Fifty Key Performance Artists Book Launch
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Fifty Key Performance Artists, coedited by T. Nikki Cesare Schotzko and Adriana Disman, is a critical introduction to some of the most influential and innovative performance artists from the emergence of the genre post-World War II to the present, whose work has largely been underrecognized and underacknowledged within an English-language context.
The collection compiles an international and innovative index of artists who, primarily through body art and live performance, have shaped the possibilities of the field. It includes artists whose now-canonical work defined performance art through feminist body art, interventionist public art, and durational performance, as well as new artists who are redefining the genre through emerging technologies and an explicit alignment with social activism. Artists indexed include Arahmaiani, Rebecca Belmore, Rocío Boliver, Lorenza Böttner, Disabled Avant-Garde, Va-Bene Elikem Fiatsi aka crazinisT artist, Emily Jacir, Lee Wen, Lorraine O’Grady, Graciela Ovejero Postigo, Tracey Rose, Seiji Shimoda, Leafā Wilson aka Olga Krause and Marcía X. Each entry considers the artist’s body of work in its historical, cultural, and political context, and a map at the end provides additional artists whose work is artistically and historically relational to those included.
"Fifty Key Performance Artists brings to the fore influential and often overlooked artists from around the world. Clear, engaging, comprehensive, and thoughtfully organised, this book will be a vital resource for students, scholars, and anyone interested in how performance art shapes cultures, identities, and activisms, in the past and in the present."
— Dominic Johnson, author of Unlimited Action: The Performance of Extremity in the 1970s.