On edge : performance at the end of the twentieth century / C. Carr.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Carr, Cynthia, 1950-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Performance art--United States.

Performance art.

Arts, American--20th century.

Arts, American.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (394 pages)

Edition:

Rev. ed.

Place of Publication:

Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The state of performance art in the 80s and 90s, documented by the form's leading critic.

Contents:

Cover; On Edge; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Leaving Terra Firma; Foreword to the Revised Edition; In Extremis; Roped: A Saga of Art in Everyday Life Linda Montano, Tehching Hsieh; Before and After Science Stelarc; This is Only a Test Chris Burden; A Great Wall Marina Abramovic, Ulay; Underground; The Hot Bottom: Art and Artifice in the East Village; Country Clubbing 8BC's Pig Phest; To Thine Own Self Be True Ethyl Eichelberger; Sex Gods, Ekstatic Women John Sex, Nina Hagen, Dancenoise

The Revolution That Won't Be Televised Michael Smith, Karen Finley, Harry Kipper, et al.; R.I.P. 8BC The end of the never-ending talent show; Art Crimes Cinema of Transgression, Outlaw Parties, et al.; Loisada Talking Pictures Ela Troyano; The Queer Frontier Holly Hughes, Carmelita Tropicana; Disenchanted Evening Donna Henes; Big Bang Theory Poppo Shiraishi; Bad Company at the Love Club Karen Finley, Carlo McCormick; Help Thou Mine Unbelief The Church of the Little Green Man; Nightclubbing The Tompkins Square Riot; The Triumph of Neoism The Millionth Apartment Festival

Don't Make Me Over Slaves of New York, Darius James; Just Revolting Missing Foundation; Regenerate Art; Unspeakable Practices, Unnatural Acts: The Taboo Art of Karen Finley; The Lady Is a Dick: The Dyke Noir Theater of Holly Hughes; Body Beautiful FrankMoore; Lydia Lunch Faces the Void; Learning to Love the Monster Jon Moritsugu, Johanna Went; The Kipper Kids in Middle Age; Life is a Killer Joe Coleman; Is That You? Fiona Templeton; Deconstructing Dixie Laurie Carlos, Jessica Hagedorn, Robbie McCauley; A Crash of Symbols Sherman Fleming, Kristine Stiles; Two Birds with One Stone Dancenoise

A Public Cervix Announcement Annie Sprinkle, the Smut Fest; Revisions of Excess The V-Girls, Blue Man Group; An Artist Retreats from Rage Rafael Montañez Ortiz; Beauties and Beasts Salley May, Ms. Make-Believe, David Lynch; Radical Shriek Diamanda Galas; Simulacra Stops Here The Border Arts Workshop /Taller de Arte Fronterizo; Redicovering America Guillermo Gómez-Peña; Talk Show Robbie McCauley, Jeannie Hutchins; A Cinema Against the Vérités Shu Lea Cheang; Wired; Am I a Camera? John Jesurun; Am I Living in a Box? Ann Magnuson; The Vanguard Moves to Melrose Place Mel Chin and the GALA Committee

The Heart of the Web Nina Sobell, Emily Hartzell; Call Her Ishmael Laurie Anderson; War on Art; An NEA Timeline (Just the Lowlights); Portrait of an Artist in the Age of AIDS David Wojnarowicz; The Sexual Politics of Censorship Targeted Artists and the Wrathful Dads; With Mapplethorpe in Cincinnati ""The Perfect Moment"" on Trial; The Adventures of Andre Serrano in Pursuit of the White Supremacists; Gross Indecency: The NEA Four Decision; Fin-de-Millenium; The Bohemian Diaspora; In the Discomfort Zone William Pope.L; Dancing in the Streets Yoshiko Chuma; The Pain Artist Bob Flanagan; The World According to Jack Smith

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

0-8195-7242-X

OCLC:

828869809