Coco Fusco (ed.): Corpus Delecti: Performance Art of the Americas (2000)

“Corpus Delecti is a unique collection of historical and critical studies of contemporary Latin performance. Drawing on live art from the 1960s to the present day, these fascinating essays explore the impact of Latin American politics, popular culture and syncretic religions on Latin performance.
Including contributions by artists as well as scholars, Fusco’s collection bridges the theory/practice divide and discusses a wide variety of genres. Among them are body art, carpa, vaudeville, staged political protest, tropicalist musical comedies, contemporary Venezuelan performance art, the Chicano Art movement, and queer Latino performance.

The essays demonstrate how specific social and historical contexts have shaped Latin American performance. They also show how those factors have affected the choices artists make, and how their work draw upon and respond to their environment.”

Publisher Routledge, 2000
ISBN 0415194547, 9780415194549
307 pages

Reviews: Lisa Wolford (Modern Drama, 2000), Ramon H. Rivera-Servera (Theatre J, 2001).

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Mariellen R. Sandford (ed.): Happenings and Other Acts (1995)

“The works of art and performance known as Happenings have often been considered to be the key to an understanding of the late twentieth-century avant-garde. Happenings and Other Acts discusses what ‘Happenings’ were, who made them and why, and the relationship they have to their origins in Dadaism and their antecedents in performance art. Articles, statements, interviews and essays by and about some of the most influential avant-garde artists and performers–Allan Kaprow, John Cage, Claes Oldenburg, Ann Halprin and George Maciunas–are presented here for the first time since they were originally published. The volume concludes with a commissioned essay by Gunter Berghaus on European Happenings.”

Publisher Routledge, 1995
ISBN 0415099366, 9780415099363
xxv+397 pages

Reviews: Marla Carlson (Theatre J, 1996), Ágnes Ivacs (Artpool, n.d.).

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