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Sabine Gebhardt Fink (ed.), Andrej Mircev (ed.): Revolving Documents—Narrations of Beginnings, Recent Methods and Cross-Mappings of Performance Art

Sabine Gebhardt Fink (ed.), Andrej Mircev (ed.)

Revolving Documents—Narrations of Beginnings, Recent Methods and Cross-Mappings of Performance Art

Softcover, 248 pages

PDF, 248 pages

Challenging dominant histories of the genre, this book focuses on translocal and transcultural connections, and seeks to generate, expand knowledge on different ­narrations of the beginnings of Performance Art. It brings together essays of leading international scholars, curators, and artists who explore the strategies and epistemic/historiographic tools with which museums, galleries, but also historians and theorists and artists, have recollected, reconstructed and represented, this important artistic and activist practice. Written from queer, feminist, and critical perspectives and thus offering multiple methodological frameworks, the publication comes as a result of an intensive dialogue between authors coming from various cultural and academic contexts such as: Switzerland, Slovakia, US, Israel, Germany, former Yugoslavia, UK, and Portgual.

With contributions by Andrea Bátorová, Sabine Gebhardt Fink, Séverine Fromaigeat, Oriana Fox, Stephen Greer, Dror Harari, Cláudia Madeira and Fernando Matos ­Oliveira, ­Andrej Mirčev, Dorothea Rust, Sandra Sykora, with an special contribution by Hanna B. Hölling, Jules Pelta Feldman, and Emilie Magnin and a conversation with Andrea ­Saemann, Chris Regn, Muda Mathis, and Margarit von Büren, and drawings by Lena Eriksson.

  • contemporary art
  • art history
  • performance art
  • performance
  • performing arts

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Sabine Gebhardt Fink

Sabine Gebhardt Fink

studied Art History, Philosophy, German Literature and Theatre Studies at the Universities of Munich and Basel graduating with a Ph.D. on the Transformation of Action. She has been post-doctorate at the Institute for Cultural Studies in the Arts (2004-2008), deputising assistant to the Head of Department of Cultural Studies in the Arts at Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK), and lecturer of Art History at the Ruhr University, Bochum, (2009-2011). Since 2011 she held the chair of professorship in Fine Arts at the University of Applied Arts and Design, Lucerne. She is also involved with projects at the Swiss National Science Foundation on Iconic Criticism (SNF-Bildkritik) and co-founder of the Performance Index Basel. Her research focus is on The Situated Body, Perform Space, Intermedia Conditions, Exhibition Displays and Hermann Obrist and the Art Nouveau Sculpture.

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