On Stage

“Roman’s concise volume brings together the interdisciplinary theoretical perspectives that artistic practice in video, installation, and performance demand. As the cultural theorist and video artist Mieke Bal highlights in her preface to the book, scholarship on video installation in contemporary art is scarce despite its prevalence on the art scene, and this is precisely what Roman seeks to address. On Stage joins a burgeoning area of study on space and curatorial practice, particularly on exhibiting performance art and its attendant media. Unique to this book, however, is its breadth of theoretical and critical approaches to video image, spanning film, theatre studies, visual art, and art history, and the precision with which Roman utilizes these critical frameworks. It is the clarity with which she connects artistic practice with concepts of theatricality in ‘staging’ video that is its real strength.”

"The author, in avoiding the intricacies of critical theory, delivers a snapshot of responses to the institutional spaces and some of the work installed considering in careful detail the often-disregarded aspect of the moving image in relation to its periphery."