1st Edition
Critical Live Art Contemporary Histories of Performance in the UK
Foreword: Live Art Performance Art Body Art Carolee Schneemann
Introduction: Live Art in the UK Dominic Johnson
1. Marginalia: Towards a Historiography of Live Art Dominic Johnson
2. Towards a Prehistory of Live Art in the UK Heike Roms and Rebecca Edwards
3. The Freaks’ Roll Call: Live Art and the Arts Council, 1968-73 Graham Saunders
4. Positive Surrender: An Interview with BREYER P-ORRIDGE Dominic Johnson
5. The Common Turn in Performance Gavin Butt
6. Duckie’s Gay Shame: Critiquing Pride and Selling Shame in Club Performance Catherine Silverstone
7. Frightening the Horses: An Interview with Neil Bartlett Lois Keidan
8. Spokeswomen and Posterpeople: Disability, Advocacy and Live Art Brian Lobel
9. Skin Deep: Female Flesh in UK Live Art since 1999 Gianna Bouchard
10. The Skin of the Theatre: An Interview with Julia Bardsley Dominic Johnson
11. On the Endurance of Theatre in Live Art Lara Shalson
12. Come Closer: Confessions of Intimate Spectators in One to One Performance Deirdre Heddon, Helen Iball and Rachel Zerihan
Biography
Dominic Johnson is Senior Lecturer in the School of English and Drama at Queen Mary, University of London, UK. Previous publications include Franko B: Blinded by Love (2006) and Manuel Vason: Encounters (2007).
