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Shannon Jackson explores a range of disciplinary, institutional, and political puzzles that engage the social and aesthetic practice of performance in this collection of twenty essential essays spanning her career. Back Stages starts by considering the historical connection between performance practice and movements of social reform, while later writings analyze disciplinary debates on the place of performance in higher education and within the contemporary field of socially engaged art, tracking fraught and allied relationships to literary studies, art history, visual culture, theater, social theory, and critical theory.
At a time of increased aesthetic experimentation and political debate within the art world, these essays alight on artists, groups, and cultural organizations whose experiments have challenged conventions of curation and critique, including Theaster Gates, Paul Ramirez Jonas, Harrel Fletcher, and My Barbarian. Throughout Jackson navigates the political ambivalences of performance, from the late nineteenth to the twenty-first century, tracking shifts in participatory art that seek to resist capitalism, even as such performance work paradoxically risks neoliberal appropriation by a post-Fordist experience economy.
Back Stages surfaces unexpected cross-disciplinary connections and provides new opportunities for mutual engagement within a wide network of educational, artistic, and civic sectors. A substantial introduction excavates the critical links between the essays and a variety of disciplines and movements.
Contents
INTRODUCTION
SECTION 1: BACKGROUND STAGES
1. Performance at Hull-House: Museum, Microfiche, and Historiography
2. Performing Show and Tell: On the Disciplinary Problems of Mixed-Media Practice
3. Theatricality's Proper Objects: Genealogies of Performance and Gender Theory
4. When "Everything Counts": Experimental Performance and Performance Historiography
5. Resist Singularity
6. Rhetoric in Ruins: Performing Literature and Performance Studies
7. Living Takes Many Forms: Creative Time
SECTION 2: THE ARTS AT WORK
8. Life Politics/Life Aesthetics: Environmental Performance in red, black & GREEN: a blues
9. Elmgreen & Dragset's Theatrical Turn
10. Performativity and Its Addressee: Walker Art Collection
11. Just-in-Time: Performance and the Aesthetics of Precarity
12. Seven Ways to Look at Windows: Harrell Fletcher
13. Counter-Carnival in a Performance-Friendly World: En Mas'
14. Utopian Operating Systems: Theaster's Way of Working
15. Trusting Publics: Paul Ramirez Jonas
SECTION 3: RE-STAGINGS
16. The Way We Perform Now
17. Drama and Other Time-Based Arts
18. Assemblies: Public Participation, Heteronomous Worlds
19. Epilogue: Essential Labor and Proximate Performance
Notes
Bibliography
Index
