Contents

Aaron Wright

Introduction

Locating Performance

Joon Lynn Goh

Producing with a Live Art Embrace

Helena Walsh and Benjamin Sebastian

Producing Potentials for Empowerment

Bojana Jankovic

Programming Risk

Rich Yap

Do With Me What You Will: An Exploration of Time and How We Share It

Derica Shields

Blackface at the Tate: Artist Larry Achiampong on Britain’s ‘Others’

Diana Damian

Live Art and the Institution: Tate Tanks

Dino Dinco

Under the Hollywood Sign

Tim Etchells

Alphabet of Festivals

Joanna Kindeberg

LUPA11 Brings Performance Art to a Garage in Bethnal Green

River Lin

Amusing and Delicious Art

Diana Damian

On Making Performance Visible

Jan Suk

Bodies? On? Stage? Human play of Forced Entertainment

Laura Burns

The Performer in Live Art

Shaheen Merali

(After) Love at Last Sight… Nezaket Ekici

Geraldine Harris

Marcia Farquhar, The Long Haul, Palo Alto, June 2013

Maddy Costa

In Bed with a Domestic Terrorist: Mental, the vacuum cleaner, and Me

Dominic Thorpe

Working with Stories of Other People’s Traumatic Experience: Questions of Responsibility as an Artist

Richard Sandell and Mat Fraser

Outside the Box: Rethinking how Museums present Disability

Amy Sharrocks

Anatomy of falling

Performance Under Attack: Part 1

Coco Fusco

The State of Detention: Performance, Politics and the Cuban Public

Emma Graham-Harrison

Afghan Artist Dons Armour to Counter Men’s Street Harassment

Clarissa Sebag-Montefiore

Ai Weiwei is back in production with his Fake studio and his team of assistants. What does art mean now to the dissident?

Peter Rugh

Reverend Billy Talen Faces a Year in Prison for Protesting in a Chase Bank

Marina Galperina

Earlobe-slicing artist Petr Pavlensky: ‘I feel excellent’

Michael Idov

Pussy Riot: The Jailhouse Interview

Performance Under Attack: Part 2 – Exhibit B

Barbican

Exhibit B press release

John O’Mahony

Edinburgh’s Most Controversial Show: Exhibit B, a Human Zoo

Selina Thompson

Exhibit B

Manick Govinda

Exhibit B: Artists Must Have the Right to Shock

Brett Bailey

BLOOD ON THE TARMAC

Ria Hartley

Exhibit B: Offensive or Harmful?

Speaking Up, Speaking Out

Santiago Cao, Paul Carter, BBB Johannes Deimling, Francesca Fini, Helena Goldwater Snezana Golubovic, Francesco Kiais, Jason Lim, Macarena Perich Rosas, Gonzalo Rabanal Rebecca Weeks, and Alexandra Zierle

VENICE INTERNATIONAL PERFORMANCE ART WEEK artists answer to the question “What is Performance Art?”

Marilyn Arsem

THIS is Performance Art

Helena Goldwater

Taxonomies of UK Performance Art: Absence, Eradication and Reclamation

Diana Smith

Catching Up On Our Own History: Performance Art and Cultural Amnesia

Mish Grigor

Man O Man

Natalie Thomas

Fan Letter to Matthew Barney

Ann Magnuson

An Open Letter to an Open Letter

Wendy Houstoun

Facebook posts

Vaughan Pilikian

The Audience Does Not Exist

Frie Leysen

Acknowledgement Speech of Frie Leysen Receiving the Erasmus Prize 12 November 2014

Claire Bishop

In the Age of the Cultural Olympiad, We’re All Public Performers

Morgan Quaintance

Iniva: Fit For Purpose?

Show Me the Money

Bryony Kimmings

You Show Me Yours…

James Stenhouse

Action Hero

How to Make a Living as an Artist Action Hero

Ben Walters

Death by Luxury: The Threat to Culture and the Power of Coffins in the Street

Mary Paterson

A Live Art Gala

Megan Vaughan

My Housemate Works in Arts Fundraising

Rachel Porter

Art at Work

BDZ

Boycott Zabludowicz

High Art in Low Places & Low Art in High Places

Dominic Johnson

How can a Tattoo be seen as a Work of Art?

Nathaniel Budzinski

Unfinished Revolutions: Oreet Ashery’s Party for Freedom

Amelia Abraham

CHRISTEENE’s Drag Terrorism is Creating a Cult Following

Ben Walters

Music is Like a Bird in My Mouth Dat I Didn‘t Know I Had: Christeene tells Ben Walters about Art, Fashion, Chickens and that ‘Empty Bucket Feelin’

Vaginal Davis

Camp / Anti Camp

Hili Perlson

Truth in Gender: Wu Tsang and boychild on the Question of Queerness

Steph Kretowicz

Mykki Blanco interview: ‘I’m basically just doing glam rock’

Tea Hacic

Kembra Pfahler on her Performance Art Class, Feminism, and Redesigning the Planet

Brian Boucher

Ali G With an MFA: Q+A With Hennessy Youngman

Dickie Beau

The Resurrection Game: How Dickie Beau Brought Marilyn and Judy Back to Life

Reviews

Andy Field

Criticism

Natalie Raven

Tempting Failure 2013

Selina Thompson

Dana Michel: Yellow Towel

Amy Sherlock

Is He for Real? The Blurry Boundaries of Contemporary Performance

Charlotte Richardson Andrews

Project O Goes Large: SWAGGA and Benz Punany

Andrew Haydon

Big Hits – GETINTHEBACKOFTHEVAN, Soho Theatre [or: review as object lesson in why self-reflexivity isn’t as good as getting to the point]

John O’Mahony

Camera Lucida, a Truly Spine-tingling Experience

Maddy Costa

Kein Applaus für Scheisse at IBT13

Megan Vaughan

Let’s Make Love and Listen to Death from Above; This is How we Die for a Second Time; A Third Time

Daniel B. Yates, Catherine Love, Lois Jeary, and Rosanna Hall

Paper Stages at Edinburgh

Petra Kuppers

Review of Access All Areas: Live Art and Disability and M21: From the Medieval to the 21st Century

David Getsy

Review of Pleading in the Blood: The Art and Performances of Ron Athey, edited by Dominic Johnson

Dearly Departed

Michael McNay

Mike Kelley Obituary

Lloyd Newson

Nigel Charnock 1960-2012

Guy Brett

Rose Finn-Kelcey Obituary

Lois Keidan

Monica Ross: An Act of Memory

Susan Block

R.I.P. Frank Moore June 25th 1946 – October 14th 2013: American Hero, Revolutionary Artist, Shaman, Poet, Wounded Healer & Great LUVeR

Emily Roysdon

Ian White (1971-2013)

Jennifer Doyle and Tavia Nyong’o

José Esteban Muñoz (1967-2013)

Krystyna Lipińska Illakowicz

Remembering Wojciech Krukowski (1944-2014), the founder of Akademia Ruchu (Academy of Movement)

Marcus Williamson

Professor Stuart Hall: Sociologist and Pioneer in the Field of Cultural Studies whose Work Explored the Concept of Britishness

Dee Heddon

In Memoriam: Adrian Howells (9 April 1962-16 March 2014)

Neil Butler

Ian Smith

Karen Finley

Joan Rivers