Performing Pedagogy
Subtitle: Towards an Art of Politics (Suny Series, Interruptions, Border Testimonyies and Critical Discourses)
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: October 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780791443248
Subjects: Performing Arts; Psychology; Methodology; Education / Teaching; Teaching Methods & Materials - Arts & Humanities; Philosophy & Social Aspects; Performing Arts/Dance; Performance art; Curricula; Experimental Methods; Study and teaching; Theater - History & Criticism; General; United States; Artists; Arts
Description: "Performing Pedagogy examines the theory and practice of performance art as an art of politics. It discusses the different ways in which performance artists use memory and cultural history to critique dominant cultural assumptions, to construct identity, and to attain political agency.

In doing so, Garoian argues, performance artists like Rachel Rosenthal, Guillermo Gomez-Pena, Robbie McCauley, Suzanne Lacy, and the performance art collective Goat Island engage in the practice of critical citizenship and radical forms of democracy that have significant implications for teaching in the schools.

Finally, Garoian contextualizes performance art pedagogy within his own cultural work to illustrate how his own memory and cultural history have informed his production of performance art works and his classroom teaching practices."--BOOK JACKET.