Performativity in the Gallery Staging Interactive Encounters

• Other Authors: Bullen, J. Barrie (Editor), Remes, Outi (Editor), MacCulloch, Laura (Editor), Leino, Marika (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Bern Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften 2013, c2014
• Edition: 1st, New ed.
• Series: Cultural Interactions: Studies in the Relationship between the Arts 31
• Subjects: prezentace uměleckého díla; dějiny umění; muzea umění; presentation of art; history of art; art museums; elektronické knihy; electronic books

This book coincides with an increase in the programming of live art elements in many galleries and museums. Traditional art history has, however, been wary of live art's interdisciplinarity and its tendency to encourage increased formal and conceptual risk taking. Time-based performances have c...

Table of Contents:

• Contents: Mary Oliver: Lies, Lies, It's All Lies I Tell You! - Pip Laurenson/Vivian van Saaze: Collecting Performance-Based Art: New Challenges and Shifting Perspectives - Maria Chatzichristodoulou [aka Maria X]: Exhibiting Performance, Staging Experience - Beryl Graham: Histories of Interaction and Participation: Critical Systems from New Media Art - Eva Fotiadi: From Event to Archive and to Event Again - Kaija Kaitavuori: Participation in the Gallery: (Re)negotiating Contracts - Amy Mechowski: Playing Ball: Friday Late, Performativity and the Victoria and Albert Museum - Lee Campbell: Heckler, Performance, Participation and Politeness: Using Performance Art as a Tool to Explore the Liminal Space between Art and Theatre and its Capacity for Confrontation - Leah Lovett: Crowd Control: Encountering Art's Audiences - Outi Remes/Cally Trench: At Play: Curatorial Notes about Playfulness - Sophia Yadong Hao: Attending the Gallery - Helen Sloan: Like Shadows: A Celebration of Shyness - Claudia Marion Stemberger: South African Live Art and the Representation of its Residue: On Gabrielle Goliath's Stumbling Block.