No innocent bystanders : performance art and audience /

No innocent bystanders : performance art and audience /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Ward, Frazer, author.
Imprint:	Hanover, N.H. : Dartmouth College Press, [2012] ©2012
Description:	1 online resource (205 pages) : illustrations.
Language:	English
Series:	Interfaces: studies in visual culture Interfaces, studies in visual culture.
Subject:	Performance art. Performing arts -- Audiences. Performance art. Performing arts -- Audiences. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11166639

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ISBN:	9781611683363 161168336X 9781611683349 1611683343 9781611683356 1611683351
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. English. Print version record.
Summary:	"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.
Other form:	Print version: Ward, Frazer. No innocent bystanders. Hanover, N.H. : Dartmouth College Press, ©2012 9781611683349

Table of Contents:

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"
Notes
Bibliography
Index