Ventriloquism, Performance, and Contemporary Art

1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-032-30476-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 290 Seiten, Format (B × H): 174 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 600 g

Reihe: Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies

Ventriloquism, Performance, and Contemporary Art volume calls attention to the unexpected prevalence of ventriloqual motifs and strategies within contemporary art.

Engaging with issues of voice, embodiment, power, and projection, the case studies assembled in this volume span a range of media from painting, sculpture, and photography to installation, performance, architecture, and video. Importantly, they both examine and enact ventriloqual practices, and do so as a means of interrogating and performatively bearing out contemporary conceptions of authorship, subjectivity, and performance. Put otherwise, the chapters in this book oscillate seamlessly between art history, theory, and criticism through both analytical and performative means. Across twelve essays on ventriloquism in contemporary art, the authors, who are curators, historians, and artists, shine light on this outdated practice, repositioning it as a conspicuous and meaningful trend within a range of artistic practices today.

This book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, contemporary art, media studies, performance, museum/curatorial studies, and theater.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hirsh, Jennie

Wallace, Isabelle Loring

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstformen, Kunsthandwerk Installations-, Aktions-, Computer- und Videokunst
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: 20./21. Jahrhundert

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Voiceovers

Jennie Hirsh and Isabelle Wallace

1. Voice, Vivification, and Subjectivity: Jasper Johns Ventriloquist

Isabelle Loring Wallace

2. Over My Dead Body: Puppets, Performance, and Paralysis in Cardiff and Miller’s The Marionette Maker

Jennie Hirsh

3. Not All Objects that Look Have Eyes

Courtney McClellan

4. Dislocated Voices: Wael Shawky’s Cabaret Crusades

Kate O’Connor

5. García’s Games (1978-1979): Puppets, Trauma, Immunity

Juan Guerrero-Hernandez

6. Dialectic Silence: Schizophonia in Juan Muñoz’s Ventriloquist Dummy

Cintia Gutiérrez Reyes

7. Tadeusz Kantor’s Dead Dummies

Katie Geha

8. I remember: On Modern Living

Nora Wendl

9. Embolalia

Jane Blocker

10. Re-Siting Marx

Kerr Houston

11. In a Manner of Speaking

Catherine Clover

12. The Lithic Record

Nina Elder and nicholas b. jacobsen

Über Autor(innen)

Jennie Hirsh is Associate Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Maryland Institute College of Art.

Isabelle Loring Wallace is Associate Professor of Contemporary Art at the University of Georgia.