Reactivations : essays on performance and its documentation / Philip Auslander.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Auslander, Philip, 1956- author.

Contributor:

Lisa Beth Deutsch Memorial Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Performing arts--Technique.

Performing arts.

Performing arts--Information resources.

Performing arts--Audiences.

Information resources.

Physical Description:

137 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2018]

Summary:

Most of the performance we experience are in recorded forms. Some people aver that the recorded form necessarily distorts or betrays the live performance. Rather than focus on the relationship between the original event and its recorded versions, Reactivations explores how audiences access and experience a performance from its documentation. The book treats performance documentation as a specific discursive use of media that arose in the middle of the 20th century alongside such forms of performance as the Happening and that is different, both discursively and as a practice, from traditional theater and dance photography. Philip Auslander explores the phenomenal relationship between the spectator who experiences the performance from the document and the document itself. The document is not merely a secondary iteration of the original event, but a vehicle that gives us meaningful access to the performance as an artistic work. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction

The performativity of performance documentation

Reactivation: the complex temporality of performance documentation

Surrogate performances: performance documentation and the New York avant-garde, circa 1964-74

Conclusion: karaoke performance art.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Lisa Beth Deutsch Memorial Book Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Auslander, Philip, 1956- Reactivations.

ISBN:

9780472053858

047205385X

9780472073856

0472073850

OCLC:

1012344903