• Performed Photography

    Between Action and Image: Performance as ‘Inframedium’

    Westerman, Jonah, «Between Action and Image: Performance as ‘Inframedium’», Tate, 2015. https://www.tate.org.uk/research/features/between-action-and-image Abstract What would it mean to think of performance as a medium? Or rather, what would it do to our usual modes of articulating performance art, its meanings and its histories? Other data Number of pages: ISBN: ISSN: DOI: URL: https://www.tate.org.uk/research/features/between-action-and-image Language: EN key: HH3LCMMZ

  • Stage Photography

    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…