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    Performing for the camera

    Baker, Simon, Performing for the camera, Tate Publishing, London 2016 Abstract The book examines three distinct strands of photographic practice: the documentation of performance works, by artists such as Yves Klein, Yayoi Kusama and Merce Cunningham; how performers and photographers have worked collaboratively, such as Nadar and the mime artist Charles Deburau, or Eikoh Hosoe and the choreographer Tatsumi Hijikata; and the work of photographers who have a strong performative element to their practice, such as Charles Ray, Boris Mikhailov and Erwin Wurm. It further explores the construction of self-identity in the work of artists such as Samuel Fosso, Lee Friedlander, Tomoko Sawada, Cindy Sherman and Andy Warhol, as well…

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    Reactivations: Essays on Performance and Its Documentation

    Auslander, Philip, Reactivations: Essays on Performance and Its Documentation, University of Michigan Press, 2018 Abstract Most people agree that witnessing a live performance is not the same as seeing it on screen; however, most of the performances we experience are in recorded forms. Some aver that the recorded form of a performance necessarily distorts it or betrays it, focusing on the relationship between the original event and its recorded versions. By contrast, Reactivations focuses on how the audience experiences the performance, as opposed to its documentation. How does a spectator access and experience a performance from its documentation? What is the value of performance documentation? The book treats performance documentation…

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    Elisabete Mileu: performances 1981-82

    Barbosa, Manoel, Elisabete Mileu: performances 1981-82, Symposium International d’Art Performance de Lyon (5th : 1983), 1983 Abstract Exhibiton catalogue realised for the Symposium International d’Art Performance de Lyon (5th : 1983) Other data Number of pages: 8 ISBN: ISSN: DOI: URL: https://www.si.edu/object/siris_sil_722697 Language: EN key: LYIZZECI

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    Histories of Performance Documentation : Museum, Artistic, and Scholarly Practices

    Giannachi, Gabriella; Westerman, Jonah; Westerman, Jonah, Histories of Performance Documentation : Museum, Artistic, and Scholarly Practices, Routledge, 2017 Abstract Histories of Performance Documentation traces the many ways in which museums have approached performance works from the 1960s onwards, considering the unique challenges of documenting live events. From hybrid and interactive arts, to games and virtual and mixed reality performance, this collection investigates the burgeoning role of the performative in museum displays. Gabriella Giannachi and Jonah Westerman bring together interviews and essays by leading curators, conservators, artists and scholars from institutions including MoMA, Tate, SFMOMA and the Whitney, to examine a range of interdisciplinary practices that have influenced the field of…

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    Performance archives/archives of performance / edited by Gunhild Borggreen, Rune Gade.

    Borggreen, Gunhild, editor; Gade, Rune, 1964- editor, Performance archives/archives of performance / edited by Gunhild Borggreen, Rune Gade., Copenhagen : Museum Tusculanum Press, University of Copenhagen, 2013., 2013 Abstract Interdisciplinary and global in scope, Performing Archives/Archives of Performance investigates the relationship between live performance and recordings, bringing new—and productive—tensions between permanence and ephemerality into relief. Advancing theoretical understandings and analyzing specific artworks, performances, and archives, the contributors formulate new ways of understanding history, memory, enactment, and intervention, offering major contributions to ongoing critical discussions on performance and its disappearance and reproduction. Other data Number of pages: ISBN: ISSN: DOI: URL: Language: key: VDGBKED3

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