Author

Publication

2014 - Palgrave Macmillan, Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, England

Language

English

Word Count

60,750 words, Guess

Page Count

243 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-139781137274243
  • ISBN-101137274247
  • Library of Congress Control Number2014019756
  • OCLC Control Number873725916
  • Better World Books9781137274243
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Classifications

  • DDC709.05/1
  • LCCN72.C36 L49 2014
  • LCCPN1560-1590PN2000-PN

Description

"What stands out when we blend in? Performing Ground is the first book to explore camouflage as a performance practice, arguing that the act of blending into one's environment is central to the ways we negotiate our identities in and through space. Laura Levin tracks contemporary performances of camouflage through a variety of forms - performative photography; environmental, immersive, and site-specific performance; activist infiltration; and solo artworks - and rejects the conventional dismissal of blending in as an abdication of self. Instead, she contemplates the empowering political possibilities of 'performing ground,' of human bodies intermingling with the material world, while directly engaging with the reality that women and other marginalized persons are often relegated to the background and associated with the properties of space. Performing Ground engages these questions through the works of some of today's most exciting performance artists such as Rebecca Belmore, Liu Bolin, Janieta Eyre, and Violeta Luna, and groups like Gob Squad, Punchdrunk, The Yes Men, and Urban Mimics"--

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  • Performing groundPalgrave Macmillan2014

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