Responding to site : the performance work of Marilyn Arsem / edited by Jennie Klein and Natalie Loveless.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Arsem, Marilyn, artist.

Contributor:

Klein, Jennie, editor.

Loveless, Natalie, editor.

Standardized Title:

Works. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arsem, Marilyn.

Performance art--United States.

Performance art.

Women artists.

Performance artists.

United States.

Performance artists--21st century.

Women artists--United States--21st century.

Genre:

Catalogs.

Physical Description:

309 pages : color illustrations ; 21 x 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Bristol ; Chicago, IL : Intellect, 2020.

Summary:

"This book focuses on the performance art of Marilyn Arsem, an internationally acclaimed performance artist known for her innovative and experimental work. Arsem's work addresses women's history and myth-making capacities, the potency of site and geography, the idea of the audience as witnesses, and the intimacy of one-to-one works. One of the most prolific performance artists working in the United States today, Arsem performs carefully choreographed durational actions that are developed site-responsively and range from deceptively simple interventions to elaborately orchestrated actions. This edited volume seeks to extend Arsem's legacy beyond the audiences of her live performances and enter her work into the lexicon of the art world. Accompanied by 200 images, this book will be of interest to scholars and students of performance studies, feminist performance, feminist art history, and performance history. It will also contribute to the history of alternative spaces and galleries that is only now being written."--back cover.

Contents:

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Responding to site / Jennie Klein

Performance photographs 1987-1999

Section one: Duration and action. On time at the museum / Lucian O'Connor

Salt, stones, and stars / Jeffery Byrd

With the others / Sandrine Schaefer

The lightness and darkness of becoming Marilyn / Paul Couillard

Performance photographs 2003-2009

Section two: Site and history. "Lux Balcanica est umbra Orientis" Marilyn Arsem's Balkan performances / Kristine Stiles

Impossible totalities: Political performance as palimpsest / El Putnam

Dropping the frame: Orpheus to red in woods / David P. Miller

Performance as/of shamanism and mediumship: Writing Ada / John Dennis Anderson

Performance photographs 2012-2013

Section three: Performance and pedagogy. Some thoughts on teaching performance art, in five parts / Marilyn Arsem

Dialogues with absence: Reflections on time and if to drift / Sandra Johnston

Documenting Arsem / Michael Woolley

"Reminding me always that nothing remains"

Marilyn Arsem's performance and pedagogy / Kathy O'Dell

Performance photographs 2013-2015

Afterword: Durational forms and pedagogic encounters / Natalie Loveless

Performance photographs 2015-2019

Appendix: Arsem's performances 1967-2019

Author biographies.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 290-300) and index.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9781789380972

1789380979

OCLC:

1173058553