In this invitation to reflect on the power of performance, Diana Taylor explores many of the ‘performance’ uses and iterations: artistic, economic, sexual, political, and technological performance; the performance of everyday life; and the gendered, sexed, and racialized performance of bodies. Images and texts interact to show how performance is at once a creative act, a means to comprehend power, a method of transmitting memory and identity, and a way of understanding the world.
Catalogue from the first retrospective to present the wide-ranging work of the Chicano performance and conceptual art group Asco. Exhibition held at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (September – December 2011) and Williams College Museum of Art (February – July, 2012).
Sheren explores performance art and politics on the US Frontera since 1984. Beginning with a political history of the border, with an emphasis on the Chicano movement and its art production, Ila Sheren explores the forces behind the shift in thinking about the border in the late twentieth century.
Mostra OSSO Latino Americana de Performances festival programme, 2013. Includes an introduction by Dani Felix. In Spanish and Portuguese.
The book assembles the work of 136 different collectives and artists, both Mexican and foreign, who created some 200 works in Mexico City over the period of a decade. Texts: Cuauhtémoc Medina, Edgar Hernández, Inbal Miller, Patricia Sloane, Guillermo Santamarina. Bilingual edition.
Part of a CD series on performance in Mexico. In English and Spanish.
Part of CD series on performance in Mexico. In English and Spanish.
Part of CD series on performance in Mexico. In English and Spanish.
Part of a CD series on performance in Mexico. In English and Spanish.
Regina Jose Galindo dencounces violence women and, more generally, the social, political and cultural violence of contemporary society.