Responding to Site
Subtitle: The Performance Work of Marilyn Arsem
Contributors: Loveless, Natalie
Publisher: Intellect Books Ltd
Published: 2020
Place of publication: Bristol
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 314
ISBN-13: 9781789380996
Description: An edited volume that explores the work of the innovative, experimental and internationally acclaimed performance artist Marilyn Arsem, with 200 images. She is an important contributor to the international performance community through her site-specific, one-to-one performances in alternative spaces which carry a political or feminist message.
Notes: Description based upon print version of record.
Table of contents: title: Cover; title: Half-title; title: Copyright; title: Title; title: Contents; title: Acknowledgments; title: Introduction: Responding to Site; title: Performance Photographs 1987-1999; title: Section One: Duration and Action; title: On Time at the Museum; title: Salt, Stones, and Stars; title: With the Others; title: The Lightness and Darkness of Becoming-Marilyn; title: Performance Photographs 2003-2009; title: Section Two: Site and History; title: "Lux Balcanica est umbra Orientis" Marilyn Arsem's Balkan Performances; title: Impossible Totalities: Political Performance as Palimpsest; title: Dropping the Frame: Orpheus to Red in Woods; title: Performance as/of Shamanism and Mediumship: Writing Ada; title: Performance Photographs 2010-2013; title: Section Three: Performance and Pedagogy; title: Some Thoughts on Teaching Performance Art, in Five Parts; title: Dialogues with Absence: Reflections on Time and If to Drift; title: Documenting Arsem; title: "Reminding Me Always that Nothing Remains"-Marilyn Arsem's Performance and Pedagogy; title: Performance Photographs 2013-2015; title: Afterword: Durational Forms and Pedagogical Encounters; title: Performance Photographs 2015-2019; title: Appendix:Arsem's Performances 1967-2019; title: Author Biographies; title: Further Reading; title: Index