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En un ejercicio de recuperación de prácticas performáticas chilenas, Sebastián Valenzuela-Valdivia nos invita a reconsiderar los criterios curatoriales y archivísticos para definir nuevas categorías de análisis atingentes a la experimentación del cuerpo y el uso de medios como la fotografía, el video y el libro-perfomance. Así, Del cuerpo al archive contribuye a cómo pensar esta experimentación en el marco de la historicidad y la potencia...
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Tracey Warr's art texts have been developed as an 'embedded' writer, writing with rather than about artists. Throughout her various modes of art writing, she argues against binaries and focuses on the stream of consciousness, the more than human, and remoteness.Her essays tangle with punk art, art and ecology, endurance art, performance art, site-specific art, and women's art. Warr's writing engages with the making processes of contemporary artists,...
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Louis V. Moten presents his first collection of poetry. Moten is a founding member of “The Black Poets Collective of Kansas City, MO” where he and several others birthed the modern spoken word movement in KC. Here, readers get to witness Moten as the master of wordplay, jest, introspection and a wakeup call to the masses. This is collection features his famous, "The House that Blacks Built", "Khemitstry" and "Squirrel Watching". This is a must...
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A celebration in words and pictures, 20@OMI offers a vivid portrait of a renowned international, nonprofit arts center in upstate New York. This handsome, lavishly illustrated volume recounts how Art Omi grew from its modest beginnings as an artists' residency program in a converted barn into a thriving arts center boasting four artists residency programs, a sculpture park, a spectacular new visitors' center and year-round arts education for local...
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Strings Attached is a lavishly illustrated book containing four (4) essays by noted experts that trace the tradition of Czech puppetry and discuss its relationship to America puppetry. Included are essays discussing the National Museum, Prague, and puppet theaters, museums, collections, organizations, and publications in the Czech Republic. The book accompanied an exhibition of the same name, held at the Columbus (Ohio) Museum of Art from March 8...
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Hablar del entrenamiento vocal del actor es hablar de la condición humana. De esto sabe Kristin Linklater, creadora del método conocido como freeing the natural voice.
A pesar de desobedecer la sugerencia de su maestra en cuanto a nunca escribir sobre el tema, porque cada individuo que experimenta con su voz y cada clase, son experiencias únicas, Kristin comprendió que había de compartir su vasto conocimiento sobre la voz hablada del actor y...
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El sonido se ha instalado intensa y cualitativamente en todos los ámbitos de la vida, siendo actualmente valorado como un renovado material con una enorme disponibilidad plástica. Con las invenciones en las últimas décadas del siglo XIX y principios del XX de los medios audio-mecánicos y electro-acústicos, y los desarrollos en tecnologías audio-numéricas de la segunda mitad del siglo XX y principios del XXI, hemos avanzado en su comprensión...
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Walking as Artistic Practice lays out foundational information about the history of walking and its development as an artistic practice, making it accessible to readers of all backgrounds. It also provides guidance on how to analyze and discuss walking artworks, with vocabulary support, over three hundred examples, and over seventy-five exercises. The chapters offer a variety of topical approaches, allowing readers and instructors to craft an experience...
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There are countless books out there teaching the nuts and bolts of acting; the craft, the business and so on. However, as a young actor, just starting out on my path, I wanted something more. Life as an artist is unlike that of any other career path. There's no straight line to achieving your goals. And being an artist is not the type of job you can simply leave at the office come 5 o'clock. It's so much a part of who you are and seeps into every...
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Ce livre rassemble des observations et des réflexions sur l'art performance au Québec et sur la scène internationale. L'auteur a voulu comprendre une forme d'art déroutante, la démarche de quelques performeurs importants, pénétrer leur univers d'un point de vue théorique, mais aussi de les rejoindre dans une pratique qu'il lui a été donné d'enseigner.
La 1 re partie examine l'éthique de la performance comme démarche pour se créer une...
12) Hyper
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Hyper: préfixe provenant du grec « huper », signifiant « sur ». Il est souvent utilisé pour marquer une forme d'intensité ou de supériorité dans l'espace.
Le but du jeu est simple: chaque saynète a pour thème un mot commençant par « hyper ». L'arbitraire décidera du sort de nos personnages.
Au fil du recueil, ceux-ci se croisent ou se manquent, les unions se nouent et se dénouent, dans un rythme effréné, celui de la surabondance,...
13) Cris de couples
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Il y a de la séparation dans l'air.
9 couples se séparent ou se préparent à le faire.
Dans la vie ça peut parfois avoir lieu dans l'entente, dans l'intelligence, d'un commun accord. Mais là c'est pas le cas. Pas du tout.
Les uns hurlent, vocifèrent, se font des reproches, mentent, se menacent, se frappent ou risquent de le faire. Il y en a qui se quittent par amour. Il y en a même qui ont recours au suicide... enfin c'est ce qu'ils prétendent.
Évidemment...
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Parfois, la vie ne se déroule pas comme on l'avait prévu. Megan Felton et William Cooper sont de jeunes écrivains prometteurs qui rêvent de gloire, mais leurs livres ne séduisent aucun éditeur. Leurs illusions brisées, ils se retrouvent à travailler face à face dans un bureau exigu comme simples pigistes. Et pour parfaire cette situation insupportable, ils se détestent.
Se pourrait-il que leurs déceptions communes les rapprochent? Will,...
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Art as Social Action is both a general introduction to and an illustrated, practical textbook for the field of social practice, an art medium that has been gaining popularity in the public sphere. With content arranged thematically around such topics as direct action, alternative organizing, urban imaginaries, anti-bias work, and collective learning, among others, Art as Social Action is a comprehensive manual for teachers about how to teach art as...
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Digesting Recipes: The Art of Culinary Notation scrutinizes the form of the recipe, using it as a means to explore a multitude of subjects in post-war Western art and culture, including industrial mass-production, consumerism, hidden labour, and art engaged with the everyday. Each chapter is presented as a dish in a nine-course meal, drawing on examples from published cookbooks and the work of artists such as Alison Knowles, Yoko Ono, Annette Messager,...
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In this ground-breaking collection of critical essays, 15 writers explore the experimental, interdisciplinary and radically transgressive field of contemporary live art in South Africa.
Set against a contemporary South African society that is chronologically 'post' apartheid, but one that continues to grapple with material redress, land redistribution and systemic racism, Acts of Transgression finds a representation of the complexity of this moment...
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Enfrentados a la noción de progreso y al umbral evolutivo de la inteligencia artificial que alimentan los imaginarios sobre nuestro futuro, las reflexiones y los ensayos que reúne este libro buscan fundar un nuevo paisaje crítico, en la zona donde se encuentran el arte, la teoría crítica y la tecnología. Un paisaje lleno de innovación, profundamente latinoamericano, ensamblado con los artefactos de vanguardia del presente, donde la obra de...
19) The Gift
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In the midst of the Occupy Wall Street movement, a writer and academic from New York named Barbara Andersen begins spamming people indiscriminately with ukulele covers of sentimental songs. A series of inappropriate intimacies ensues, including an erotically charged correspondence and then collaboration with an extraordinarily gifted and troubled musician living in Germany.
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“Anne Bean: Self Etc.” is the first major monograph about the performance work of artist Anne Bean, a noted international figure who has been working actively since the 1960s. This book includes extensive visual documentation of Bean's performances, critical essays by leading scholars of art and performance and a series of new visual essays by the artist. Additional contributions include documentation of collaborations with influential artists,...
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