No Innocent Bystanders: Performance Art and Audience

Creator

Frazer Ward, Smith CollegeFollow

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Creation Date

2012

Publisher

Dartmouth College Press

City

Hanover

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This electronic publication of No Innocent Bystanders was made possible with the permission of the author. The University Press of New England created EPUB and PDF files from a scanned copy of the book.

Document Type

Book

Description

(from upne.com)

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.”