The Methuen Drama Companion to Performance Art

Bertie Ferdman is Professor of Theatre at Borough Manhattan Community College and consortium faculty at The Graduate Center, CUNY, USA. Recent publications include Off Sites: Contemporary Performance beyond Site-Specific (2018) and Curating Dramaturgies: How Dramaturgy and Curating are Intersecting in the Contemporary Arts (2021), co-edited with Peter Eckersall. Jovana Stokic is a Belgrade-born, New York-based art historian and curator. She is currently on the faculty of the MFA Art Practice, School of Visual Arts, New York, USA, and New York University Steinhardt Department of Art and Art Professions. She holds a PhD from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University.

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Part I – Introduction

Squaring Performance Art
Bertie Ferdman (City University of New York, USA) and Jovana Stokic (New York University, USA)

Part II – Issues and Problems: Future Directions in Performance Art Research

Reruns or New Turns
Jovana Stokic (New York University, USA)

Cross-disciplinarity and Antitheatrical Historiographies of Performance Art
Bertie Ferdman (City University of New York, USA)

Part III – Essays

1. How Performance Art Makes History: Artists’ Auto-histories of Happenings and Fluxus in the 1960s
Heike Roms (University of Exeter, UK)

2. Queer Performativity: A Critical Genealogy of a Politics of Doing in Art Practice
Amelia Jones (University of Southern California, USA)

3. Taking Up Instructions for Becoming
Rebecca Schneider (Brown University, USA)

4. Caring for Black Corporealities: Experimental Black Performance
Thomas deFrantz (Duke University, USA)

5. Between Contemporary Art and Performance: Dramaturgy and Flow
Peter Eckersall (City University of New York, USA)

6. Acting Ethical: Performance Art Goes Public
Malik Gaines (New York University, USA)

7. Compassionate Acts:Performance as Radical Care
Nikki Cesare Schotzko (University of Toronto, Canada)

8. The Labor of the Artist, Feminist Practices, and Troubles with Infrastructure
Bojana Kunst (University Giessen, Germany)

9. Gestural Study
Sven Lütticken (Vrije Universiteit, Netherlands)

10. Stomaching It: Black Performance Art and Penetrating the Inscrutable Body
Danielle Bainbridge (Northwestern, USA)

11. Performative Bodies and Artists/Spectators: The Case of Radical Latina and Latin American Women Artists in Exhibition
Cecilia Fajardo-Hill (Independent Scholar, Venezuela)

12. Framing Live Art
Lois Keidan (Live Art Development Agency, UK)

13. From the Institution of Performance to the Performance of Institutions
Jonah Westerman (State University of New York, USA) and Catherine Wood (Tate Modern, UK)

14. Performance in the Age of the Technosphere
Chris Salter (Concordia University, Canada)

Part IV- Annotated Bibliography and Resources
Eylül Fidan Akinci (Ghent University, Belgium)

Index