Live Art Now

Author : RoseLee Goldberg
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-07
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780500021255

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Performance Now by RoseLee Goldberg Pdf

A landmark publication documenting the development of performance by visual artists since the turn of the twenty-first century This major survey charts the development of live art across six continents since the turn of the twenty- first century, revealing how it has become an increasingly essential vehicle for communicating ideas across the globe in the new millennium. Performance Now offers an unprecedented illustrated survey of this temporal medium which is notoriously hard to document, written by respected curator, art historian, and critic RoseLee Goldberg. Six chapters cover different themes of performance art, such as beauty, global citizenship, and activism, as well as its intersection with other media including film and technology, dance, theater and architecture—interspersed with illustrated profiles of some of the world’s best-known performance artists, including Marina Abramovic, Matthew Barney, and Laurie Simmons. Extended captions assess the importance of specific works in context. At once a wonderful introduction to the medium and a must-have sourcebook for fans, Performance Now is the go-to reference for artists, students, and historians as well as lovers of avant-garde theater and film.

Author : Adrian Heathfield
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Art, Modern
ISBN : 0415972396

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Live by Adrian Heathfield Pdf

Leading artists and thinkers assess the relevance of Live Art now and its impact within the visual arts and the broader cultural sphere.

Author : Nina Katchadourian
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-02-08
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781452126869

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Sorted Books by Nina Katchadourian Pdf

A witty and thought-provoking collection of visual poems constructed from stacks of books. Delighting in the look and feel of books, conceptual artist Nina Katchadourian’s playful photographic series proves that books’ covers—or more specifically, their spines—can speak volumes. Over the past two decades, Katchadourian has perused libraries across the globe, selecting, stacking, and photographing groupings of two, three, four, or five books so that their titles can be read as sentences, creating whimsical narratives from the text found there. Thought-provoking, clever, and at times laugh-out-loud funny (one cluster of titles from the Akron Museum of Art’s research library consists of: Primitive Art /Just Imagine/Picasso/Raised by Wolves), Sorted Books is an enthralling collection of visual poems full of wry wit and bookish smarts. Praise for Sorted Books “Katchadourian’s project . . . takes on a weight beyond its initial novelty. It’s a love letter to books, book collecting and the act of reading.” —San Francisco Chronicle “As a longtime fan of [Katchadourian’s] long-running Sorted Books project I’m thrilled for the release of Sorted Books—a collection spanning nearly two decades of her witty and wise minimalist mediations on life by way of ingeniously arranged book spines. . . . In an era drowned in periodic death tolls for the future of the physical book, her project stands as a celebration of the spirit embedded in the magnificent materiality of the printed page.” —Brain Pickings “Katchadourian’s stacks possess an understated sophistication; they are true to the intimate nature of books and yet reveal their dramatic features and unexpected potential.” —Publishers Weekly

Author : Dominic Johnson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-29
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781134907434

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Critical Live Art by Dominic Johnson Pdf

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.

Author : RoseLee Goldberg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Art
ISBN : 0500282196

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Performance by RoseLee Goldberg Pdf

An exploration of visual culture and live performance art by the organizer of the "Six Evenings of Performance" exhibit considers the work of such contributors as Yves Klein, Gilbert & George, and others, in a study that also considers the form's pervasiveness in popular culture and politics. Reprint.

Author : Gray F. Watson,Jeni Walwin,Arts Council of Great Britain
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Performance art
ISBN : OCLC:272490199

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Live Art Now by Gray F. Watson,Jeni Walwin,Arts Council of Great Britain Pdf

Author : Mila Ryk
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-26
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781524536947

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Living Artists of Today by Mila Ryk Pdf

Living Artists of Today Contemporary Art Vol. III Living Artists of Today: Contemporary Art is a tribute to those who create to make this world a better, happier, and more beautiful place. Read. View. Enjoy.

Author : Deirdre Heddon,Jennie Klein
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-07
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137272317

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Histories and Practices of Live Art by Deirdre Heddon,Jennie Klein Pdf

In this dynamic collection a team of experts map the development of Live Art culturally, thematically and historically. Supported with examples from around the world, the text engages with a number of key practices, asking what these practices do and how they can be contextualised and understood.

Author : Lois Keidan,Aaron Wright
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 654 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-20
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781849438445

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The Live Art Almanac by Lois Keidan,Aaron Wright Pdf

The Live Art Almanac Volume 3 is a collection of ‘found’ writings about and around Live Art that were originally published, shared, sent, spread and read between January 2010 and December 2011. Selected from an open call for submissions and produced with a network of international partners, Volume 3 reflects the dynamic, international contexts in which Live Art and radical performance-based practices are taking place and the many ways they are being written about. Volume 3 features more traditional forms of writing such as newspaper reviews, journal articles, catalogue essays and lecture texts as well as new platforms for critical discourses like blogs, tweets and other emergent online media, to reflect the huge diversity of work and the seismic shifts that have happened in Live Art over the last few years, particularly the unprecedented institutional embrace of performance and the rise and rise of activist practices. The publication is grouped into seven loosely themed sections: Performance and the Institution; The Presence of Performance in Pop Culture and New Media; Performance, Activism and Public Protest; Taste, Trash and Outrageousness; On Stage/Off Stage: Performance and the Theatrical; Festivals, Scenes and Strategies: From the Local to the Global; and obituaries, lectures and miscellaneous writings. The Live Art Almanac Volume 3 is published by Live Art Development Agency and Oberon Books, and was developed in partnership with Live Art UK, Performance Space 122 (New York, USA), Performance Space (Sydney, Australia), La Pocha Nostra (San Francisco, USA), and Maska (Ljubljana, Slovenia), with additional support from Asia Art Archive (Hong Kong), ArteEast (New York/Middle East) and Ashkal Alwan (Beirut).

Author : Jeffrey Deitch,Roger Gastman,Aaron Rose
Publisher : Skira
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780847836178

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Art in the Streets by Jeffrey Deitch,Roger Gastman,Aaron Rose Pdf

A catalog of an exhibition that surveys the history of international graffiti and street art.

Author : Adrian Heathfield,Tehching Hsieh
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2015-08-07
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780262528214

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Out of Now, updated edition by Adrian Heathfield,Tehching Hsieh Pdf

Now in paperback, an updated edition of a visually stunning documentary record and critical account of Tehching Hsieh's epic performance works. In the vibrant downtown Manhattan art scene of the late 1970s and early 1980s, the Taiwanese-American artist Tehching Hsieh made a series of extraordinary performance art works. Between September 1978 and July 1986, Hsieh realized five separate one-year-long performance pieces in which he conformed to simple but highly restrictive rules throughout each entire year. Through the course of these lifeworks, Hsieh moved from a year of solitary confinement in a sealed cell to a year in which he punched a worker's time clock in his studio every hour on the hour to a year spent living without shelter in Manhattan to a year in which he was tied by an eight-foot rope to the artist Linda Montano and finally to a year of total abstention from all art activities and influences. In 1986 Hsieh announced that he would spend the next thirteen years making art but not showing it publicly. When this “final” lifework—an immense act of self-affirmation and self-erasure—came to a close at the turn of the millennium, he tersely and enigmatically said that during this time he had simply kept himself alive. After years of near-invisibility, Hsieh collaborated with the British writer and curator Adrian Heathfield to create this meticulous and visually arresting documentary record of the complete body of Tehching Hsieh's performance projects from 1978 to 1999. This milestone volume is now available again, in a paperback edition featuring the full text and all the illustrations in the hardcover, with an updated list of Hsieh's exhibitions. Copublished with the Live Art Development Agency, London.

Author : Amelia Jones,Adrian Heathfield
Publisher : Intellect (UK)
Page : 700 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1841505447

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Perform, Repeat, Record by Amelia Jones,Adrian Heathfield Pdf

Bringing together contributors from dance, theatre, visual studies, and art history, this title addresses the conundrum of how live art is positioned within history.

Author : Illuminations
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 0826463703

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Art Now by Illuminations Pdf

Art Now is a series of interview-based profiles of prominent contemporary visual artists, bringing together the work of Howard Hodgkin, Antony Gormley, Rachel Whiteread, Julian Opie, Mark Wallinger, and 2001 Turner Prize winner Martin Creed.Sandy Nairne's introductory essay offers a comprehensive overview of the state of contemporary art, highlighting how the six artists manifest some of the best recent and emerging art in Britain today. Each interview presents a thought-provoking survey of the artist's work and ideas and offers a rare and personal insight into their influences and creative processes. Art Now is an excellent introduction to some of today's most important contemporary artists and provides an accessible way to engage with the pleasures and puzzles of art in the twenty-first century.

Author : Cath Lambert
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317393894

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The Live Art of Sociology by Cath Lambert Pdf

The Live Art of Sociology attends to the importance of ‘the live’ in contemporary social and political life. Taking existing work in live sociology as a starting point, this book considers some of its aspirations through unique empirical investigations. Queer and feminist theory and methods are also employed in exploring the challenges of researching live experiences and temporalities. With case study examples ranging from the work of live body artists to experiments in curating sociological research, Lambert successfully demonstrates the diverse ways in which art can provide the aesthetic and affective conditions for social and political disruption. By emphasising the political importance of how people, knowledges, materials, emotions and senses are configured and reconfigured, The Live Art of Sociology asserts a creative and vital role for sociology in not only representing but also generating social realities and political possibilities. Putting aesthetics at the heart of contemporary sociology and making a strong case for a renewed sociological aesthetics, this volume will appeal to undergraduate and postgraduate students as well as postdoctoral researchers and academics interested in fields such as Sociology, Cultural Studies, Art and Visual Culture, Gender and Sexuality Studies and Leisure Studies. It will also be of interest to creative practitioners.

Author : Maria Chatzichristodoulou
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-06
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781474257725

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Live Art in the UK by Maria Chatzichristodoulou Pdf

Since entering the performance lexicon in the 1970s, the term Live Art has been used to describe a diverse but interrelated array of performance practices and approaches. This volume offers a contextual and critical introduction to the scene of contemporary Live Art in Britain. Focusing on key artists whose prolific body of work has been vital to the development of contemporary practice, this collection studies the landscape of Live Art in the UK today and illuminates its origins, as well as particular concerns and aesthetics. The introduction to the volume situates Live Art in relation to other areas of artistic practice and explores the form as a British phenomenon. It considers questions of cultural specificity, financial and institutional support, and social engagement, by tracing the work and impact of key organizations on the UK scene: the Live Art Development Agency, SPILL Festival of Performance and Compass Live Art. Across three sections, leading scholars offer case studies exploring the practice of key artists Tim Etchells, Marisa Carnesky, Marcia Farquhar, Franko B, Martin O'Brien, Oreet Ashery, David Hoyle, Jordan McKenzie, and Cosey Fanni Tutti.