters

This book coincides with an increase in the programming of live art elements in many galleries and museums. Traditional art history has, however, been wary of live art's interdisciplinarity and its tendency to encourage increased formal and conceptual risk taking. Time-based performances have challenged the conventions of documentation and the viewer's access to the art experience. This book questions the canon of art history by exploring participation, liveness, interactivity, digital and process-based performative practices and performance for the camera, as presented in gallery spaces. The.

Cover; Contents; Illustrations; Outi Remes Introduction; Part I Art History and its Challenged Position to Performative Encounters; Mary Oliver 1 Lies, Lies, It's All Lies I Tell You!; Pip Laurenson and Vivian van Saaze 2 Collecting Performance-Based Art: New Challenges and Shifting; Maria Chatzichristodoulou [aka Maria X] 3 Exhibiting Performance, Staging Experience; Beryl Graham 4 Histories of Interaction and Participation: Critical Systems from New Media Art; Eva Fotiadi 5 From Event to Archive and to Event Again; Part II From Curator to Viewer.

Kaija Kaitavuori 6 Participation in the Gallery: (Re)negotiating ContractsAmy Mechowski 7 Playing Ball: Friday Late, Performativity and the Victoria and Albert Museum; Lee Campbell 8 Heckler, Performance, Participation and Politeness: Using Performance Art as a Tool; Leah Lovett 9 Crowd Control: Encountering Art's Audiences; Part III Curating Participation in the Gallery: Case Studies; Outi Remes and Cally Trench 10 At Play: Curatorial Notes about Playfulness; Sophia Yadong Hao 11 Attending the Gallery; Helen Sloan 12 Like Shadows: A Celebration of Shyness.

Claudia Marion Stemberger 13 South African Live Art and the Representation of …