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Performance Art: Sandrine Schaefer suggestions

Specific Articles/Chapters from Books

Bernadette Wegenstein “The Avant-Garde as Precursor of 1960s Wounds” (pg. 43-52) and “Hypermediated Performances or 1990’s Extensions” (pg. 66-73) Getting Under the Skin Body and Media Theory, MIT Press, 2006 (ebook)
John Cage “Experimental Music” 1958 pg. 48-52 
Chance,
 Whitechapel Gallery, MIT Press, 2010
Miwon Kwon “Genealogy of Site Specificity” pg. 11-31 
One Place After Another Site-Specific Art and Locational Identity, MIT Press, 2004

Allan Kaprow “Notes on Elimination of the Audience” 1966 pg. 102-104 
Participation, MIT Press, Whitechapel, 2006
Robert Morris  “The Present Tense of Space” 1978 pg. 027 
Situation Whitechapel, MIT Press, 2009 (at Emerson, Wentworth)
Georges Perec “The Street” 1974 pg 102-108 
The Everyday
Whitechapel, MIT Press, 2008
Martha Buskirk Chapter 5 “The Contingent Object,” 
The Contingent Object of Contemporary Art
 MIT Press, 2003

Guy Debord “Chapter VI Spectacular Time” pg 109-127 The Society of the SpectacleBlack &Red Press, 1983
David Joselit Chapter on “Fluxes” pg. 117-128 
American Art Since 1945
Thames and Hudson Press, 2003

Judith Butler "Gender Trouble-Feminism and the Subversion of Identity" in Judith ButlerRoutledge Press, 1999 (ebook)

 

BOOKS

Amelia Groom (editor), Time, Whitechapel MIT Press, 2013
Philip Auslander, 
Liveness: Performance in a Mediatized Culture, Routledge Press, 1999 (at Emerson)
Valerie Cassel Oliver, 
Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art, Distributed Art Publishers, Inc., 2013
Thompson and Sholette (editors), Interventionists: users manual for the creative disruption of everyday life, MASS MoCA, 2004
Gluzman and Yankelevich (editors), Emergency index an annual document of performance practice. Vol. 4 Documenting 2011, Ugly Duckling Presse, 2012


 

FILMS

The Artist is Present Marina Abramovic, HBO Documentary Films, 2012

ONLINE JOURNALS/PLATFORMS

Mobius Artists Group, Boston-based experimental artist group and presenting organization www.Mobius.org 
Living gallery, contemporary art online, archive and directory www.Livinggallery.info 
Total Art Journal, peer reviewed art journal http://totalartjournal.com/ 
Contemporary Performance, social networking site for performance-based artists
http://contemporaryperformance.org 

FADO, artist run center in Toronto http://www.performanceart.ca
Ubu Web, online archive www.ubuweb.com 
The Black Kit (Boris Nieslony’s archive online)
http://asa.de/projects/asastart.htm