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The Methuen Drama Companion to Performance Art offers a
comprehensive guide to the major issues and interdisciplinary
debates concerning performance in art contexts that have developed
over the last decade. It understands 'performance art' as an
institutional, cultural, and economic phenomenon rather than as a
label or object. Following the ever-increasing institutionalization
and mainstreaming of performance and its methods of display,
representation, and mediation in the wider cultural sphere, the
book's chapters identify a marked change in the economies and labor
practices surrounding performance art and its institutional
curating and presenting practices, reflective of an advanced stage
of capitalism that approaches art production in tandem with event
production. Embracing what we perceive to be the 'oxymoronic
status' of performance art-where it is simultaneously precarious
and highly profitable-the essays in this book map the myriad
gestures and radical possibilities of this extreme contradiction.
The Companion activates an interdisciplinary perspective to better
attend to performance art's legacies and its current practices. It
brings together specially commissioned essays from leading
innovative scholars from a wide range of approaches including art
history, visual and performance studies, dance and theatre
scholarship in order to provide a non-hierarchical merging of the
disciplines within and between the humanities. It provides ten
methodological directions that examine possibilities of
transformative change-the core of performance art's transgressive
radical legacy. The book also includes a section on new directions
and resources devoted to performance art. The chapters will thus
provide multifocal perspectives on recent research trends to offer
an array of intertwined methodologies.
The Methuen Drama Companion to Performance Art offers a
comprehensive guide to the major issues and interdisciplinary
debates concerning performance in art contexts that have developed
over the last decade. It understands performance art as an
institutional, cultural, and economic phenomenon rather than as a
label or object. Following the ever-increasing institutionalization
and mainstreaming of performance, the book's chapters identify a
marked change in the economies and labor practices surrounding
performance art, and explore how this development is reflective of
capitalist approaches to art and event production. Embracing what
we perceive to be the 'oxymoronic status' of performance art-where
it is simultaneously precarious and highly profitable-the essays in
this book map the myriad gestures and radical possibilities of this
extreme contradiction. This Companion adopts an interdisciplinary
perspective to present performance art's legacies and its current
practices. It brings together specially commissioned essays from
leading innovative scholars from a wide range of approaches
including art history, visual and performance studies, dance and
theatre scholarship in order to provide a comprehensive and
multifocal overview of the emerging research trends and
methodologies devoted to performance art.
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