Reviews for Documentation, Disappearance And The Representation Of Live Performance

The average rating for Documentation, Disappearance And The Representation Of Live Performance based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2019-06-25 00:00:00 David V Gutierrez A comprehensive and thorough examination of the challenges of documenting live performance, especially physical theatre and live art. It was written recently enough to examine the value of video as well as photography and critical writing as archival documents of performance. It usefully draws on the ideas of many theorists and practitioners.

Review # 2 was written on 2013-06-27 00:00:00 Steven Ricks This, &, more importantly, Kirby's bk "Happenings", were no doubt very important to me at some point or another. I'm sure I read at least one other bk about Italian Futurism but this is the one I'm positive of. The emphatic embracing of the industrial world seems naive & stupid in this era where industrialism is so obviously eco-destructive & capitalism is so obviously anti-humanity (& anti-life in general) intensive, but, in the 19-teens, this take on culture might've been the rough equivalent of Gangsta Rap in the sense of 'Fuck Y'all. This is what's here, we're gonna run w/ it.' The Italian Futurists were visionaries, they just didn't see far enuf. I think the dadaists saw much further. Legendarily, Marinetti (a primary Futurist) was friends w/ Mussolini. Both had very clear ideas of how they wanted to transform Italy. Mussolini caused alotof megalomaniacal grief. Marinetti probably didn't. From a formal perspective, the Italian Futurists broke new ground out the wazoo. Performance Artists of these days shd be this imaginative.. but are they?