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Books: Performance Art: From Futurism to the Present

RoseLee Goldberg’s study, first published in 1979, has been brought completely up to date in a new volume that provides a critical analysis of the technological, political, and aesthetic shifts that marked the end of the twentieth century and are propelling us
September 13, 2012

Books: Art of Projection (Stan Douglas & Christopher Eamons)

Art of Projection [amazonify]3775723706[/amazonify] Ten essays, written by leading art historians and critics, including Stan Douglas, Mieke Bal and Beatriz Colomina, address precedents for the projection of images in space, including nineteenth-century magic lantern shows and the novel spatial/temporal representations pioneered by
September 8, 2012
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Featured: Bert Neumann, “Imitation of Life”

[amazonify]3934344089[/amazonify]Bert Neumann, chief set designer at Berlin’s Volksbühne since 1992, grew up in East Berlin, studied stage design at the Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weißensee and with Leonore Blievernicht and Susanne Schuboth founded the design firm LSD (Last Second Design) in 1990. In the interview
July 28, 2012

Books: 39 Microlectures: In Proximity of Performance

39 Microlectures: In Proximity of Performance is a collection of miniature stories, parables, musings and thinkpieces on the nature of reading, writing, art, collaboration, performance, life, death, the universe and everything. It is a unique and moving document for our times, full
May 17, 2012

Books: Performance, Technology, & Science

Performance, Technology, & Science Johannes Birringer Performance, Technology, & Science by Johannes Birringer explores convergences between performance and science through an investigation of new technologies that drive computer-mediated, interactive art. In tracing the evolution of digital performance within a particular history of engineering
February 9, 2012

Books: Land/Scape/Theater

Land/Scape/Theater proposes landscape as a necessary paradigm for understanding modern theater’s increasingly spatialized aesthetic as well as its engagement with the cultural meanings of place and space. Embracing subjects as diverse as the “landscape dramaturgy” of Suzan-Lori Parks, Artaud’s trip to the
February 5, 2012

Books: Entangled: Technology and the Transformation of Performance

This ambitious and comprehensive book explores technology’s influence on artistic performance practices in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. In Entangled, Chris Salter shows that technologies, from the mechanical to the computational—from a “ballet of objects and lights” staged by Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes in
January 15, 2012

Books: The Theatre of Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio

The Theatre of Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio chronicles four years in the life of an extraordinary Italian theatre company whose work is widely recognized as some of the most exciting theatre currently being made in Europe. In the first English-language book to document
December 9, 2011

Books: Chance (Whitechapel: Documents of Contemporary Art)

The chance situation or random event—whether as a strategy or as a subject of investigation—has been central to many artists' practices across a multiplicity of forms, including expressionism, automatism, the readymade, collage, surrealist and conceptual photography, fluxus event scores, film, audio and
November 22, 2011

Books: Postdramatic Theatre (Hans-Thies Lehmann)

Postdramatic Theatre by Hans-Thies Lehmann Hans-Thies Lehmann’s groundbreaking study of the new theatre forms that have developed since the late 1960s has become a key reference point in international discussions of contemporary theatre. Postdramatic Theatre refers to theatre after drama. Despite their diversity,
October 5, 2011

Books: The Theatre of Richard Maxwell and the New York City Players

The theatre of Richard Maxwell and the New York City Players has received significant international recognition over the past ten years. The company has received three OBIEs, for House (1999), Drummer Wanted (2002) and Good Samaritans (2005). Maxwell received a Guggenheim Fellowship
August 31, 2011

Books: Eroticism and Death in Theatre and Performance

Exploring a range of topics, including Greek tragedy, Shakespearean theater, contemporary British plays, opera, and the theatricality of Parisian culture, this compilation provides new perspectives on the relationship between Eros and Death in a series of dramatic texts, theatrical practices, and
August 16, 2011

Books: The Cambridge Introduction to Scenography

Scenography – the manipulation and orchestration of the performance environment – is an increasingly popular and key area in performance studies. This book introduces the reader to the purpose, identity and scope of scenography and its theories and concepts. Settings and structures,
June 15, 2011

Books: Situation (Whitechapel: Documents of Contemporary Art)

Situation—a unique set of conditions produced in both space and time and ranging across material, social, political, and economic relations—has become a key concept in twenty-first-century art. Rooted in artistic practices of the 1960s and 1970s, the idea of situation has evolved
May 25, 2011
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