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The Persistence of Dance
There is a category of choreographic practice with a lineage stretching back to mid-20th century North America that has re-emerged since the early 1990s: dance as a contemporary art medium. Such work belongs as much to the gallery as does video art or sculpture and is distinct from both performance art and its history as well as from theater-based dance. The Persistence of Dance: Choreography as Concept and Material in Contemporary Art clarifies the continuities and differences between the second-wave dance avant-garde in the 1950s‒1970s and the third-wave starting in the 1990s. Through close readings of key artists such as Maria Hassabi, Sarah Michelson, Boris Charmatz, Meg Stuart, Philip...
Archive Everything
How the archive evolved to include new technologies, practices, and media, and how it became the apparatus through which we map the everyday. In Archive Everything, Gabriella Giannachi traces the evolution of the archive into the apparatus through which we map the everyday. The archive, traditionally a body of documents or a site for the preservation of documents, changed over the centuries to encompass, often concurrently, a broad but interrelated number of practices not traditionally considered as archival. Archives now consist of not only documents and sites but also artworks, installations, museums, social media platforms, and mediated and mixed reality environments. Giannachi tracks the...
Post-choreography
This book sheds light on the practice of French choreographer Jérôme Bel, who is active in the fields of performing arts and contemporary art. Shuntaro Yoshida examines a case study of collective creation involving the choreographer and a group of amateur workshop participants. The focus is on Atelier Danse et Voix (Dance and Voice Workshop) (2014) and workshops held with local diverse participants in Brussels, Venice, and Munich after the cancellation of the Dance and Voice Workshop. This study elucidates Bel’s creative method by exploring the relationship between choreographer and participants in a situation where the typical framework of actors has been expanded. The focus of the case...
Merce Cunningham
One of the most influential choreographers of the twentieth century, Merce Cunningham is known for introducing chance to dance. Far too often, however, accounts of Cunningham’s work have neglected its full scope, focusing on his collaborations with the visionary composer John Cage or insisting that randomness was the singular goal of his choreography. In this book, the first dedicated to the complete arc of Cunningham’s career, Carrie Noland brings new insight to this transformative artist’s philosophy and work, providing a fresh perspective on his artistic process while exploring aspects of his choreographic practice never studied before. Examining a rich and previously unseen archive...
The Methuen Drama Companion to Performance Art
The Methuen Drama Companion to Performance Art offers a comprehensive guide to the major issues and interdisciplinary debates concerning performance in art contexts that have developed over the last decade. It understands 'performance art' as an institutional, cultural, and economic phenomenon rather than as a label or object. Following the ever-increasing institutionalization and mainstreaming of performance and its methods of display, representation, and mediation in the wider cultural sphere, the book's chapters identify a marked change in the economies and labor practices surrounding performance art and its institutional curating and presenting practices, reflective of an advanced stage ...
Fifty Contemporary Choreographers
Fifty Contemporary Choreographers is a unique and authoritative guide to the lives and work of prominent living contemporary choreographers; this third edition includes many new names in the field of choreography. Representing a wide range of dance genres and styles, each entry locates the individual in the context of contemporary dance and explores their impact. Those studied include: Kyle Abraham Germaine Acogny William Forsythe Marco Goeke Akram Khan Wayne McGregor Crystal Pite Frances Rings Hofesh Shechter Sasha Waltz With an updated introduction by Deborah Jowitt and further reading and references throughout, this text is an invaluable resource for all students and critics of dance and all those interested in the everchanging world and variety of contemporary choreography.
Wie kommt Tanz ins Museum?
Tanz gewinnt aktuell an Relevanz im Ausstellungskontext. Tänzer*innen bewegen sich durch originär für Kunstobjekte geschaffene Säle, Choreograf*innen bespielen Museen und werden zu Ausstellungsgestalter*innen. Mit Blick auf das Beziehungsgeflecht von Tanz, bildender Kunst, Museum und Ausstellung von Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts bis zur Gegenwart zeigt Katharina de Andrade Ruiz auf, wie die Tanzkunst in den Ausstellungskontext gelangt. Im Fokus ihrer Analyse stehen choreografische Arbeiten von Xavier Le Roy, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker sowie Boris Charmatz, die als Beispiele für Live-Tanz-Ausstellungen, Fusionen von zeitgenössischer Tanzkunst und dem Präsentationsformat Ausstellung dienen.
A Conspiracy of Prophets
The last thing Lukas Bessarion wants is to warn the crusaders…yet if he refuses, a bloodthirsty demon will seize power. Syria, 1098: After a gruelling siege, the crusaders finally capture Antioch—but within days, the besiegers become the besieged. Clawing for survival in a doomed city, the Franks turn to a new power for help: the mad prophet, Peter Bartholomew. Plagued by his own unwanted visions, Lukas Bessarion knows the vicious Bartholomew is controlled by the demon Lilith, now growing in power. But none of the Franks—from naïve ladies to murderous counts and princes obsessed with political rivalry—seem worth saving. Worse, if Lukas accepts his destiny as a prophet, he’ll need ...
Hans Ulrich Obrist
Transcripts of interviews by Hans Ulrich Obrist with architects, artists, curators, film-makers, musicians, philosophers, social theorists and urbanists.
Le temps qui reste
On nous l’annonce comme imminente et inéluctable : une catastrophe lente à venir. On nous l’annonce depuis si longtemps. Mais est-ce pour nous alerter ou pour nous habituer ? Il est grand temps d’en décider. Car on peut craindre, ou espérer, un événement qui, lorsqu’il advient n’est pas le surgissement de l’inconnu mais la poursuite de ce que l’on connaissait très bien et qu’on n’a pas su éviter. On se rend compte alors, mais trop tard, qu’à force de l’attendre, on n’a pas compris qu’il était déjà advenu.
