What Is Performance Art?: Australian Perspectives
- ISBN-10
- 0909952930
- ISBN-13
- 9780909952938
- Category
- Performance art
- Pages
- 432
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2018-10
- Publisher
- Power Publications Incorporated (FL)
- Authors
- Adam Geczy, Mimi Kelly
Description
What is Performance Art? Australian Perspectives' brings together texts from Australia?s most prominent theorists in the field together with major exponents of performance art themselves, creating a critical archive, and dialogue, that stand as central document of Australian performance art?s first fifty years. 0Performance art in Australia now has a long and rich history that until only recently has been situated within the larger narrative of Australian art. It is a practice that has engaged with important issues of the self and being and remains at the epicentre of expressions of gender, politics and the nature of communication itself.0Transient in nature, performance art is also mobile, economical and elastic. Unlike other Australian traditions (such as landscape painting), there has never been a question of what is distinctively Australian about it. This is because Australian performance art has always inhabited an international framework. But still, it is worth asking: what is the nature and contribution of Australian performance art from the 1970s until the present day?
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