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Ventriloquism, Performance, and Contemporary Art book cover

1st Edition

Ventriloquism, Performance, and Contemporary Art

Edited By Jennie Hirsh, Isabelle Loring Wallace Copyright 2023
290 Pages 20 Color & 50 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

290 Pages 20 Color & 50 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

290 Pages 20 Color & 50 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Ventriloquism, Performance, and Contemporary Art volume calls attention to the unexpected prevalence of ventriloqual motifs and strategies within contemporary art. Engaging with issues of voice, embodiment, power, and projection, the case studies assembled in this volume span a range of media from painting, sculpture, and photography to installation, performance, architecture, and video.... Read more

Introduction
Voiceovers
JENNIE HIRSH AND ISABELLE LORING WALLACE

PART I
Pulling Strings

1 Voice, Vivification, and Subjectivity
Jasper Johns' Ventriloquist 
ISABELLE LORING WALLACE

2 Over My Dead Body
Puppets, Performance, and Paralysis in Cardiff and Miller’s The Marionette Maker
JENNIE HIRSH

3 Putting Words in Your Mouth and Images in Your Eyes
COURTNEY MCCLELLAN

4 Dislocated Voices
Wael Shawky’s Cabaret Crusades
KATE O’CONNOR

PART II
Dummies

5 García’s Juegos
Puppets, Immunity, Torture
JUAN CARLOS GUERRERO-HERNANDEZ

6 Dialectic Silence
Schizophonia in Juan Muñoz’s Ventriloquist Dummy
CINTIA GUTIERREZ REYES

7 Tadeusz Kantor’s Dead Dummies
KATIE GEHA

PART III
Speech Acts

8 I Remember
On Modern Living
NORA WENDL

9 Embolalia
Anna Deavere Smith Throwing Her Voice
JANE BLOCKER

10 Re-siting Marx
Okwui Enwezor, Ventriloquism, and the Das Kapital Oratorio
KERR HOUSTON

PART IV
Echoes

11 In a Manner of Speaking
CATHERINE CLOVER

12 LITHIC RECORD
NICHOLAS B . JACOBSEN AND NINA ELDER

Biography

Jennie Hirsh is Associate Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Maryland Institute College of Art.

Isabelle Loring Wallace is Associate Professor of Contemporary Art at the University of Georgia.

"Ventriloquism, Performance, and Contemporary Art is a fascinating collection of essays on the use of ventriloquism and puppetry in contemporary art. The writing, research, and arguments are exemplary. The editors and writers make a compelling case for considering the topic of ventriloquism in relationship to painting, sculpture, installation, performance, video, and even architecture."

--Jennie Klein, Ohio University

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