1st Edition

A Sourcebook of Performance Labor Activators, Activists, Archives, All

By Joey Orr Copyright 2023
196 Pages 14 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

196 Pages 14 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

196 Pages 14 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

A Sourcebook of Performance Labor presents the views and experiences of collaborators in other artists’ works. This book reorients well-known works of contemporary performance and social practice around the workers who have shaped, enacted, and supported them. It emerges from perspectives on maintenance, care, affective labor, and the knowledges created and preserved through gesture and... Read more

Acknowledgments

An Introduction to the Sourcebook

Part I: Asad Raza and Tino Sehgal

Chapter 1: Rafay Rashid

Chapter 2: Asad Raza

Chapter 3: Louise Höjer

Part II: Ernesto Pujol

Chapter 4: Joy Whalen

Chapter 5: Kate Harding

Part III: Suzanne Lacy

Chapter 6: Regina Mouton

Chapter 7: Carol Leigh

Part IV: Francis Alӱs

Chapter 8: Richard Perales

Chapter 9: Rafael Ortega

Part V: Dread Scott

Chapter 10: Jordan Rome

Chapter 11: Cephus X. and Beatrice X. Johnson (Uncle Bobby and Aunt B)

Part VI: Tania Bruguera

Chapter 12: Rudy Gerson

Chapter 13: Kyle Carrero Lopez and Rudy Gerson

Index

Biography

Joey Orr is Deputy Director and Chief of Curatorial Affairs at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago