No innocent bystanders : performance art and audience / Frazer Ward.

By:

Ward, Frazer [Author]

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text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781611683363

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Electronic Books.

LOC classification:

NX456 .N656 2012

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Contents:

Performance after minimalism: fantasies of public and private -- Acconci: "Public space is wishful thinking" -- Burden: "I'd set it up by telling a bunch of people, and that would make it -- Happen" -- Abramovi?: "You can stop. you don't have to do this." -- Hsieh: "For me, the audience is secondary. however, without them my performances couldn't exist."

Subject: "At a moment when performance art and performance generally are at the center of the international art world, Frazer Ward offers us insightful readings of major performance pieces by the likes of Acconci, Burden, Abramovi, and Hsieh, and confronts the twisting and troubled relationship that performance art has had with the spectator and the public sphere. Ward contends that the ethical challenges with which performance art confronts its viewers speak to the reimagining of the audience, in terms that suggest the collapse of notions like 'public' and 'community.' A thoughtful, even urgent discussion of the relationship between art and the audience that will appeal to a broad range of art historians, artists, and others interested in constructions of the public sphere"--Provided by publisher.

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Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction: reimagining the audience -- Performance after minimalism: fantasies of public and private -- Acconci: "Public space is wishful thinking" -- Burden: "I'd set it up by telling a bunch of people, and that would make it -- Happen" -- Abramovi?: "You can stop. you don't have to do this." -- Hsieh: "For me, the audience is secondary. however, without them my performances couldn't exist."

"At a moment when performance art and performance generally are at the center of the international art world, Frazer Ward offers us insightful readings of major performance pieces by the likes of Acconci, Burden, Abramovi, and Hsieh, and confronts the twisting and troubled relationship that performance art has had with the spectator and the public sphere. Ward contends that the ethical challenges with which performance art confronts its viewers speak to the reimagining of the audience, in terms that suggest the collapse of notions like 'public' and 'community.' A thoughtful, even urgent discussion of the relationship between art and the audience that will appeal to a broad range of art historians, artists, and others interested in constructions of the public sphere"--Provided by publisher.

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