Performance Action av Paula (University of Westminster UK.) Serafini

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<P>Performance Action looks to advance the understanding of how art activism works in practice, by unpacking the relationship between the processes and politics that lie at its heart. Focusing on the UK but situating its analysis in a global context of art activism, the book presents a range of different cases of performance-based art activism, including the anti-oil sponsorship performances of groups like <I>Shell Out Sounds</I> and <I>BP or not BP?</I>, the radical pedagogy project <I>Shake!</I>, the psychogeographic practice of <I>Loiterers Resistance Movement</I>, and the queer performances of the artist network <I>Left Front Art</I>. Based on participatory, ethnographic research, <I>Performance Action</I> brings together a wealth of first-hand accounts and interviews followed by in-depth analysis of the processes and politics of art activist practice. The book is unique in that it adopts an interdisciplinary approach that borrows concepts and theories from the fields of art histor

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