Performance on the Edge: Transformations of Culture
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It dresses the politics of community-oriented and reconstructive artmaking in an era marked by the AIDS crisis, cultural and racial polarization, warfare, separatism and xenophobia. Provocatively illustrated with work from North and Central America and Eastern and Western Europe, the book challenges our assumptions about the relations between media and activism, technological imperatives and social processes, and bodily identities and virtual communities.
Author: Johannes Birringer
Format: Paperback, 385 pages, 156mm x 234mm, 529 g
Published: 2002, Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom
Genre: Other Performing Arts
Description
It dresses the politics of community-oriented and reconstructive artmaking in an era marked by the AIDS crisis, cultural and racial polarization, warfare, separatism and xenophobia. Provocatively illustrated with work from North and Central America and Eastern and Western Europe, the book challenges our assumptions about the relations between media and activism, technological imperatives and social processes, and bodily identities and virtual communities.
Performance on the Edge: Transformations of Culture