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Leigh Bowery: Performative Costuming and Live Art is a critical exploration of the creative practice, social-historical context, and cultural impact of the late London-based artist Leigh Bowery. The diversity of Bowery's work and his marginality as an artist who emerged during the 1980s from a subcultural milieu complicated and thwarted his cultural value, hindering his incorporation into art institutions and performance art narratives for some time. Drawing on a variety of disciplines and challenging research contexts, Sofia Vranou seeks to historicize Bowery's multifaceted body of work and critically situate it within the expanded fields of visual culture and performance studies.
Through close analysis of Bowery's key looks and non-theatrical performances, the book investigates the implications of his work in dominant histories of performance art and urgent discourses surrounding normativity, representations of illness, and identity politics. Thought-provoking and engaging, it focuses on Bowery's costuming as a performative strategy that effectively blurs the boundaries between art and life; delves into his aesthetics of freakishness and narcissistic desire, reflects on his involvement with BDSM practices and the performance of extremity, and unpacks the posttranssexual ethos behind his hybrid embodiments and trans-queer visual language.
Foreword by Boy George.
Contents
Foreword - Boy George
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Larger Than Life
Chapter 1 Performative Costuming: Merging Fashion, Art, and Life
Chapter 2 The Subcultural Freak: Narcissism and the Disruption of Normativity
Chapter 3 Fabulously Painful: BDSM and the Performance of Extremity
Chapter 4 Beyond Drag: Trans-Queer Embodiments and Repronormativity
Epilogue: Bowery Futures
Bibliography
Index
