A publication on the work of Claudia Bucher with texts by Eva Kramis, Heige Meyer, Max Huwyler, Guy André Mayor, Ruedi Schill, Permin Bossart and Adrian Hossli.
In German and English.
Kindly donated for the Swiss Live Art Study Room Guide.
In this latest addition to the highly acclaimed ‘Art and…’ series, Aloi surveys the insistent presence of animals in the world of contemporary art, exploring the leading concepts which inform this emerging practice.
The experimental art scene in post-Tiananmen China has featured an array of animal bodies, both living and dead, as well as interspecies encounters ranging from the playful to the sadistic, from the gently collaborative to the violently conflictual, which interrogate and destabilize contemporary constructions of the nature-culture binary.
Artist/Author: Jill Dolan | Editor: Melanie Bennet, Richard Gough, Laura Levin, Marlis Schweitzer | Reference: A0362 | Type: Article
Traces Dolan’s key terms – ‘publics’, ‘feelings’, ‘practice’, ‘utopian performatives’ and ‘performance’ – personally and politically rather than from a strictly scholarly perspective.
Artist/Author: various | Editor: Jon McKenzie, Heike Roms, C J W L Wee | Reference: P1484 | ISBN: 978-0-230-00845-8 | Type: Publication
A collection of essays by international scholars that addresses the global development of performance research in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. The collection functions as a critical reader on diverse approaches to studying performance that contest dominant paradigms of performance studies.