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TALKER #1-8
Eight issues of the interview zine about performance.
In the Beginning is Drawing
Carolee Schneemann in conversation with Bonnie Marranca and Claire MacDonald
Performance: Live Art, 1909 to the Present
A provocative history of live art traces the precedents of contemporary multi-media events to Bauhaus experimentalism and surveys the Futurists’ manifesto-like events, the Dadaists’ cabarets, and later “happenings” and “spectacles.”
Concerning Consequences: Studies in Art, Destruction, and Trauma
From war and environmental pollution to racism and sexual assault, the publication analyzes the consequences of trauma as seen in the works of artists like Marina Abramović, Pope.L, and Chris Burden.
The Triumph of Anti-Art: Conceptual and Performance Art in the Formation of Post-Modernism
Guides the reader through a thicket of seemingly arcane meanings of nonrepresentational art forms, and brings clarity to the intentions and agendas of these artists, as well as to their real world contexts.
Performance by Artists
A collection of essays, documents, & bibiliography reagrding performance art edited by people associated with a Toronto-based arts organization.
Art Sex Music
Autobiography of an artist who, as a founding member of the avant-garde group Throbbing Gristle and electronic pioneers Chris & Cosey, has consistently challenged the boundaries of music over the past four decades.
Essays on the Blurring of Art and Life
Kaprow’s sustained inquiry into the paradoxical relationship of art to life and into the nature of meaning itself is brought into focus in this newly expanded collection of his most significant writings.
Third Area: A Feminist Reading of Performance at London’s ICA in the 1970s
A PhD thesis offering a new account of the emergence of performance forms, including Happenings, participatory art, performance art and performances for the camera, in visual art and related contexts at the ICA.
Silent Explosion: Ivor Davies and Destruction in Art
Exhibition catalogue. In Welsh and English.
National Museum Cardiff, 14 November 2015 – 20 March 2016.
