A Split Second of Paradise: Live Art, Installation, and Performance
Nicky Childs, Jeni Walwin
1998
Live art, installation and performance inspire growing audiences, attracting supporters across a range of contemporary art practices and disciplines. A Split Second of Paradise offers new texts by nine well-known writers on the work of leading artists working in live art. The artists draw from new cultural trends, fashions and music, as well as from aspects of modern customs and live art. Their new developments connect not only to traditional theatre and fine art but also to the sharp end of cultural practice: multimedia work, interactive video, and other strands of technology. A Split Second of Paradise assembles writers who have worked closely with the performance artists to create a wider context for the understanding of their art and for unravelling aspects of its growing popularity and practice. Artists featured include: Ackroyd and Harvey, Bobby Baker, Rose English, Keith Khan, Graeme Miller, Station House Opera, and Gary Stevens. Essays from the following writers offer new insights and strategies for considering live art: Sacha Craddock, Tim Etchells, Sarah Kent, Naseem Khan, Deborah Levy, Yve Lomax, Lynn MacRitchie, Andrea Phillips, and Marina Warner. This is a groundbreaking book for students of theatre studies, performance, fine and creative arts, and cultural studies, and their teachers.
Identifier
L0040Call Number
NX458.S65 1998Extent
158 pages : illustrations ; softcover 24 cmLanguage
ISBN
1854890999Place of Publication
London, UKPublication Type
Born DigitalPublisher
Rivers Oram PressCollection
grunt gallery LibraryCopyright 1998 Nicky Childs and Jeni Walwin.