Bringing together contributors from dance, theater, visual studies, and art history, Perform, Repeat, Record addresses the conundrum of how live art is positioned within history. Set apart from other art forms in that it may never be performed in precisely the same way twice, ephemeral artwork exists both at the time of its staging and long after in the memories of its spectators and their testimonies, as well as in material objects, visual media, and text, all of which offer new critical possibilities. Among the artists, theorists, and historians who contributed to this volume are Marina Abramovic, Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Rebecca Schneider, Boris Groys, Jane Blocker, Carolee Schneemann, Tehching Hsieh, Orlan, Tilda Swinton, and Jean-Luc Nancy.
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Table of Contents
Introductions
The Now and the Has Been: Paradoxes of Live Art in History
Amelia Jones
Then Again
Adrian Heathfield
Theories and Histories
Introduction
Amelia Jones
1. The Performativity of Performance Documentation
Philip Auslander
2. Dead Mannequin Walking: Fluxus and the Politics of Reception
Hannah B. Higgins
3. The Viral Ontology of Performance
Christopher Bedford
4. Can Photographs Make It So? Repeated Outbreaks of VALIE EXPORT’s Genital Panic Since 1969
Mechtild Widrich
5. Macular Degeneration: Some Peculiar Aspects of Performance Art Documentation
Mónica Mayer
6. History and Precariousness: In Search of a Performative Historiography
Eleonora Fabião
7. Performance Remains
Rebecca Schneider
8. Not as Before, but Simply: Again
André Lepecki
9. The Prosthetic Present Tense: Documenting Chinese Time-based Art
Meiling Cheng
10. Progressive Striptease
Sven Lütticken
11. Repetition: A Skin which Unravels
Jane Blocker
12. Art in the Age of Biopolitics: From Artwork to Art Documentation
Boris Groys
13. The Interstices of History
Angela Harutyunyan, et al
An Unofficial Timeline of Socialist and Post-Socialist Performance
Angela Harutyunyan, et al
Documents
Introduction
Adrian Heathfield
14. A Text on 20 years with 66 footnotes
Tim Etchells
15. Faith Wilding, Waiting and Wait-With
16. Lynn Hershman and/as Roberta Breitmore
17. We Are Formatted Memories
Orlan
18. Franko B and Kamal Ackarie, Don’t Leave Me This Way
19. Make Me Stop Smoking
Rabih Mroué
20. The Personal Evolution of the Performance Object (Or, What to Do with Leftovers)
Nao Bustamante
21. Cai Yuan and J.J. Xi, Mad for Real
22. Hayley Newman, MiniFlux
23. Daniel Joseph Martinez, Call Me Ishmael or The Fully Enlightened Earth Radiates Disaster Triumphant
24. Multiple Journeys: A Performance Chronology
Guillermo Gómez-Peña
25. Attending to Anthony McCall’s Long Film for Ambient Light
Lucas Ihlein
26. ReCut Project
Ming-Yuen S. Ma
27. Assuming a Migrant Woman’s Identity
Tanja Ostojić
28. Barbara Smith, Intimations of Immortality
29. Santiago Sierra and the "Contexts" of History
30. Reconstruction2
Janez Janša
31. Documents of Chinese Time-based Art: Three Impressions from Three Fragments
Meiling Cheng
32. Both Sitting Duet and Cheap Lecture
Jonathan Burrows and Matteo Fargion
33. Aftermath: The Performance / Installation Nexus
Blair French
Timeline of Ideas: Live Art in (Art) History, A Primarily European-US-based Trajectory of Debates and Exhibitions Relating to Performance Documentation and Re-enactments
Amelia Jones
Dialogues
Introduction
Adrian Heathfield
34. Interior Squirrel and the Vicissitudes of History
Carolee Schneemann and Amelia Jones
35. I Just Go in Life
Tehching Hsieh and Adrian Heathfield
36. The Maybe: Modes of Performance and the "Live"
Tilda Swinton and Joanna Scanlan
37. Photography as a Performative Act
Shezad Dawood and Amelia Jones
38. Do it Again, Do it Again (Turn Around, Go Back)
Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard, with Andrew Renton
39. Touching Remains
Janine Antoni and Adrian Heathfield
40. Reverse Martyrologies
Ron Athey and Dominic Johnson
41. The Live Artist as Archaeologist
Marina Abramović and Amelia Jones
42. Every House Has a Door
Lin Hixson and Mathew Goulish
43. Alliterations
Mathilde Monnier and Jean-Luc Nancy
Introduction and Translation: Noémie Solomon
44. Intangibles
Hugo Glendinning, Adrian Heathfield, and Tim Etchells
Acknowledgements
Author Biographies
Index
The Now and the Has Been: Paradoxes of Live Art in History
Amelia Jones
Then Again
Adrian Heathfield
Theories and Histories
Introduction
Amelia Jones
1. The Performativity of Performance Documentation
Philip Auslander
2. Dead Mannequin Walking: Fluxus and the Politics of Reception
Hannah B. Higgins
3. The Viral Ontology of Performance
Christopher Bedford
4. Can Photographs Make It So? Repeated Outbreaks of VALIE EXPORT’s Genital Panic Since 1969
Mechtild Widrich
5. Macular Degeneration: Some Peculiar Aspects of Performance Art Documentation
Mónica Mayer
6. History and Precariousness: In Search of a Performative Historiography
Eleonora Fabião
7. Performance Remains
Rebecca Schneider
8. Not as Before, but Simply: Again
André Lepecki
9. The Prosthetic Present Tense: Documenting Chinese Time-based Art
Meiling Cheng
10. Progressive Striptease
Sven Lütticken
11. Repetition: A Skin which Unravels
Jane Blocker
12. Art in the Age of Biopolitics: From Artwork to Art Documentation
Boris Groys
13. The Interstices of History
Angela Harutyunyan, et al
An Unofficial Timeline of Socialist and Post-Socialist Performance
Angela Harutyunyan, et al
Documents
Introduction
Adrian Heathfield
14. A Text on 20 years with 66 footnotes
Tim Etchells
15. Faith Wilding, Waiting and Wait-With
16. Lynn Hershman and/as Roberta Breitmore
17. We Are Formatted Memories
Orlan
18. Franko B and Kamal Ackarie, Don’t Leave Me This Way
19. Make Me Stop Smoking
Rabih Mroué
20. The Personal Evolution of the Performance Object (Or, What to Do with Leftovers)
Nao Bustamante
21. Cai Yuan and J.J. Xi, Mad for Real
22. Hayley Newman, MiniFlux
23. Daniel Joseph Martinez, Call Me Ishmael or The Fully Enlightened Earth Radiates Disaster Triumphant
24. Multiple Journeys: A Performance Chronology
Guillermo Gómez-Peña
25. Attending to Anthony McCall’s Long Film for Ambient Light
Lucas Ihlein
26. ReCut Project
Ming-Yuen S. Ma
27. Assuming a Migrant Woman’s Identity
Tanja Ostojić
28. Barbara Smith, Intimations of Immortality
29. Santiago Sierra and the "Contexts" of History
30. Reconstruction2
Janez Janša
31. Documents of Chinese Time-based Art: Three Impressions from Three Fragments
Meiling Cheng
32. Both Sitting Duet and Cheap Lecture
Jonathan Burrows and Matteo Fargion
33. Aftermath: The Performance / Installation Nexus
Blair French
Timeline of Ideas: Live Art in (Art) History, A Primarily European-US-based Trajectory of Debates and Exhibitions Relating to Performance Documentation and Re-enactments
Amelia Jones
Dialogues
Introduction
Adrian Heathfield
34. Interior Squirrel and the Vicissitudes of History
Carolee Schneemann and Amelia Jones
35. I Just Go in Life
Tehching Hsieh and Adrian Heathfield
36. The Maybe: Modes of Performance and the "Live"
Tilda Swinton and Joanna Scanlan
37. Photography as a Performative Act
Shezad Dawood and Amelia Jones
38. Do it Again, Do it Again (Turn Around, Go Back)
Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard, with Andrew Renton
39. Touching Remains
Janine Antoni and Adrian Heathfield
40. Reverse Martyrologies
Ron Athey and Dominic Johnson
41. The Live Artist as Archaeologist
Marina Abramović and Amelia Jones
42. Every House Has a Door
Lin Hixson and Mathew Goulish
43. Alliterations
Mathilde Monnier and Jean-Luc Nancy
Introduction and Translation: Noémie Solomon
44. Intangibles
Hugo Glendinning, Adrian Heathfield, and Tim Etchells
Acknowledgements
Author Biographies
Index