Full Description
The Phenomenology of Blood in Performance Art is a major new publication that expands the philosophical contextualisation of blood, its presence and absence, across the practice of performance art from a phenomenological perspective.
Edited by T. J. Bacon (she/they) and Chelsea Coon (she/her), this book moves through an established cannon of artists and beyond to ensure an inclusive representation of practices from a wider range of practitioners. First-hand interviews and conversations have been gathered from both canonical names as well as individuals who are prevalent in their communities and/or respective subcultures, but less represented within the frameworks of scholarly discourse. Each offers the opportunity to examine their experiences creating artworks and in turn contributes to the context of phenomenological examination within this publication through complementary scholarly texts from leading thinkers who frame phenomenological application to both visual art and transdisciplinary context. Featuring artists through new exclusive interviews and contributions including Marina Abramović, Jelili Atiku, Ron Athey, Franko B, Niya B, Marisa Carnesky, Chelsea Coon, Victor Martinez Diaz, Rufus Elliot, Ernst Fischer, Louis Fleischauer, Poppy Jackson, Mirabelle Jones, Andrei Molodkin, Hermann Nitsch, ORLAN, Mike Parr, Greta Sharp, tjb and Paola Paz Yee, and reference to many more. Alongside new scholarly insight by leading phenomenological and interdisciplinary art scholars and philosophers including T. J. Bacon, Chelsea Coon, Stuart Grant, Kelly Jordan, Lynn Lu, Roberta Mock, Amber Musser and Raegan Truax. Together they represent a significant exploration of intricate and dynamic responses to the cultural fabric of contemporary lived experiences across space and time through the medium of blood in performance art.
This incredible analysis of this performance art will be of huge interest to students and practitioners of live art, performance art, phenomenology, and performance philosophy.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction: The Phenomenology of Bloody Performance Art!
T. J. Bacon and Chelsea Coon
Part I: The Phenomenology of Bloody Pain
T. J. Bacon
1. Intentionality of a Moment: Three Stages of a Reduction
Stuart Grant
2. In Conversation: Franko B and Andrei Molodkin
T. J. Bacon, Chelsea Coon and Becky Haghpanah-Shirwan`
3. In Conversation: Louis Fleischauer and Ernst Fischer
T. J. Bacon
4. Blood Rituals: A Provocation to Queer a Phenomenological Soil
T. J. Bacon
5. In Conversation: Hermann Nitsch
T. J. Bacon
6. The Phenomenology of the Visceral Response
Lynn Lu
7. In Conversation: Mike Parr
T. J. Bacon
Part II: The Phenomenology of Bloody Care
T. J. Bacon
8. Being Shattered: Fragility and Our Psychogenesis
Kelly Jordan
9. In Conversation: ORLAN and Marina Abramović
T. J. Bacon and Kelly Jordan
10. Experiential Traces: The Aesthetic of Absence
Chelsea Coon
11. In Conversation: Mirabelle Jones and Chelsea Coon
Chelsea Coon
12. In Conversation: Paola Paz Yee and Victor Martinez Diaz
Chelsea Coon
13. Tainted Blood? Thinking Blood and Bleeding with Race
Amber Jamilla Musser
14. In Conversation: Jelili Atiku
Chelsea Coon
Part III: The Phenomenology of Bloody Disruption
T. J. Bacon
15. The Fluidity or Transmutability of Borders Held in the Lived Body of Trans and Non-Binary Bodies
T. J. Bacon
16. In Conversation: tjb and Ron Athey
Chelsea Coon
17. Bleeding Pulsing Biding Time: Durational Performance and Phenomenological Unmuting in the work of MC Coble
Raegan Truax
18. Reclaiming the Body: Blood, Trauma, Protest
Roberta Mock
19. In Conversation: Marisa Carnesky and Poppy Jackson
T. J. Bacon
References
Index
