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Stunningly beautiful, deeply puzzling, profoundly moving or intensely unsettling - performance art can evoke a wide variety of responses. In this important and richly illustrated new survey, Catherine Wood, one of the world's leading curators and writers in this field, provides the broadest and most up-to-date insight into the subject yet published. Wood proposes performance not as a genre separate from object-making but as a medium that has influenced the entire field of contemporary art.
From the spectacular forms of intimacy performed by Marina Abramovic to the painting processions initiated by Ei Arakawa and the social activism of Tania Bruguera, hugely divergent practices have emerged in the past twenty to thirty years which embrace the worlds of sculpture and painting, spectacle and protest. Shifting the focus from "I" to "We" and then "It". Performance in Contemporary Art is divided into sections that examine the individual perspective, the social and the object.
Wood looks at histories of performance through the lens of contemporary practitioners : the Japanese Gutai group in the 1950s, Brazilian neo-concretism in the 1960s, the feminist performance at Womanhouse in the US in the 1970s are key examples of historical precedents that have been revisited, reformed or rejected by contemporary artists in the twenty-first century.
