Includes bibliographical references (pages 379-398) and index.
Contents:
Performance at Hull-House: Museum, Microfiche, and Historiography -- Performing Show and Tell: On the Disciplinary Problems of Mixed-Media Practice -- Theatricality's Proper Objects: Genealogies of Performance and Gender Theory -- When "Everything Counts": Experimental Performance and Performance Historiography -- Resist Singularity -- Rhetoric in Ruins: Performing Literature and Performance Studies -- Living Takes Many Forms: Creative Time -- Life Politics/Life Aesthetics: Environmental Performance in red, black & GREEN: a blues -- Elmgreen & Dragset's Theatrical Turn -- Performativity and Its Addressee: Walker Art Collection -- Just-in-Time: Performance and the Aesthetics of Precarity -- Seven Ways to Look at Windows: Harrell Fletcher -- Countercarnival in a Performance-Friendly World: En Mas' -- Utopian Operating Systems: Theaster Gates's Way of Working -- Trusting Publics: Paul Ramírez Jonas -- The Way We Perform Now -- Drama and Other Time-Based Arts -- Assemblies: Public Participation, Heteronomous Worlds -- Epilogue: Essential Labor and Proximate Performance.
Summary:
"Shannon Jackson explores a range of disciplinary, institutional, and political puzzles that impinge on the social and aesthetic practice of performance by bringing together twenty essential essays from across her career"-- Provided by publisher.
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