Fifty Key Performance Artists

1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-0-367-85841-4
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 250 Seiten, Format (B × H): 138 mm x 216 mm

Reihe: Routledge Key Guides

Fifty Key Performance Artists is a critical introduction to some of the most influential and innovative performance artists from the emergence of the genre post-World War II to the present, whose work has largely been underrecognized and underacknowledged within an English-language context.

The collection compiles an international and innovative index of artists who, primarily through body art and live performance, define the field. It includes artists whose now-canonical work defined performance art through feminist body art, interventionist public art, and durational performance, as well as new artists who are redefining the genre through emerging technologies and an explicit alignment with social activism. Artists indexed include Arahmaiani, Rebecca Belmore, Rocío Boliver, Lorenza Böttner, Disabled Avant-Garde, Va-Bene Elikem Fiatsi aka crazinisT artist, Emily Jacir, Lee Wen, Lorraine O’Grady, Graciela Ovejero Postigo, Tracey Rose, Seiji Shimoda, Leafa Wilson aka Olga Krause and Marcía X. Each entry considers the artist’s body of work in its historical, cultural, and political context, and a map at the end provides additional artists whose work is artistically and historically relational to those included.

This is an essential survey of performance art for scholars and students in visual, theatre, and performance studies and for those interested in matters of the body in performance, reception theory, and live art.

Zielgruppe

General and Undergraduate Core

Autoren/Hrsg.

Disman, Adriana

Cesare Schotzko, T. Nikki

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Einzelne Künstler: Biographien, Monografien
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstformen, Kunsthandwerk Installations-, Aktions-, Computer- und Videokunst

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

1. Chumpon Apisuk

2. Arahmaiani

3. Jelili Atiku

4. Aye Ko

5. Adina Bar-On

6. Rebecca Belmore

7. Rocío Boliver

8. Lorenza Böttner

9. Leigh Bowery

10. Tania Bruguera

11. Chen Jin

12. Nikhil Chopra

13. Vaginal Davis

14. Vlasta Delimar

15. Manmeet Devgun

16. Disabled Avant-Garde

17. Esther Ferrer

18. Va-Bene Elikem Fiatsi aka crazinisT artist

19. Regina José Galindo

20. Tara and Razieh Goudarzi

21. Kamil Guenatri

22. He Yunchang

23. Adrian Howells

24. Tari Ito

25. Emily Jacir

26. Kollektivnye Deistviya / Collective Actions

27. Lee Wen

28. Alastair MacLennan

29. Tanya Mars

30. Karel Miler

31. Sükran Moral

32. Eli Neira

33. Boris Nieslony

34. Lorraine O’Grady

35. Clifford Owens

36. Clemente Padín

37. Graciela Ovejero Postigo

38. Ashmina Ranjit

39. Rosanna Raymond

40. Tracey Rose

41. Rosemberg Sandoval

42. Hassan Sharif

43. Seiji Shimoda

44. Latai Taumoepeau

45. Sylvie Tourangeau

46. Voina

47. Zbigniew Warpechowski

48. Leafa Wilson aka Olga Krause

49. Watan Wuma

50. Márcia X

Über Autor(innen)

T. Nikki Cesare Schotzko, PhD, is Associate Professor at the Centre for Drama, Theatre, and Performance Studies, University of Toronto, Canada. Her first book, Learning How to Fall: Art and Culture after September 11 (Routledge, 2015), investigates the changing relationship between world events and their subsequent documentation in mainstream and social media. Her recent projects explore the potential of performance to enact radical care. She has published articles and reviews in journals including TDR, Performance Research, and the International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media, among others, and dramaturged experimental music-theatre and theatre productions in Canada, Mexico, and the US.

Adriana Disman, PhD, is a performance artist and writer. Disman’s performance has been presented internationally since 2010 and they have curated performance art events and residencies in Toronto, Montreal, New York City, London, and Berlin. Their writing on performance—particularly that which is perceived as “self-harming”—appears in Performance Research, C Magazine, Canadian Theatre Review, Theatre Research in Canada, and More Caught in the Act, among others. Disman holds a PhD in Drama from Queen Mary University of London, UK, and was awarded the 2025 CATR Richard Plant Award and the 2018 GOG Art Writing Award. They are also a novelist.