1st Edition

Performance Art in Portugal

By Cláudia Madeira Copyright 2024
204 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

204 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

204 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book explores histories which have only recently been rediscovered by artists and researchers. This study explores the history of Portuguese performance art, in its various "speculative" and "performative" forms. The author approaches this relationship with the re-emergence and centrality of these (semi-)peripheral histories at an international level, whilst identifying some of their... Read more

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter 1. A Critical Conceptualization from Hybridism

Chapter 2. From Proto-Performances to Performance Art

Chapter 3. Performance: A Disciplinarily (IN)Operative Concept

Chapter 4. From Hybridity to Performance Meta-Hybridism

Chapter 5. Conclusion: Art of Performance as the Art of the (IN)Communicability of History

Bibliography

Index

Biography

Cláudia Madeira is an assistant professor and researcher at Instituto de Comunicação da NOVA (NOVA FCSH). She also collaborates at the CET/FLUL as a researcher in the Theatre and Image Research Group.