From Power Publications:
Please join us in Melbourne for the launch of our latest publication
What is Performance Art? Australian Perspectives
Edited by Adam Geczy and Mimi Kelly
LAUNCH AND RECEPTION
The book will be launched by Edward Colless Head of Critical and Theoretical Studies, Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne. This event will bring together a dynamic discussion chaired by Dr Edward Colless, with Adam Geczy, Sean Lowry, Mimi Kelly, Hannah Mathews, Jill Orr and Mark Shorter. Light refreshments will follow the panel discussion.
Register to preorder your copy to pick up at the launch (20% off the RRP)
ABOUT THE PUBLICATION
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?
CONTENTS
Introduction: What is Performance Art?
by Adam Geczy
Part I Histories
Imaginary, Symbolic, Real: A Short History of Performance
by Rex Butler
‘To Give Lip’: Why Art Writing went Hand-in-Hand with the Appearance of Performance Art in Australia
by Heather Barker and Charles Green
Performance Art—Live and on Screen
by Anne Marsh
Encounters with Performance/Art: Then and Now
by Sarah Miller
Space—Actant—Event: A Performance Art Criterion
by Laini Burton
Performance Disturbance: Performance Art and Sculpture
by Charles Green
Performativity and Indigenous Art
by Ian McLean
Part II Theories
‘A Space within Time Itself’: The Time Signatures of Performance Art
by Edward Scheer
Performance as Populism/Populism as Performance
by Rex Butler
Performance Art and Performing Gender
by Adam Geczy
Falling into Place: How Performance Reflects the Ontology of Happening
by Robert Nelson
Still Fraught, Still Relevant: Performing Through Popular Culture
by Mimi Kelly
Part III Interpretations
Ken Unsworth: An Epilogue
by Brad Buckley
Heartlines: Memory and Desire
by Mary Knights
Performance as Component
by John Conomos
Ob-scenic World: Romaine Moreton’s Ragtag
by Maurice O’Riordan
When Very Little Happens: Durational Performances by Fiona McGregor and Tony Schwensen
by Blair French
White Girls Can’t Hump: Richard Bell’s Culture Jamming and Performance Politics
by Janelle Evans
Framing Movement
by Hannah Matthews
Part IV Testimonials
Some Thoughts on What Performance Art Is
by Jill Orr
Performance and Filming Fresh Skin like a Baby(2010): A Reflection on the Creation of the Work and Possible Future Display
by Mike Parr
Space, Place and In Between
by Tess de Quincey
And if She Contacts Me Again She Will Know the Meaning of Pain
by Deej Fabyc
360-Degree Self-Portrait: About Turn
by Julie Rrap
Insert Token to Play
by Blak Douglas
Unsettling Suite
by S.J. Norman
I Stand In: Intimate Transactions for the Forgotten, Misplaced, Unrecovered and Removed
by Julie Vulcan
Enduring Parallels
by Ineke Dane
Murray River Punch: The Drink, the Paste, the Soup
by Bonita Ely
Disclosure and Fittingsat Sydney University, 1972
by Tim Johnson
catchingafallingknife.com: The Deep Play of Financial and Cultural Speculation
by Michael Goldberg
Dr Nobody
by Paul Mumme
Every Artist Remembered (EAR)
by Agatha Gothe-Snape
Renny Kodgers, Anal Scroll
by Mark Shorter
Gift/Back: A Participatory Performance Project by Unreasonable Adults—A Remixed Memory from Writings
by Jason Sweeney and Julie Vulcan
The Ghosts of Nothing: The World of a Work of Performance-Framed-as-Art
by Sean Lowry and Ilmar Taimre
Selected Works
by Peter Kennedy
In the Event of Amnesia the City Will Recall
by Denis Beaubois
KEY FEATURES
Paperback RRP $39.99 AUD
ISBN 978-0-909952-93-8
130 illustrations
432 pp
PUBLISHED BY
Cover image: Maria Hassabi, Intermission, 2013. Installation view, Framed Movements, curated by Hannah Mathews, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne. Photograph: Andrew Curtis.
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