Fifty Key Performance Artists by Cesare Schotzko, T. Nikki; Disman, Adriana;

Short description:

Fifty Key Performance Artists is a critical introduction to some of the most influential and innovative performance artists from the emergence of the genre post-World War II to the present, whose work has largely been underrecognized and underacknowledged within an English-language context.

Long description:

Fifty Key Performance Artists is a critical introduction to some of the most influential and innovative performance artists from the emergence of the genre post-World War II to the present, whose work has largely been underrecognized and underacknowledged within an English-language context.

The collection compiles an international and innovative index of artists who, primarily through body art and live performance, define the field. It includes artists whose now-canonical work defined performance art through feminist body art, interventionist public art, and durational performance, as well as new artists who are redefining the genre through emerging technologies and an explicit alignment with social activism. Artists indexed include Arahmaiani, Rebecca Belmore, Rocío Boliver, Lorenza Böttner, Disabled Avant-Garde, Va-Bene Elikem Fiatsi aka crazinisT artist, Emily Jacir, Lee Wen, Lorraine O’Grady, Graciela Ovejero Postigo, Tracey Rose, Seiji Shimoda, Leafā Wilson aka Olga Krause and Marcía X. Each entry considers the artist’s body of work in its historical, cultural, and political context, and a map at the end provides additional artists whose work is artistically and historically relational to those included.

This is an essential survey of performance art for scholars and students in visual, theatre, and performance studies and for those interested in matters of the body in performance, reception theory, and live art.

"Fifty Key Performance Artists brings to the fore influential and often overlooked artists from around the world. Clear, engaging, comprehensive, and thoughtfully organised, this book will be a vital resource for students, scholars, and anyone interested in how performance art shapes cultures, identities, and activisms, in the past and in the present." 

Dominic Johnson, author of Unlimited Action: The Performance of Extremity in the 1970s

Table of Contents:

Introduction

1.     Chumpon Apisuk

2.     Arahmaiani

3.     Jelili Atiku

4.     Aye Ko

5.     Adina Bar-On

6.     Rebecca Belmore

7.     Rocío Boliver

8.     Lorenza Böttner

9.     Leigh Bowery

10.  Tania Bruguera

11.  Chen Jin

12.  Nikhil Chopra

13.  Vaginal Davis

14.  Vlasta Delimar

15.  Manmeet Devgun

16.  Disabled Avant-Garde

17.  Esther Ferrer

18.  Va-Bene Elikem Fiatsi aka crazinisT artist

19.  Regina José Galindo

20.  Tara and Razieh Goudarzi

21.  Kamil Guenatri

22.  He Yunchang

23.  Adrian Howells

24.  Tari Ito

25.  Emily Jacir

26.  Kollektivnye Deistviya / Collective Actions

27.  Lee Wen

28.  Alastair MacLennan

29.  Tanya Mars

30.  Karel Miler

31.  Şükran Moral

32.  Eli Neira

33.  Boris Nieslony

34.  Lorraine O’Grady

35.  Clifford Owens

36.  Clemente Padín

37.  Graciela Ovejero Postigo

38.  Ashmina Ranjit

39.  Rosanna Raymond

40.  Tracey Rose

41.  Rosemberg Sandoval

42.  Hassan Sharif

43.  Seiji Shimoda

44.  Latai Taumoepeau

45.  Sylvie Tourangeau

46.  Voina

47.  Zbigniew Warpechowski

48.  Leafā Wilson aka Olga Krause

49.  Watan Wuma

50.  Márcia X