Performing Ground [electronic resource] : Space, Camouflage and the Art of Blending In /
Levin, L.author.
Performing Ground explores camouflage as a performance practice, arguing that the act of blending into one's environment is central to the ways we negotiate our identities through space. The book offers a critically rich investigation of how the performative practice of camouflage renders the politics of space, power, and gender (in)visible.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; 1 World Pictures ; Becoming picture ; Performing ground ; The politics of (back)ground ; Camouflage in practice ; 2 Camouflage Acts ; Space, mimicry, photography ; Surrealism and reciprocal topographies: Janieta Eyre's photo portraits ; Blending into the domestic picture ; Transnational geometries: camouflage as mass ornament ; 3 Performing Ground ; Environments past ; Environments present ; Queering environmental history: Gob Squad's Kitchen ; 4 The Environmental Unconscious
Site- specificity: putting the environment back into environmental performance Letting space have its say ; Gendering the environmental unconscious ; Beneath space's white skin: Rebecca Belmore's site- specific actions ; Expanded ecological horizons ; 5 Embedded Performance ; Camouflage and embeddedness ; Urban mimicry: Liu Bolin and Desiree Palmen ; Ethnographer-chameleons: Oreet Ashery and Nikki S. Lee ; Prankster-chameleons: Sacha Baron Cohen and The Yes Men ; Towards a consciousness of camouflage ; 6 Epilogue: Situating the Self ; Nation and situation
Gendering geopolitical space: Violeta Luna's Parting Memories Notes ; Bibliography ; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Performing Ground explores camouflage as a performance practice, arguing that the act of blending into one's environment is central to the ways we negotiate our identities through space. The book offers a critically rich investigation of how the performative practice of camouflage renders the politics of space, power, and gender (in)visible.
Performing arts.
Theater.
Arts.
Theater—History.
Performing Arts.
Theatre and Performance Studies.
Arts.
Theatre History.