Marina Abramovic's legendary performances have earned her the title of 'The Grandmother of Performance Art'. Her extreme and challenging pieces focus on the relationship between the performer and their audience, and the role of the body and the mind in performance art.

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Marina Abramovic's legendary performances have earned her the title of 'The Grandmother of Performance Art'. Her extreme and challenging pieces focus on the relationship between the performer and their audience, and the role of the body and the mind in performance art.

This work reporduces the lyrics of the performances and compositions of Diamanda Galas. Galas uses her voice to evoke the profound suffering and isolation of the human condition as it confronts AIDS and insanity.

Traces two centuries of Kathak, from the colonial nautch dance to classical Kathak under nationalism and post-colonialism to transnationalism and globalization. Reorienting dance to focus on the lived experiences of dancers from a wide cross-section of society, this book narrates the history of Kathak from baijis and tawaifs to the global stage.

Born in Sarajevo in former Yugoslavia in 1967, Maja Bajevic has become one of the most significant artists to emerge from the former Socialist Republic. This work presents an illustrated survey of the work of Maja Bajevic, one of Eastern Europe's most important contemporary artists.

From the rise of Senator Joseph McCarthy to the fall of the Twin Towers, this work channels a lost universe of lives otherwise erased.

Performing the Body/Performing the Text explores the new performativity in art theory and practice, examining ways of rethinking processess in visual culture.

Bobby Baker is one of popular performance artists and has toured the globe with her explorations of Daily Life . This book aims to bring together an account of her career as an artist, from her first sculptures at Central St Martins in 1970s to her work, How to Live and Diary Drawings - with commentary by reviewers and academic practitioners.

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Performance art was finally recognized as an art form in its own right in the 1970s. This work situates feminist performance art in the US and Canada in the social context of the feminist movement. Highlighting the important contributions of women artists, it shows that artists drew from feminist politics to create works.

The performance artist Joanna Frueh has emerged as a wildly original voice in feminist art. This illustrated book includes sixteen colour photographs; images from Joanna in the Desert, a 2006 collaboration between Frueh and the photographer Jill O'Bryan; and several photographs of Frueh performing.

Celebration Realife. Born in Paris, and today living in Dijon and London, Chaimowicz is known as an artist invested in the intimate and personal, whose work draws from literature, pop music, and a trademark queer romanticism. The installation piece that is the focus of this book is his best-known work: a glittery, music-infused environment halfway between a David Bowie stage set and Marcel ...

Presents ethnographies from Mexico, Peru, Brazil, Canada, and the United States and draws on a range of approaches - from Theater, Comparative Literature, Sociology, Anthropology, History, English, and Performance Studies. This book reveals the faith-based cultural practice in the 21st Century.