Guerilla Guide to Performance Art
How to Make a Living as an Artist
1st Edition
Published on 1. June 2004
352 pages
978-0-8264-1976-7 (ISBN)
Description
The Guerilla Performance and Multimedia Handbook is the ultimate guide for artists at all stages of their careers engaged in creating original performance and multimedia work, including hybrids of theatre, visual art, installation, physical theatre, dance, CD-Rom and web design. It covers all aspects of artist support including starting up a company, funding, multimedia tools, and documentation and marketing, and incorporates a useful Yellow Pages section with contact information for production, funding, venues, galleries, publications, festivals, printers, equipment hire, technical support, artists organizations, performance archives, copyright offices and software support. The book is lavishly illustrated and interviews from major artists and directors of some of the leading artist support groups in the UK and US along with illuminating case studies address practical questions and offer indispensable insights into how to succeed in the performance arts.
More details
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-0-8264-1976-7 (9780826419767)
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Book
06/2004
Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
€114.20
Shipment within 15-20 days
Person
Leslie Hill is Co-Artistic Director and Founder of Curious, the award-winning London-based theatre company.
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Introduction
- Section 1: Artists in Profile
- Bobby Baker
- Johannes Birringer
- Laurie Beth Clarke
- Toni Dove
- Leslie Hill
- Hsin-Chien Huang
- Joe Lawlor, desperate optimists
- Tim Miller
- Helen Paris
- Guillermo Gómez-Peña
- Nancy Reilly McVitie
- Vanessa Richards, Mannafest
- Rachel Rosenthal
- Stelarc
- Julie Tolentino
- Lois Weaver
- James Yarker, Stan's Cafe
- Section 2: Organizations in Profile
- Introduction
- Judith Knight & Gill Lloyd, Artsadmin
- Sara Diamond, The Banff Centre
- Thomas Mulready, Cleveland Performance Art Festival
- Barry Smith, Performance Arts Digital Research Unit
- Paul Couillard, FADO
- Martha Wilson, Franklin Furnace
- Lizbeth Goodman, INMPR
- Sophie Cameron, New Work Network
- Kathy McArdle, Project Arts Centre
- Tanja Farman, queerupnorth
- Section 3: Funding
- Introduction
- Daniel Brine, Live Art Development Agency
- Paula Brown, London Arts
- Helen Cole, Arnolfini
- Mark Dey, WestMidlands Arts
- Manick Govinda, Artsadmin
- Lois Keidan, Live Art Development Agency
- Richard Loveless, ISA
- Mark Waugh, Arts Council of England
- Section 4: Production
- Introduction
- Emma Wilson, Lighting Designer
- Zara Waldebeck, Film & Video Production
- Ian Grant, Digital Production
- Section 5: Documentation & Marketing
- Introduction
- Chris Lord, Marketing & PR
- Frances McMahon Ward, Demo Tapes
- Tony Nandi, Photography & Digital Imaging
- Section 6: Stay Out of Jail
- Introduction
- Steve Ehrlicher, Accountant
- Charlotte Jones, Director of ITC
- Ursula Smartt, Performance, Multimedia & Copyright Laws
- Contacts
- Contributors
