Is the Living Body the Last Thing Left Alive?

Is the Living Body the Last Thing Left Alive?

The New Performance Turn, Its Histories and Its Institutions

Is the Living Body the Last Thing Left Alive?

The New Performance Turn, Its Histories and Its Institutions

Contents 7

Introduction

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COSMIN COSTINAȘ AND ANA JANEVSKI

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Dance, Choreography, and the Visual: Elements for a Contemporary Imagination

Dance Me to the End of History: Art and Performance between History and Memory BORIS BUDEN

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Firenze Lai

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The Body as a Strategy for Action in Taiwan’s Cultural Scene: Three Stages of Development and Practice, before and after the Martial Law

103

Performance Art vs. Dance: Professionalism, De-Skilling, and Linguistic Virtuosity

Obscene Acts of the Porn-Art Movement: Protest, Counterculture, and the Performance of Freedom in Public Space

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Game Changing: Performance in the Permanent Collection

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RUTH NOACK

Emily Roysdon 179

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Transforming Grief into Action

XAVIER LE ROY

I Am Not Here to Entertain You: Invaluable Performances of Blackness

INTI GUERRERO IN CONVERSATION

Rabih Mroué

Notes on Exhibition Works Involving Live Human Actions Performed in Public

Victoria Lomasko

ADRIENNE EDWARDS

MIGUEL A. LÓPEZ, NELLY RICHARD, AND

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Eisa Jocson

Performing Horizontally: On a Meeting of Performance Polemics and Performance Anxiety

169

CATHERINE WOOD

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Monetization of Artistic Labour

FERNANDA NOGUEIRA

Belkis Ayón

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Manuel Pelmuș

Body against Classism

Critical Body Performing PATRICK D. FLORES

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Dancing Marx DAVID RIFF

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Cruelty

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Contributors

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Image Credits

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Acknowledgements

GORAN SERGEJ PRISTAŠ

CLAIRE BISHOP

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Yangjiang Group

199

MÅRTEN SPÅNGBERG

AMY CHENG

BOJANA CVEJIĆ

Simryn Gill

Tetsuya Ishida 144

European Contemporary Dance, before Its Recent Arrival in the Museum

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Split Realities and the Changing Measurements of Radical Approaches to Art in China CAROL YINGHUA LU

ANDRÉ LEPECKI

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The Athame and Other Malay Weapons: A Postwar Performance and Productive Power SIMON SOON

ANTHONY YUNG

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Gauri Gill