Bringing together contributors from dance, theater, visual studies, and art history, Perform, Repeat, Record addresses the conundrum of how live art is positioned within history. and#160;Set apart from other art forms in that it may never be performed in precisely the same way twice, ephemeral artwork exists both at the time of its staging and long after in the memories of its spectators and their testimonies, as well as in material objects, visual media, and text, all of which offer new critical possibilities. Among the artists, theorists, and historians who contributed to this volume are Marina Abramovic, Guillermo Gandoacute;mez-Peandntilde;a, Rebecca Schneider, Boris Groys, Jane Blocker, Carolee Schneemann, Tehching Hsieh, Orlan, Tilda Swinton, and Jean-Luc Nancy.
and#8220;One of the first scholarly texts to attempt to address how live art, as an ephemeral, often subversive, embodied act, becomes incorporated into history. . . An important kicking off point in what is a burgeoning arena of discourse.and#8221;
IntroductionsThe Now and the Has Been: Paradoxes of Live Art in History
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Then Again
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Theories and Histories
Introduction
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1. The Performativity of Performance Documentation
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2. Dead Mannequin Walking: Fluxus and the Politics of Reception
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3. The Viral Ontology of Performance
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4. Can Photographs Make It So? Repeated Outbreaks of VALIE EXPORT's Genital Panic Since 1969
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5. Macular Degeneration: Some Peculiar Aspects of Performance Art Documentation
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6. History and Precariousness: In Search of a Performative Historiography
and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160; Eleonora Fabiand#227;o
7. Performance Remains
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8. Not as Before, but Simply: Again
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9. The Prosthetic Present Tense: Documenting Chinese Time-based Art
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10. Progressive Striptease
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11. Repetition: A Skin which Unravels
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12. Art in the Age of Biopolitics: From Artwork to Art Documentation
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13. The Interstices of History
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An Unofficial Timeline of Socialist and Post-Socialist Performance
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Documents
Introduction
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14. A Text on 20 years with 66 footnotes
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15. Faith Wilding, Waiting and Wait-With
16. Lynn Hershman and/as Roberta Breitmore
17. We Are Formatted Memories
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18. Franko B and Kamal Ackarie, Don't Leave Me This Way
19. Make Me Stop Smoking
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20. The Personal Evolution of the Performance Object (Or, What to Do with Leftovers)
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21. Cai Yuan and J.J. Xi, Mad for Real
22. Hayley Newman, MiniFlux
23. Daniel Joseph Martinez, Call Me Ishmael or The Fully Enlightened Earth Radiates Disaster Triumphant
24. Multiple Journeys: A Performance Chronology
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25. Attending to Anthony McCall's Long Film for Ambient Light
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26. ReCut Project
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27. Assuming a Migrant Woman's Identity
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28. Barbara Smith, Intimations of Immortality
29. Santiago Sierra and the "Contexts" of History
30. Reconstruction2
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31. Documents of Chinese Time-based Art: Three Impressions from Three Fragments
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32. Both Sitting Duet and Cheap Lecture
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33. Aftermath: The Performance / Installation Nexus
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Timeline of Ideas: Live Art in (Art) History, A Primarily European-US-based Trajectory of Debates and Exhibitions Relating to Performance Documentation and Re-enactments
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Dialogues
Introduction
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34. Interior Squirrel and the Vicissitudes of History
and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160; Carolee Schneemann and Amelia Jones
35. I Just Go in Life
and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160; Tehching Hsieh and Adrian Heathfield
36. The Maybe: Modes of Performance and the "Live"
and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160; Tilda Swinton and Joanna Scanlan
37. Photography as a Performative Act
and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160; Shezad Dawood and Amelia Jones
38. Do it Again, Do it Again (Turn Around, Go Back)
and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160; Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard, with Andrew Renton
39. Touching Remains
and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160; Janine Antoni and Adrian Heathfield
40. Reverse Martyrologies
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41. The Live Artist as Archaeologist
and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160; Marina Abramoviand#263; and Amelia Jones
42. Every House Has a Door
and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160; Lin Hixson and Mathew Goulish
43. Alliterations
and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160; Mathilde Monnier and Jean-Luc Nancy
and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160;and#160; Introduction and Translation: Noand#233;mie Solomon
44. Intangibles
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Acknowledgements
Author Biographies
Index