Is the Living Body the Last Thing Left Alive? The New Performance Turn, Its Histories and Its Institutions
Is the Living Body the Last Thing Left Alive? The New Performance Turn, Its Histories and Its Institutions
Contents 7
Introduction
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COSMIN COSTINAȘ AND ANA JANEVSKI
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Dance, Choreography, and the Visual: Elements for a Contemporary Imagination
Dance Me to the End of History: Art and Performance between History and Memory BORIS BUDEN
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Firenze Lai
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The Body as a Strategy for Action in Taiwan’s Cultural Scene: Three Stages of Development and Practice, before and after the Martial Law
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Performance Art vs. Dance: Professionalism, De-Skilling, and Linguistic Virtuosity
Obscene Acts of the Porn-Art Movement: Protest, Counterculture, and the Performance of Freedom in Public Space
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Game Changing: Performance in the Permanent Collection
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RUTH NOACK
Emily Roysdon 179
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Transforming Grief into Action
XAVIER LE ROY
I Am Not Here to Entertain You: Invaluable Performances of Blackness
INTI GUERRERO IN CONVERSATION
Rabih Mroué
Notes on Exhibition Works Involving Live Human Actions Performed in Public
Victoria Lomasko
ADRIENNE EDWARDS
MIGUEL A. LÓPEZ, NELLY RICHARD, AND
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Eisa Jocson
Performing Horizontally: On a Meeting of Performance Polemics and Performance Anxiety
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CATHERINE WOOD
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Monetization of Artistic Labour
FERNANDA NOGUEIRA
Belkis Ayón
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Manuel Pelmuș
Body against Classism
Critical Body Performing PATRICK D. FLORES
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Dancing Marx DAVID RIFF
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Cruelty
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Contributors
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Image Credits
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Acknowledgements
GORAN SERGEJ PRISTAŠ
CLAIRE BISHOP
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Yangjiang Group
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MÅRTEN SPÅNGBERG
AMY CHENG
BOJANA CVEJIĆ
Simryn Gill
Tetsuya Ishida 144
European Contemporary Dance, before Its Recent Arrival in the Museum
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Split Realities and the Changing Measurements of Radical Approaches to Art in China CAROL YINGHUA LU
ANDRÉ LEPECKI
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The Athame and Other Malay Weapons: A Postwar Performance and Productive Power SIMON SOON
ANTHONY YUNG
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Gauri Gill