1st Edition

Performance Art Education and Practice

By Angeliki Avgitidou Copyright 2023
236 Pages 35 Color & 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

236 Pages 35 Color & 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

236 Pages 35 Color & 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Performance Art: Education and Practice is an introduction to performance art through activities and practice prompts that are framed by seminal moments in the history of the medium as well as the current theoretical discussions surrounding performance. The book begins by introducing the terminology related to performance art and its early history. The basic elements of performance, including... Read more

Introduction 1. Introduction to performance  2. Materials in performance: objects  3. Body, gender, identity  4. Performing the self  5. The augmented body  6. Body and space  7. Performance and the everyday  8. Performing in public space  9. Performing radical interventions  10. Nature, bodies, environment  11. Beyond the live event

Biography

Angeliki Avgitidou is an artist working in performance and public space. She studied as an architect (BArch Hons, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki) and as an artist (MA, PhD, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design). Her work has been shown at occasions that include the Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art, its Performance Festival, the International Biennial of Performance Deformes, the Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space, and the 15th International Exhibition of Architecture of the Biennale of Venice. Angeliki is the author of Performance Art: The Basics. A Beginner’s Course Guide (2020). She is Associate Professor at the School of Fine Arts of the University of Western Macedonia. Angeliki has taught postgraduate courses at the University of Western Macedonia, the Hellenic Open University, and the Transart Institute.