Performing endurance : art and politics since 1960 / Lara Shalson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shalson, Lara, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Performance art.

Endurance art.

Arts--Political aspects--History--20th century.

Arts.

Arts--Political aspects--History--21st century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 206 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2018.

Summary:

In Performing Endurance, Lara Shalson offers a new way of understanding acts of endurance in art and political contexts. Examining a range of performances from the 1960s to the present, including influential performance art works by Marina Abramović, Chris Burden, Tehching Hsieh, Linda Montano, Yoko Ono, and others, as well as protest actions from the lunch counter sit-ins of the US civil rights movement to protest camps in the twenty-first century, this book provides a formal account of endurance and illuminates its ethical and political significance. Endurance, Shalson argues, raises vital questions about what it means to exist as a body that both acts and is acted upon, from ethical questions about how we respond to the bodies of others to political questions about how we live in relation to institutions that shape life in fundamental ways. In addition, Performing Endurance rethinks how performance itself endures over time.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title page

Imprints page

Dedication

Contents

List of Figures

Acknowledgments

Introduction

The Form of Endurance

Enduring Bodies

Enduring/Living

Encountering Endurance

1 Enduring Objecthood

Beyond Voyeurism

Incorporating Viewers

Persistent Objects

Cut Piece, 1964-

Rhythm 0, 1974

2 Enduring Protests

The Greensboro Lunch Counter Sit-Ins

Performing Protest

The Psychodynamics of Segregation

Objecting Bodies

Enduring Disidentifications

On the Possibility for Radical Engagements

3 Enduring Life

Framing Lifetimes

Doing Time - "Cage Piece"

Spending Time - "Time Clock Piece"

Passing Time - "Outdoor Piece"

Biding Time - "Rope Piece"

Keeping Time - "No Art Piece" and "Thirteen Year Plan"

4 Enduring Documents

The Discomforts of Documents

Re-Documentation

Following Instructions

Performing Photographs

The Endurance of the Pose

Still in the Future

Continuing Narratives

After Performance

Epilogue

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 11 Oct 2018).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-108-58938-3

1-108-55100-9

1-108-63429-X

OCLC:

1060524722