| Description |
1 online resource |
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text file |
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PDF |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Contents |
1. World Pictures -- 2. Camouflage Acts -- 3. Performing Ground -- 4. Environmental Unconscious -- 5. Embedded Performance -- 6. Epilogue: Situating the Self. |
| Summary |
"What stands out when we blend in? Performing Ground is the first book to explore camouflage as a performance practice, arguing that the act of blending into one's environment is central to the ways we negotiate our identities in and through space. Laura Levin tracks contemporary performances of camouflage through a variety of forms - performative photography; environmental, immersive, and site-specific performance; activist infiltration; and solo artworks - and rejects the conventional dismissal of blending in as an abdication of self. Instead, she contemplates the empowering political possibilities of 'performing ground, ' of human bodies intermingling with the material world, while directly engaging with the reality that women and other marginalized persons are often relegated to the background and associated with the properties of space. Performing Ground engages these questions through the works of some of today's most exciting performance artists such as Rebecca Belmore, Liu Bolin, Janieta Eyre, and Violeta Luna, and groups like Gob Squad, Punchdrunk, The Yes Men, and Urban Mimics"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Art and camouflage.
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Art and camouflage. |
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Spatial behavior.
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Spatial behavior. |
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Identity (Philosophical concept)
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Identity (Philosophical concept) |
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Human beings -- Effect of environment on.
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Human beings -- Effect of environment on. |
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Performing arts.
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Theatre studies. |
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Theater -- History & Criticism. |
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Theater -- Stagecraft. |
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Performing arts. |
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ART -- History -- General. |
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Tarnung. |
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Performance Künste. |
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Performance. |
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Scenkonst. |
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Identitet (filosofi) |
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Theatre studies. |
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Performing Arts. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Levin, Laura. Performing ground 9781137274243 (DLC) 2014019756 (OCoLC)873725916 |
| ISBN |
9781137274250 (electronic book) |
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1137274255 (electronic book) |
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1349445592 |
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9781349445592 |
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1137274247 |
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9781137274243 |
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9781349445592 (print) |
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9781137274243 |
| Standard No. |
10.1057/9781137274250 |
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