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Long Suffering - American Endurance Art as Prophetic Witness (Hardcover)
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Long Suffering - American Endurance Art as Prophetic Witness (Hardcover)
Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance
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Long Suffering productively links avant-garde performance
practiceswith religious histories in the United States, setting
contemporaryperformances of endurance art within a broader context
of propheticreligious discourse in the United States. Its focus is
on the work of RonAthey, Linda Montano, and John Duncan, U.S.-based
artists whoseperformances involve extended periods of suffering.
These unsettlingperformances can disturb, shock, or frighten
audiences, leaving themunsure how to respond. The book examines how
these artists workat the limits of the personal and the
interpersonal, inflicting sufferingon themselves and others,
transforming audiences into witnesses,straining social relations,
and challenging definitions of art and of ethics.By performing the
death of self at the heart of trauma, strategies ofendurance signal
artists’ attempts to visualize, legitimize, and testify tothe
persistent experience of being wounded. The artworks discussed
findtheir foundations in artists’ early experiences of religion
and connectionswith the work of reformers from Angelina Grimké to
Rev. Martin LutherKing, who also used suffering as a strategy to
highlight social injusticeand call for ethical, social, and
political renewal.
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