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).

This volume, which originally appeared as a special issue of The Drama Review, looks at puppets, masks, and other performing objects from a broad range of perspectives.

A provocative history of live art traces the precedents of contemporary multi-media events to Bauhaus experimentalism and surveys the Futurists' manifesto-like events, the Dadaists' cabarets, and later “happenings” and “spectacles.”

How have avant-gardes been shaped by racism and contributed to racist power and imperialism? How have the claims made by avant-garde political and artistic groups to liberate humanity been indebted to religious intolerance? And how has the vanguard commitment to radical cultural action contributed to war, terror, and destruction? 

Assembling a remarkable group of scholars, these essays explore how the circulation and exchange of “vectors of the radical” shape the avant-garde.

Explores how artists engaged with the sonic conditions of modernity through dramatic form, characterization, staging, technology, performance style, and other forms of interaction.  

Niebisch retraces how the early Avant-Garde movements started out as parasites inhabiting and irritating the emerging mass media circuits of the press, cinema, and wired and wireless communication.

Rodenbeck offers a rigorous art historical reading of Kaprow's project and related artworks. She finds that these experiential and experimental works offered not a happy communalism but a strong and canny critique of contemporary sociality. Happenings, she argues, were far more ambivalent, negative, and even creepy than they have been portrayed, either in contemporaneous accounts or in more recent efforts to connect them to contemporary art's participatory strategies.

This textbook introduces the important traditions and conventions of the modernist avant-garde, reassesses theatrical techniques, and provides examples of plays and performances from across Europe and America.

A comprehensive bibliography of writings on 'Action Art' in the twentieth century.

Artificial Hells is the first historical and theoretical overview of socially engaged participatory art, known in the US as ‘social practice’. Claire Bishop follows the trajectory of twentieth-century art and examines key moments in the development of a participatory aesthetic. The itinerary takes in Futurism and Dada; the Situationist International; Happenings in Eastern Europe, Argentina and Paris; the 1970s Community Arts Movement; and the Artists Placement Group.

Written in French and English

Adrien Sina Illustrated Lectures Part 3:, Josephine Baker, Valentine de St-Point, Vaslav Nijinski, Isadora Duncan, Rudolf von Laban, Mary Wigman, Valeska Gert, Martha Graham, Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Jooss, Tadeusz Kantor, Hijikata, Josef Beuys, Günter Brus, Hermann Nitsch, John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Martin Scorsese, Adrian Piper, Ana Mendieta, Chris Burden, Michel Journiac, Gina Pane, Henri Maccheroni, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Valie Export, William Kentridge, Jean-Michel Bruyère, Krzystof Wodiczko, Zhang Huan, Liu Jin, Marina Abramovic, Guerrilla Girls, Yinka Shonibare, Mona Hatoum, Shirin Neshat, Fred Forest, Sigalit Landau, Franko B, Sasha Waltz… (T1, Tramway, Glasgow, 10 Feb 2008, 14.00 – 15.00).Futurism

Adrien Sina Illustrated Lectures Part 2:, Josephine Baker, Valentine de St-Point, Vaslav Nijinski, Isadora Duncan, Rudolf von Laban, Mary Wigman, Valeska Gert, Martha Graham, Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Jooss, Tadeusz Kantor, Hijikata, Josef Beuys, Günter Brus, Hermann Nitsch, John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Martin Scorsese, Adrian Piper, Ana Mendieta, Chris Burden, Michel Journiac, Gina Pane, Henri Maccheroni, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Valie Export, William Kentridge, Jean-Michel Bruyère, Krzystof Wodiczko, Zhang Huan, Liu Jin, Marina Abramovic, Guerrilla Girls, Yinka Shonibare, Mona Hatoum, Shirin Neshat, Fred Forest, Sigalit Landau, Franko B, Sasha Waltz… (T1, Tramway, Glasgow, 10 Feb 2008, 14.00 – 15.00).Futurism

The architect, artist, curator and theoretician Adrien Sina offers an overview of twentieth-century artists on Politics, Ethics & Human Rights, Part 1: Josephine Baker, Valentine de St-Point, Vaslav Nijinski, Isadora Duncan, Rudolf von Laban, Mary Wigman, Valeska Gert, Martha Graham, Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Jooss, Tadeusz Kantor, Hijikata, Josef Beuys, Günter Brus, Hermann Nitsch, John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Martin Scorsese, Adrian Piper, Ana Mendieta, Chris Burden, Michel Journiac, Gina Pane, Henri Maccheroni, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Valie Export, William Kentridge, Jean-Michel Bruyère, Krzystof Wodiczko, Zhang Huan, Liu Jin, Marina Abramovic, Guerrilla Girls, Yinka Shonibare, Mona Hatoum, Shirin Neshat, Fred Forest, Sigalit Landau, Franko B, Sasha Waltz… (T1, Tramway, Glasgow, 10 Feb 2008, 14.00 – 15.00).