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Performing ground : space, camouflage, and the art of blending in
- Title
- Performing ground : space, camouflage, and the art of blending in / Laura Levin.
- Author
- Levin, Laura
- Publication
- Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | N72.C36 L49 2014 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xiv, 243 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color); 23 cm
- Summary
- "What stands out when we blend in? Performing Ground is the first book to explore camouflage as a performance practice, arguing that the act of blending into one's environment is central to the ways we negotiate our identities in and through space. Laura Levin tracks contemporary performances of camouflage through a variety of forms - performative photography; environmental, immersive, and site-specific performance; activist infiltration; and solo artworks - and rejects the conventional dismissal of blending in as an abdication of self. Instead, she contemplates the empowering political possibilities of 'performing ground,' of human bodies intermingling with the material world, while directly engaging with the reality that women and other marginalized persons are often relegated to the background and associated with the properties of space. Performing Ground engages these questions through the works of some of today's most exciting performance artists such as Rebecca Belmore, Liu Bolin, Janieta Eyre, and Violeta Luna, and groups like Gob Squad, Punchdrunk, The Yes Men, and Urban Mimics"--
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Contents
- Machine generated contents note: -- 1.World Pictures2.Camouflage Acts3.Performing Ground4.Environmental Unconscious5. Embedded Performance6.Epilogue: Situating the SelfNotesSelect BibliographyIndex.
- ISBN
- 9781137274243 (hardback)
- 1137274247 (hardback)
- LCCN
- 2014019756
- 40024013368
- OCLC
- 873725916
- ocn873725916
- SCSB-9695915
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries