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Performing ground = space, camouflage and the art of blending in /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Performing ground/ Laura Levin.
Reminder of title:	space, camouflage and the art of blending in /
Author:	Levin, Laura.
Published:	Basingstoke :Palgrave Macmillan : : 2014.,
Description:	272 p. :25 b&w, 11 col.ill., ill. :
Notes:	Electronic book text.
Subject:	Art and camouflage. -
Online resource:	Online journal 'available contents' page
ISBN:	1137274255 (electronic bk.) :

Performing ground = space, camouflage and the art of blending in /
Levin, Laura.

Performing groundspace, camouflage and the art of blending in /[electronic resource] :Laura Levin. - 1st ed. - Basingstoke :Palgrave Macmillan :2014. - 272 p. :25 b&w, 11 col.ill., ill.

Electronic book text.

1. World Pictures 2. Camouflage Acts 3. Performing Ground 4. Environmental Unconscious 5. Embedded Performance 6. Epilogue: Situating the Self Notes Select Bibliography Index.

Document

Performing Ground explores camouflage as a performance practice, arguing that the act of blending into one's environment is central to the ways we negotiate our identities through space. The book offers a critically rich investigation of how the performative practice of camouflage renders the politics of space, power, and gender (in)visible.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.

PDF.

Laura Levin is Associate Professor of Theatre at York University in Toronto, Canada, and teaches in York's MA/PhD programs in Theatre and Performance Studies and Communication and Culture. She is editor-in-chief of Canadian Theatre Review and editor of Theatre and Performance in Toronto and Conversations Across Borders.

ISBN: 1137274255 (electronic bk.) :£55.00Subjects--Topical Terms:

1010380
Art and camouflage.

LC Class. No.: N72.C36 / L49 2014

Dewey Class. No.: 700.103

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