What is performance art? : Australian perspectives / edited by Adam Geczy, Mimi Kelly.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kelly, Mimi, editor.

Geczy, Adam, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Performance art--Australia.

Performance art.

Australia.

Physical Description:

424 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

University of Sydney, Australia : Power Publications, 2018.

Summary:

What is Performance Art? Australian Perspectives brings together texts from Australia's most prominent theorists in the field together with major exponents of performance art themselves, creating a critical archive, and dialogue, that stand as central document of Australian performance art's first fifty years. Performance art in Australia now has a long and rich history that until only recently has been situated within the larger narrative of Australian art. It is a practice that has engaged with important issues of the self and being and remains at the epicentre of expressions of gender, politics and the nature of communication itself. Transient in nature, performance art is also mobile, economical and elastic. Unlike other Australian traditions (such as landscape painting), there has never been a question of what is distinctively Australian about it. This is because Australian performance art has always inhabited an international framework. But still, it is worth asking: what is the nature and contribution of Australian performance art from the 1970s until the present day?

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0909952930

9780909952938

OCLC:

1047762849