The Body in Performance
1st Edition
Published on 8. April 2014
120 pages
978-1-134-43178-6 (ISBN)
Description
Lively yet intriguing, The Body in Performance is a varied collection of essays about this much-discussed area.
Posing the question "Why this current preoccupation with the performed body?" the collection of specially commissioned essays from both academics and practitioners - in some cases one and the same person - considers such cutting edge topics as the abject body and performance, censorship and live art, the presentation of violence on stage, carnal art, and the vexed issue of mimesis in the theatre. Drawing variously on the work of Franko B., Orlan, Annie Sprinkle, Karen Finley, and Forced Entertainment, it concludes with a creative piece about a 'Famous New York Performance Artist.' Contributors include Rebecca Schneider whose book The Explicit Body in Performance is a key text in this area, and Joan Lipkin, director and writer.
Posing the question "Why this current preoccupation with the performed body?" the collection of specially commissioned essays from both academics and practitioners - in some cases one and the same person - considers such cutting edge topics as the abject body and performance, censorship and live art, the presentation of violence on stage, carnal art, and the vexed issue of mimesis in the theatre. Drawing variously on the work of Franko B., Orlan, Annie Sprinkle, Karen Finley, and Forced Entertainment, it concludes with a creative piece about a 'Famous New York Performance Artist.' Contributors include Rebecca Schneider whose book The Explicit Body in Performance is a key text in this area, and Joan Lipkin, director and writer.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
File size
9,10 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-134-43178-6 (9781134431786)
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Patrick Campbell
The Body in Performance
Book
07/2016
1st Edition
Routledge
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Patrick Campbell
The Body in Performance
Book
03/2001
Harwood Academic (Performing Arts)
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Person
Edited by Campbell, Patrick
Content
Introduction, Patrick Campbell; Chapter 1 Minding the Matter of Representation: Staging the Body (Politic), Helen Spackman; Chapter 2 On Taking the Blind in Hand, Rebecca Schneider; Chapter 3 The Use and Abuse of the Female Body in Performance Art, Imogen Ashby; Chapter 4 Censoring the Body: Whores, Goddesses and Annie Sprinkle, Patrick Campbell; Chapter 5 Abject Identities and Fluid Performances: Theorizing the Leaking Body, David Harradine; Chapter 6 Everytime You Go Away ... You Take a Piece of Me with You, Steve Harper; Chapter 7 "The Girl Who Lost Her Voice", Joan Lipkin;
