IS THE LIVING BODY THE LAST THING LEFT ALIVE? THE NEW PERFORMANCE TURN, ITS HISTORIES AND ITS INSTITUTIONS

Dedicated to the renewed encounter between dance and performance and the institutions of global contemporary art, the book proposes that a new performance turn has emerged in the second decade of the century, and looks at its correlations with other shifts in pr actices, discourses, and broader society.The starting point for this research was to consider the complex notion and definition of p erformance, demonstrating a variety of ways to understand its practice as well as its historical transformation. The term performan ce, used sin...[Read more]