Out of Now(Reprint) The Lifeworks of Tehching Hsieh (The MIT Press) by AdrianHeathfield, Tehching Hsieh Paperback, 382 Pages, Published 2015 by The Mit Press ISBN-13: 978-0-262-52821-4, ISBN: 0-262-52821-5
"In the vibrant downtown Manhattan art scene of the late 1970s and early 1980s, the Taiwanese-American artist Tehching Hsieh made a series of extraordinary performance art works. Between September 1978 and July 1986, Hsieh realized five separate one-year-long performance pieces in which he conformed to simple but highly restrictive rules throughout each entire year. Through ..."
"Live, or performance, art is one of the most controversial and hotly discussed areas of art practice to emerge in the second half of the twentieth century. The history of live art is one of challenge to audiences, art traditions and cultural values. With elements of performance now part of the practice of many of today's best-known artists, and boundaries between visual art, theatre and live art more and more blurred, this collection is ..."
" Bringing together contributors from dance, theater, visual studies, and art history, Perform, Repeat, Record addresses the conundrum of how live art is positioned within history. Set apart from other art forms in that it may never be performed in precisely the same way twice, ephemeral artwork exists both at the time of its staging and long after in the memories of its spectators and their testimonies, as well as in material objects, ..."
"An absurdist provocateur and brilliant interventionist, Pope.L is a seditious force in contemporary American artPope.L is a consummate thinker and provocateur whose practice across multiple mediums―including painting, drawing, installation, sculpture, theater and video―utilizes abjection, humor, endurance, language and absurdity to confront and undermine rigid systems of belief. Published in conjunction with an exhibition at the Museum ..."
"Using "ordinary" movements, the Judson Dance Theater stripped dance of its theatrical conventionsTaking its name from the Judson Memorial Church, a socially engaged Protestant congregation in New York's Greenwich Village, Judson Dance Theater was organized as a series of open workshops from which its participants developed performances. Redefining the kinds of movement that could count as dance, the Judson participants―Trisha Brown, Luc ..."
"During her short career, Ana Mendieta (1948–85) created a body of work that was provocative and radically inventive. Using her own body, together with elemental materials--blood, fire, earth and water--she created visceral tableaux and ephemeral "earth-body" sculptures exploring life, death, rebirth and spiritual transformation. Much of her art also expresses the pain and rupture of cultural displacement and exile (Mendieta was born in ..."
Out of Now(1st Edition) The Lifeworks of Tehching Hsieh by AdrianHeathfield, Tehching Hsieh, Ga Zhang Hardcover, 384 Pages, Published 2008 by The Mit Press ISBN-13: 978-0-262-01255-3, ISBN: 0-262-01255-3
"In the vibrant downtown Manhattan art scene of the late 1970s and early 1980s, the Taiwanese-American artist Tehching Hsieh made a series of extraordinary performance art works. Between September 1978 and July 1986, Hsieh realized five separate one-year-long performance pieces in which he conformed to simple but highly restrictive rules throughout each entire year. Through ..."
Live(1st Edition) Art and Performance by AdrianHeathfield, Hugo Glendinning Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 2004 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-0-415-97239-0, ISBN: 0-415-97239-6
"The openness through flesh: the two leaves of my body and the leaves of the
visible world . ... In the pregnant body, the continuum includes two bodies: two
hearts, two brains, sometimes two vaginas and other times (even more strangely)
one vagina and one penis. ... It is a deeply uncanny feeling, but one that Freud
had not experienced and seemingly had no interest in. ... In Nam June Paik's
epochal 1973 paean to the possibilities ..."
"Bringing together contributors from dance, theatre, visual studies, and art history, this title addresses the conundrum of how live art is positioned within history."
"Since the early 1990s Michael Landy has built a reputation as one of the most exciting and challenging artists working in Britain. Until Semi-detached, he was best known for Break Down 2001, in which he systematically and publicly destroyed all of his possessions. Created at Tate Britain, Semi-detached is a life-sized replica of Landy's family home in Essex, inspired by the artist's father, a former tunnel miner who was injured in an in ..."
"At lat: a truly original take on the overhyped Millennium Fourteen artists, including Brian Catling, Bobby Baker and Graeme Miller, marked the personal and political resonances of this transition in a series of extraordinary performances, here transformed in to works for the page. These idiosyncratic actions deal with unspoken and invisible aspects of contemporary experiences like anonymity, disability, rumors and forgotten times. Featu ..."
"Shattered anatomies is a maverick intervention into the debates on the status and imaging of the body in Western culture and the historical preservation of transient performances"--Container."