Performance art in Ireland : a history / edited by Áine Phillips.
Contributor(s): Phillips, Áine [editor]
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BookPublisher: London, UK : Bristol, UK : Live Art Development Agency ; Intellect, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Description: 336 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 23 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781783204281 (paperback); 1783204281 (paperback).Subject(s): Coogan, Amanda, 1971- | Stitt, André, 1958- | Performance art -- Ireland -- History | Performance art -- Northern Ireland -- History | Performance artistsDDC classification: 709.04074 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Barcode | |
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| Reference | MTU Crawford College of Art and Design Library Reference | 709.04074 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Not for loan | 00231785 |
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
The first book devoted to Irish performance art and the first attempt at a history of this art form in the north and south of Ireland, this book brings together contributions by prominent Irish artists and major academics. It features rigorous critical and theoretical analysis as well as historical commentaries that provide an absorbing sense of the rich histories of performance art in Ireland. Presenting diverse visual documentation of performance art practices, this collection shows how performance art in Ireland engaged with--and in turn influenced and led by--contemporary performance and live art internationally. Copublished with the Live Art Development Agency.
Contributors include: Áine Phillips, André Stitt, Karine Talec, Amanda Coogan, Megs Morley, Danny McCarthy, El Putnam, Anthony Sheenan, Kate Antonsik-Parsons, Helena Walsh, Michelle Browne, Cliodhna Shaffrey, Fergus Byrne.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Performing political acts : performance art in Northern Ireland : ritual, catharsis, and transformation / André Stitt -- Bbeyond and the art of participation / Karine Talec -- Dublin and performance art : twenty years of action, 1970-1990 / Amanda Coogan -- The development of performance and sound art in Cork / Megs Morely interviewing Danny McCarthy -- Polyphonic resonance : sound art in Ireland / El Putnam -- Survey : Ireland south of the border, High performance 1984, issue 25 / Anthony Sheehan -- The development of Irish feminist performance art in the 1980s and the early 1990s / Kate Antosik-Parsons -- Developing dialogues : live art and femininity in post-conflict Ireland / Helena Walsh -- Performance art in Ireland in the new millennium / Michelle Browne -- Right here right now / Cliodhna Shaffrey -- Fragments on the performance collective subject to ongoing change at the Galway Arts Centre, Dublin, Ireland / Fergus Byrne -- Out of Ireland : Irish performance art internationally / Áine Phillips.
"This book, the first devoted to the history and contemporary forms of Irish performance art in the north and south of Ireland, brings together contributions by prominent Irish artists and major academics. It features rigorous critical and theoretical analysis as well as historical commentaries that provide an absorbing sense of the rich histories of performance art in Ireland. Presenting diverse visual documentation of performance art practices, this collection shows how performance art in Ireland engaged with - and in turn influenced and led - contemporary performance and Live Art internationally" - back cover.