''Precarious Forms: Performing Utopia in the Neoliberal Americas explores how performance art and poetry convey utopian desires even in the bleakest of times. Candice Amich argues that utopian longing in the neoliberal Americas paradoxically arises from the material conditions o…
"Precarious Forms: Performing Utopia in the Neoliberal Americas explores how performance art and poetry transmit utopian desires, even in the bleakest of times. Candice Amich argues that utopian longing in the neoliberal Americas paradoxically arises from the material conditions…
This is the key introductory text to all types of performance with extracts from 50 practitioners, critics and theorists from the fields of dance, drama, music, theatre and live art.
This edited collection focuses on performance practice and analysis that engages with medical and biomedical sciences. After locating the "Biologization" of theatre at the turn of the twentieth century, it examines a range of contemporary practices that respond to understandings…
Opere delle artiste: H. Almeida, E. Antin, R. Bertlmann, V. Export, B. Jurgenssen, K. La Rocca, S. Lacy, L. Labowitz, S. Lake, A. Mendieta, M. Rosler, C. Sherman, A. Soltau, H. Wilke, M. Wilson, F. Woodman.
The Crimean peninsula in the Black Sea, rich in history and charm, is of great geostrategic importance. This leads to political conflicts time and again. But what is everyday life like in Crimea beyond the discourses about law, borders and war? What do local intellectuals think …
The improvisation studies reader: spontaneous acts
"Carolee Schneemann is one of the pioneers of performance, installation, and video art. Although other visual artists, such as Salvador Dali and Yves Klein, have used live self-portraiture and performance as a vehicle for public provocation, Schneemann was among the first to use…
Entanglements of two: a series of duets
Drawing out the particularities of working in twos, with a focus on collaborative performance making, this book considers the duet as a particular configuration in which to think, the duo a microcosm of humankind, and presents everyday entanglement of form and practice seen thro…