Critical Live Art
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Critical Live Art

Contemporary Histories of Performance in the UK

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Critical Live Art

Contemporary Histories of Performance in the UK

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Live Art is a contested category, not least because of the historical, disciplinary and institutional ambiguities that the term often tends to conceal. Live Art can be usefully defined as a peculiarly British variation on particular legacies of cultural experimentation – a historically and culturally contingent translation of categories including body art, performance art, time-based art, and endurance art. The recent social and cultural history of the UK has involved specific factors that have crucially influenced the development of Live Art since the late 1970s. These have included issues in national cultural politics relating to sexuality, gender, disability, technology, and cultural policy.

In the past decade there has been a proliferation of festivals of Live Art in the UK and growing support for Live Art in major venues. Nevertheless, while specific artists have been afforded critical essays and monographs, there is a relative absence of scholarly work on Live Art as a historically and culturally specific mode of artistic production. Through essays by leading scholars and critical interviews with influential artists in the sector, Critical Live Art addresses the historical and cultural specificity of contemporary experimental performance, and explores the diversity of practices that are carried out, programmed, read or taught as Live Art.

This book is based on a special issue of Contemporary Theatre Review.

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Publisher
Routledge
Year
2016
ISBN
9781134907502
Edition
1
Topic
Media & Performing Arts
Subtopic
Performing Arts

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Citation Information
  6. Notes on Contributors
  7. Foreword: Live Art Performance Art Body Art
  8. Introduction: Live Art in the UK
  9. 1. Marginalia: Towards a Historiography of Live Art
  10. 2. Towards a Prehistory of Live Art in the UK
  11. 3. The Freaks' Roll Call: Live Art and the Arts Council, 1968-73
  12. 4. Positive Surrender: An Interview with BREYER P-ORRIDGE
  13. 5. The Common Turn in Performance
  14. 6. Duckie's Gay Shame: Critiquing Pride and Selling Shame in Club Performance
  15. 7. Frightening the Horses: An Interview with Neil Bartlett
  16. 8. Spokeswomen and Posterpeople: Disability, Advocacy and Live Art
  17. 9. Skin Deep: Female Flesh in UK Live Art since 1999
  18. 10. The Skin of the Theatre: An Interview with Julia Bardsley
  19. 11. On the Endurance of Theatre in Live Art
  20. 12. Come Closer: Confessions of Intimate Spectators in One to One Performance
  21. Index