"Performance" has multiple and often overlapping meanings that signify a wide variety of social behaviors. In this invitation to reflect on the power of performance, Diana Taylor explores many of its uses and iterations: artistic, economic, sexual, political, and technological performance; the performance of everyday life; and the gendered, sexed, and racialized performance of bodies. This book performs its argument. Images and texts interact to show how performance is at once a creative act, a means to comprehend power, a method of transmitting memory and identity, and a way of understanding the world.
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- Chapter 1. Framing [Performance]
- Chapter 2. Performance Histories
- Chapter 3. Spect-Actors
- Chapter 4. The New Uses of Performance
- Chapter 5. Performative and Performativity
- Chapter 6. Knowing through Performance: Scenarios and Simulation
- Chapter 7. Artivists (Artist-Activists), or, What’s to Be Done?
- Chapter 8. The Future(s) of Performance
- Chapter 9. Performance Studies
- Notes
- Index
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