Acts of Transgression: Contemporary Live Art in South Africa

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15 writers explore the experimental, interdisciplinary and radically transgressive field of contemporary live art in South Africa.

Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041).

Editor	Jay Pather and Catherine Boulle
Publisher	Wits University Press
ISBN	978-1-77614-279-8
Reference	P4054
Date	2019
Type	Publication

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