Social works
Subtitle: performing art, supporting publics
By: Shannon Jackson
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 299
ISBN-13: 9780415486002; 9780415486019; 9780203852897
Subjects: Arts audiences; Arts and society; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 272-286) and index.
Table of contents: title: Performance, aesthetics and support; title: Quality time : social practice debates in contemporary art; title: High maintenance : the sanitization ethics of Mierle Laderman Ukeles; title: Staged management : theatricality and institutional critique; title: Tech support : labour in the global theatres of the Builders Association and Rimini Protokoll; title: Welfare melancholia : the public works of Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset; title: Unfederated theatre : Paul Chan waiting in New Orleans; title: Epilogue : dependent care.