ART / Performance

Paper · Semantic Scholar

In this article, I discuss how arts-based research (ABR) and the concept of "writing as inquiry" were used to engage with some of Michel Foucault’s ideas. As a non-traditional student returning to academia after a professional break, I initially struggled with traditional methods of reading and analyzing theoretical texts. Therefore, I turned to ABR to engage with Foucault’s work and was able to successfully engage …

Reference · Wikidata

art using the actions of an artist or other participants (not to be confused with performing arts)

Encyclopedia · Wikipedia

Performance art is an artwork or art installation in the art world where the artist is present in the work. It may be witnessed live or through documentation, spontaneously developed or written, and is traditionally presented to a public in a fine art context in an interdisciplinary mode. Also known as artistic action, it has been developed through the years as a genre of its own in which art is presented live. It h…

Image · Europeana

Book · DOAB

This interdisciplinary book brings into dialogue research on how different fluids and bodies of water are mobilised as liquid ecologies in the arts in Latin America and the Caribbean. Examining the visual arts, including multimedia installations, performance, photography and film, the chapters place diverse fluids and systems of flow in art historical, ecocritical and cultural analytical contexts. The book will be o…

Full text · Open Library

In this book leading scholars from Europe and North-America trace expanded cinema from its origins in early abstract film to post-war happenings and live events in Europe and the US; the first video and multi-media experiments of the 1960s; the fusion of multi-screen art with sonic art and music from the 1970s onwards, right up to the digital age. It brings new perspectives to bear on the work of established America…

Image · DPLA