Being Watched av Carrie (Assistant Professor Harvard University) Lambert-Beatty

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<b>How Yvonne Rainer''s art shaped new ways of watching as well as performing; how it connected 1960s avant-garde art to politics and activism. </b><p>In her dance and performances of the 1960s, Yvonne Rainer famously transformed the performing body—stripped it of special techniques and star status, traded its costumes and leotards for T-shirts and sneakers, asked it to haul mattresses or recite texts rather than leap or spin. Without discounting these innovations, Carrie Lambert-Beatty argues in <i>Being Watched</i> that the crucial site of Rainer''s interventions in the 1960s was less the body of the performer than the eye of the viewer—or rather, the body as offered to the eye. Rainer''s art, Lambert-Beatty writes, is structured by a peculiar tension between the body and its display. Through close readings of Rainer''s works of the 1960s—from the often-discussed dance Trio A to lesser-known Vietnam war-era protest dances—Lambert-Beatty explores how these perf