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Perform, Repeat, Record Live Art in History

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ISBN-10: 1841504890

ISBN-13: 9781841504896

Edition: 2012

Authors: Amelia Jones, Adrian Heathfield

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 Bringing together contributors from dance, theater, visual studies, and art history,Perform, Repeat, Recordaddresses the conundrum of how live art is positioned within history.  Set apart from other art forms in that it may never be performed in precisely the same way twice, ephemeral artwork exists both at the time of its staging and long after in the memories of its spectators and their testimonies, as well as in material objects, visual media, and text, all of which offer new critical possibilities. Among the artists, theorists, and historians who contributed to this volume are Marina Abramovic, Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Rebecca Schneider, Boris Groys, Jane Blocker, Carolee Schneemann,…    
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Book details

List price: $71.50
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Intellect, Limited
Publication date: 3/15/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 652
Size: 0.69" wide x 0.90" long x 0.15" tall
Weight: 2.838
Language: English

Introductions
The Now and the Has Been: Paradoxes of Live Art in History
Then Again
Theories and Histories
Introduction
The Performativity of Performance Documentation
Dead Mannequin Walking: Fluxus and the Politics of Reception
The Viral Ontology of Performance
Can Photographs Make It So? Repeated Outbreaks of VALIE EXPORT's Genital Panic Since 1969
Macular Degeneration: Some Peculiar Aspects of Performance Art Documentation
History and Precariousness: In Search of a Performative Historiography
Performance Remains
Not as Before, but Simply: Again
The Prosthetic Present Tense: Documenting Chinese Time-based Art
Progressive Striptease
Repetition: A Skin which Unravels
Art in the Age of Biopolitics: From Artwork to Art Documentation
The Interstices of History
An Unofficial Timeline of Socialist and Post-Socialist Performance
Documents
Introduction
A Text on 20 years with 66 footnotes
Faith Wilding, Waiting and Wait-With
Lynn Hershman and/as Roberta Breitmore
We Are Formatted Memories
Franko B and Kamal Ackarie, Don't Leave Me This Way
Make Me Stop Smoking
The Personal Evolution of the Performance Object (Or, What to Do with Leftovers)
Cai Yuan and J.J. Xi, Mad for Real
Hayley Newman, MiniFlux
Daniel Joseph Martinez, Call Me Ishmael or The Fully Enlightened Earth Radiates Disaster Triumphant
Multiple Journeys: A Performance Chronology
Attending to Anthony McCall's Long Film for Ambient Light
ReCut Project
Assuming a Migrant Woman's Identity
Barbara Smith, Intimations of Immortality
Santiago Sierra and the "Contexts" of History
Reconstruction2
Documents of Chinese Time-based Art: Three Impressions from Three Fragments
Both Sitting Duet and Cheap Lecture
Aftermath: The Performance / Installation Nexus
Timeline of Ideas: Live Art in (Art) History, A Primarily European-US-based Trajectory of Debates and Exhibitions Relating to Performance Documentation and Re-enactments
Dialogues
Introduction
Interior Squirrel and the Vicissitudes of History
I Just Go in Life
The Maybe: Modes of Performance and the "Live"
Photography as a Performative Act
Do it Again, Do it Again (Turn Around, Go Back)
Touching Remains
Reverse Martyrologies
The Live Artist as Archaeologist
Every House Has a Door
Alliterations
Introduction and Translation: No�mie Solomon
Intangibles
Acknowledgements
Author Biographies
Index