Enduramorphosis
Performance as Transformation Through Endurance
1st Edition
Published on 13. November 2025
280 pages
978-1-5381-9019-7 (ISBN)
Description
This book unfolds the theory of enduramorphosis, an emergent strangeness that arises in an endurance performance when the body is pushed to its limit and reacts.
Artist Chelsea Coon works across performance and lens-based extensions in photography, video, livestream, digital arts, and new media. Through her work, Coon explores how enduramorphosis is manifested differently across divergent performances. Written from a first-person perspective, this book presents an accessible intellectual exploration of the process and conceptualization of provocative and profound performances. Chelsea Coon combines powerful emotional resonance with physical and psychological extremes, giving the reader insights into the phenomenon of enduramorphosis and a rare glimpse into the motivations, feelings, desires and visceral excesses experienced by the performing body as it undergoes a transformation that lasts.
Artist Chelsea Coon works across performance and lens-based extensions in photography, video, livestream, digital arts, and new media. Through her work, Coon explores how enduramorphosis is manifested differently across divergent performances. Written from a first-person perspective, this book presents an accessible intellectual exploration of the process and conceptualization of provocative and profound performances. Chelsea Coon combines powerful emotional resonance with physical and psychological extremes, giving the reader insights into the phenomenon of enduramorphosis and a rare glimpse into the motivations, feelings, desires and visceral excesses experienced by the performing body as it undergoes a transformation that lasts.
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Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
10 b/w photos
ISBN-13
978-1-5381-9019-7 (9781538190197)
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Persons
Chelsea Coon is an artist and writer whose work focuses on the shifting interconnections of the body, time, and space. She considers limits of the body and the enduring effects of frameworks that force the body to act and react through performance, photography, video, painting, sculpture, installation, and text. Coon has exhibited and performed extensively internationally in galleries, biennales, and festivals, and her writings on contemporary art, performance and philosophy have been published globally. She lives and works in Los Angeles.
Content
Acknowledgements
List of Figures
@all_anything: A Foreword, Jörg Sternagel
Introduction: In the body
Part I: Space
1. 2012-14 Select Performances
2. 2015 Select Performances
Part II: Time
3. 2016-17 Select Performances
Part III: Body
4. 2019-20 Select Performances
5. 2021-4 Select Performances
Conclusion
Concentric Echoes of Enduring Presence: An Afterword, Sean Lowry
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
List of Figures
@all_anything: A Foreword, Jörg Sternagel
Introduction: In the body
Part I: Space
1. 2012-14 Select Performances
2. 2015 Select Performances
Part II: Time
3. 2016-17 Select Performances
Part III: Body
4. 2019-20 Select Performances
5. 2021-4 Select Performances
Conclusion
Concentric Echoes of Enduring Presence: An Afterword, Sean Lowry
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
