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.
A survey of performance history of women Mexican artists. Spanish language.
Review of Amelia Jones and Adrian Heathfield’s edited volume “Perform, Repeat, Record: Live Art in History” (2012).
The catalogue ifrom The Abramović Method exhibition in Milan 2012
The catalogue ifrom The Abramovic Method exhibition in Milan 2012
Publication accompanying the homonymous symposium: a collaboration between Plymouth Arts Centre and artist Marina Abramovic to produce a performance event that explored the history and future of the artist’s work. Newspaper-style publication in large folder.
Feature-length documentary film following Marina Abramovic as she prepares for a major retrospective of her work, taking place at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
Documents and critically examines one of the most fecund periods in the history of live art.
See also D0342 for still images, and P1002 essays and catalogue.
A comprehensive history of this remarkable organisation from its conception to the present.