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Into Performance: Japanese Women Artists
This book brings to light the historical significance of five women artists – Yoko Ono, Yayoi Kusama, Takako Saito, Mieko Shiomi, and Shigeko Kubota, who were among the first Japanese women to leave their country – and its male-dominated, conservative art world – to explore the artistic possibilities in New York.
Fair Play
What is the quality of participation in contemporary art and performance? Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism explores this question through the work of important contemporary artists and organizations including Marcus Coates, Phil Collins, Jeremy Deller, Michael Landy, Grayson Perry, Rachel Whiteread, Lone Twin, Punchdrunk, Tate Modern and the National Theatre.
Immersive Theatres: Intimacy and Immediacy in Contemporary Performance
Charting the rise of the immersive theatre phenomenon, this is the first survey of immersive theories and practices for students, scholars and practitioners of contemporary performance. It includes interviews with immersive artists and examines key topics such as site-specific performance and immersive technologies.
Audience Participation in Theatre: Aesthetics of the Invitation
This book presents a theory of audience participation in the theatre, based on the importance of the moment of invitation and how an event changes character when such an invitation is made.
Theatre and The Body
Drawing on many examples from contemporary performance, this book is a provocative starting point for understanding the surprisingly complex relationship between theatre and the body. Foreword by Marina Abramovic.
Gob Squad and the Impossible Attempt To Make Sense of It All
A 150 page reader for students and other particularly interested audience members stuffed full of texts, scripts, interviews and concept documents.
The Only Way Home Is Through the Show: Performance Work of Lois Weaver
The book explores Weaver’s collaborative work with Split Britches and Spiderwoman as well as her solo projects, performance interventions, and work as a facilitator, teacher, and as Tammy WhyNot.
A Good Night Out for the Girls: Popular Feminisms in Contemporary Theatre and Performance
Moving across the boundaries of mainstream and experimental circuits, from the affective pleasures of commercially successful shows such as Calendar Girls and Mamma Mia! to the feminist possibilities of new burlesque and stand-up, this book offers a lucid and accessible account of popular feminisms in contemporary theatre and performance.
The Number One Bus Drawing Book
An edited collection of work made between 15th and 25th September 2010 for b-side festival. Drawings by Joff Winterhart ; text and design by Sue Palmer. Includes a CD with the song composed by the piece.
Other Hospitalities: Reflections on Chris Goode’s Ensemble Ponyboy Curtis
Includes reactions by Good, Megan Vaughan, Costa and Simon Bowes.
