Subversive expectations : performance art and paratheater in New York, 1976-85 /
The rise of performance art as chronicled by renowned critic Sally Banes. Her approach to the complex matrix of art, community, and culture draws on histories and theories of painting, photography, dance, theater, and folklore. Her vivid descriptions and provocative interpretations fill a gap in the...
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Ann Arbor :
University of Michigan Press,
[1998], ©1998
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Table of Contents:
- Up against the Perceptual Wall (Michael Kirby)
- Einstein on the Beach (Robert Wilson)
- Roots and Rituals (Geoff Hendricks / Grommets)
- About Quarry, about Meredith Monk
- Concrete in the Flesh (Jared Bark)
- Pumping Air (Charlemagne Palestine)
- New Mysteries (Theodora Skipitares)
- Within You/Without You (Robert Ashley)
- Historical Immaterialism (Ann Wilson)
- Double Vision (Yvonne Rainer)
- Engineering Images (Sylvia Whitman)
- Flu as Fashion and Art as Business (Richard Foreman)
- A Family Affair (Festival of Saint Anthony)
- All the World's a Sideshow (Roy Faudree / No Theater Company)
- Hats and Hierophanies (Robert Kushner / International Society for Krishna Consciousness)
- Subway Stops (Lawrence Kucharz)
- Performance Art in California ... (Women's Performance Art)
- Kroesen's American Dream (Jill Kroesen)
- Monk's Chant (Meredith Monk)
- The Squirming Point (Eleanor Antin)
- Multiple Exposure (Jill Kroesen)
- Take Tea and See (Masters of the Tea Ceremony Society of Urasenke)
- Unearthing Symbols (Meredith Monk)
- Dressing (Pat Oleszko)
- First Intermedia Art Festival
- Reading the Circus (Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey)
- Consciousness Razing (Women's West Coast Performance)
- Mother Wore a Tractor (Early Soviet Fashion Design)
- Not Just Another Pretty Opera (Victory over the Sun)
- Men Together/Bloolips
- As, I, Like, It (Tim Miller)
- Let There Be Dark (Eric Bogosian)
- In the Still of the Night (Chris Burden)
- The Tradition of the Old (Bob Berky / Fred Garbo Garver and Michael Moschen / David Warrilow)
- In Search of Illumination (Ann Magnuson)
- The Long and the Short of it (Robert Longo / Dan Hurlin)
- More than Human (Bruce Schwartz / Manteo Sicilian Marionette Theater)
- The Politics of Performance and the Performance of Politics (Dinosaur / Marshall Reese, David Bowman and Nora Ligorano / Tim Miller)
- Making Worlds Alone (Martha Rosler / Stephanie Skura / Jeff McMahon)
- Dream Time in a Warehouse (Robert Whitman)
- The Text of the Matter (Bradley Wester / Peter Stickland / Fiona Templeton)
- Barefoot in the Gym (Anne Bogart)
- Truth in Advertising (John Malpede / Eric Bogosian)
- A Couple of Grays Sitting around Talking (Spalding Gray)
- Zaloom Vrooms (Paul Zaloom)
- Music to Play By (David Van Tieghem / Performances from the 1960s)
- Laurie Anderson's Disjointed "States"
- Motions: Eccentric and Burning (Pooh Kaye / (Joan Jonas)
- Sentimental Journeys (Peter Rose / Vanalyne Green)
- Body Talk (Luigi Ontani / Cheri Gaulke)
- Stuart Sherman's Good Time
- Housebroken (Nightfire Theater)
- Strong and Sexy (Trix Rosen)
- New Primitive Mysteries (Ellen Fisher / Diane Torr)
- Thought for Food (Paul Schmidt)
- Bits and Pieces of Bogosian (Eric Bogosian)
- Dario Fo's Theater of Blasphemy
- Bucking Broncos in the Bronx (Urban Western Rodeo)
- When Church Picnics Make Sense (Bread and Puppet Theater)
- Fat Sunday Fantasies (Dimanche Gras Show)
- Hard Knocks and Culture Shock (Yoshiko Chuma and the School of Hard Knocks)
- Unruly Dolls and Ritz Rockers (Harry Kipper / Karen Finley / Breaker Contest)
- A Good Friend Is Hard to Find & the Way of What? (Tony Conrad)
- American Dreams (Anne Bogart / Fred Holland)
- As the Egg Turns (Rachel Rosenthal)
- Diaspora Dance: Sacred to Doo-Wop (A Traveling Jewish Theater)
- Murder to Go
- Man in Shadow (Robert Whitman / Sylvia Palacios)
- Canny Cantata/Peaked Paik (I Giullari di Piazza / Nam June Paik)
- Performers against Intervention (Artists Call against U.S. Intervention in Central America / Deep inside Porn Stars)
- Sportin' Solos and Makin' Whoopi (John Malpede / Whoopi Goldberg)
- The World According to Chong (Ping Chong)
- In Love, in Murder (Eric Bogosian and Michael Zwack / Black Light Theater of Prague)
- Jerkman's Progress (Jill Kroesen)
- Theory, Praxis - and Vodka (Komar and Melamid)
- Zaloom Society (Paul Zaloom)
- One Flew over South Pacific (Anne Bogart)
- India's Theater of Cruelty (Kerala Kalamandalam)
- What Becomes a Legend Most? (Amateur Night at the Apollo)
- Moon over Loisaida (Revenge of the Full Moon Show)
- Rent Out-of-Control (Jeff Weiss)
- Disposing of a Cliche (Mierle Laderman Ukeles)
- Joe Lowery Logs On
- East Side Confidential
- 300 Puppets Set Skipitares Free (Theodora Skipitares)
- Pencilvania or Bussed (Beth Lapides / Kaylynn Sullivan)
- Felines at the Finish Line (The Cat Show)
- Bloodsucker (Ping Chong)
- Junk Alchemy (Jack Smith)
- Up the Kitchen!
- Up against the Perceptual Wall (Michael Kirby)
- Einstein on the Beach (Robert Wilson)
- Roots and Rituals (Geoff Hendricks / Grommets)
- About Quarry, about Meredith Monk
- Concrete in the Flesh (Jared Bark)
- Pumping Air (Charlemagne Palestine)
- New Mysteries (Theodora Skipitares)
- Within You/Without You (Robert Ashley)
- Historical Immaterialism (Ann Wilson)
- Double Vision (Yvonne Rainer)
- Engineering Images (Sylvia Whitman)
- Flu as Fashion and Art as Business (Richard Foreman)
- A Family Affair (Festival of Saint Anthony)
- All the World's a Sideshow (Roy Faudree / No Theater Company)
- Hats and Hierophanies (Robert Kushner / International Society for Krishna Consciousness)
- Subway Stops (Lawrence Kucharz)
- Performance Art in California ... (Women's Performance Art)
- Kroesen's American Dream (Jill Kroesen)
- Monk's Chant (Meredith Monk)
- The Squirming Point (Eleanor Antin)
- Multiple Exposure (Jill Kroesen)
- Up against the Perceptual Wall (Michael Kirby)
- Einstein on the Beach (Robert Wilson)
- Roots and Rituals (Geoff Hendricks / Grommets)
- About Quarry, about Meredith Monk
- Concrete in the Flesh (Jared Bark)
- Pumping Air (Charlemagne Palestine)
- New Mysteries (Theodora Skipitares)
- Within You/Without You (Robert Ashley)
- Historical Immaterialism (Ann Wilson)
- Double Vision (Yvonne Rainer)
- Engineering Images (Sylvia Whitman)
- Flu as Fashion and Art as Business (Richard Foreman)
- A Family Affair (Festival of Saint Anthony)
- All the World's a Sideshow (Roy Faudree / No Theater Company)
- Hats and Hierophanies (Robert Kushner / International Society for Krishna Consciousness)
- Subway Stops (Lawrence Kucharz)
- Making Worlds Alone (Martha Rosler / Stephanie Skura / Jeff McMahon)
- Dream Time in a Warehouse (Robert Whitman)
- The Text of the Matter (Bradley Wester / Peter Stickland / Fiona Templeton)
- Barefoot in the Gym (Anne Bogart)
- Truth in Advertising (John Malpede / Eric Bogosian)
- A Couple of Grays Sitting around Talking (Spalding Gray)
- Zaloom Vrooms (Paul Zaloom)
- Music to Play By (David Van Tieghem / Performances from the 1960s)
- Laurie Anderson's Disjointed "States"
- Motions: Eccentric and Burning (Pooh Kaye / (Joan Jonas)
- Sentimental Journeys (Peter Rose / Vanalyne Green)
- Body Talk (Luigi Ontani / Cheri Gaulke)
- Stuart Sherman's Good Time
- Housebroken (Nightfire Theater)
- Strong and Sexy (Trix Rosen)
- New Primitive Mysteries (Ellen Fisher / Diane Torr)
- Thought for Food (Paul Schmidt)
- Bits and Pieces of Bogosian (Eric Bogosian)
- Dario Fo's Theater of Blasphemy
- Bucking Broncos in the Bronx (Urban Western Rodeo)
- Take Tea and See (Masters of the Tea Ceremony Society of Urasenke)
- Unearthing Symbols (Meredith Monk)
- Dressing (Pat Oleszko)
- First Intermedia Art Festival
- Reading the Circus (Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey)
- Consciousness Razing (Women's West Coast Performance)
- Mother Wore a Tractor (Early Soviet Fashion Design)
- Not Just Another Pretty Opera (Victory over the Sun)
- Men Together/Bloolips
- As, I, Like, It (Tim Miller)
- Let There Be Dark (Eric Bogosian)
- In the Still of the Night (Chris Burden)
- The Tradition of the Old (Bob Berky / Fred Garbo Garver and Michael Moschen / David Warrilow)
- In Search of Illumination (Ann Magnuson)
- The Long and the Short of it (Robert Longo / Dan Hurlin)
- More than Human (Bruce Schwartz / Manteo Sicilian Marionette Theater)
- The Politics of Performance and the Performance of Politics (Dinosaur / Marshall Reese, David Bowman and Nora Ligorano / Tim Miller)
- Theory, Praxis - and Vodka (Komar and Melamid)
- Zaloom Society (Paul Zaloom)
- One Flew over South Pacific (Anne Bogart)
- India's Theater of Cruelty (Kerala Kalamandalam)
- What Becomes a Legend Most? (Amateur Night at the Apollo)
- Moon over Loisaida (Revenge of the Full Moon Show)
- Rent Out-of-Control (Jeff Weiss)
- Disposing of a Cliche (Mierle Laderman Ukeles)
- Joe Lowery Logs On
- East Side Confidential
- 300 Puppets Set Skipitares Free (Theodora Skipitares)
- Pencilvania or Bussed (Beth Lapides / Kaylynn Sullivan)
- Felines at the Finish Line (The Cat Show)
- Bloodsucker (Ping Chong)
- Junk Alchemy (Jack Smith)
- Up the Kitchen!
- When Church Picnics Make Sense (Bread and Puppet Theater)
- Fat Sunday Fantasies (Dimanche Gras Show)
- Hard Knocks and Culture Shock (Yoshiko Chuma and the School of Hard Knocks)
- Unruly Dolls and Ritz Rockers (Harry Kipper / Karen Finley / Breaker Contest)
- A Good Friend Is Hard to Find & the Way of What? (Tony Conrad)
- American Dreams (Anne Bogart / Fred Holland)
- As the Egg Turns (Rachel Rosenthal)
- Diaspora Dance: Sacred to Doo-Wop (A Traveling Jewish Theater)
- Murder to Go
- Man in Shadow (Robert Whitman / Sylvia Palacios)
- Canny Cantata/Peaked Paik (I Giullari di Piazza / Nam June Paik)
- Performers against Intervention (Artists Call against U.S. Intervention in Central America / Deep inside Porn Stars)
- Sportin' Solos and Makin' Whoopi (John Malpede / Whoopi Goldberg)
- The World According to Chong (Ping Chong)
- In Love, in Murder (Eric Bogosian and Michael Zwack / Black Light Theater of Prague)
- Jerkman's Progress (Jill Kroesen)