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Adrian Piper: A Reader
Published in conjunction with MoMA’s retrospective exhibition and in collaboration with the artist, this scholarly volume presents new critical essays that expand on Piper’s practice in ways that have been previously under- or unaddressed.
Stolen Life
The second volume of the landmark trilogy consent not to be a single being.
Split Asunder: Obstetric Violence and Pain in Máiréad Delaney’s At What Point It Breaks (20170)
Examines the embodiment of pain in Máiréad Delaney’s performance.
Part of The Library of Performing Rights (P3041).
Touched Bodies: The Performative Turn in Latin American Art
What is the role of pleasure and pain in the politics of art? Polgovsky Ezcurra approaches this question as she examines the flourishing of live and intermedial performance in Latin America during times of authoritarianism and its significance during transitions to democracy.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041).
Black Performance Theory
Considering how blackness is imagined in and through performance, the contributors address topics including flight as a persistent theme in African American aesthetics, the circulation of minstrel tropes in Liverpool and in Afro-Mexican settlements in Oaxaca, and the reach of hip-hop politics as people around the world embrace the music and dance.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041)
Black and Blur
The first volume in the trilogy consent not to be a single being engages in a capacious consideration of the place and force of blackness in African diaspora arts, politics, and life.
Unlimited Action: The performance of extremity in the 1970s
It examines the ‘performance of extremity’ as practices at the limits of the histories of performance and art, in performance art’s most fertile and prescient decade, the 1970s. Dominic Johnson recounts and analyses game-changing performance events by six artists: Kerry Trengove, Ulay, Genesis P-Orridge, Anne Bean, the Kipper Kids, and Stephen Cripps.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041)
Actors and the Art of Performance: Under Exposure
The author draws on her experience as both a theatre actor and a university professor whose teachings in the art of acting rely heavily on her own experience and also on her philosophical knowledge.
You ought not to be obsessed with the idea you have to intervene on every subject at every moment
Interview with Jacques Rancière.
Against Dance Criticism
On the role and necessity of dance writers.
