Revolving Documents-Narrations of the Beginnings

A collection of essays that offer an understanding of how performance art can be a tool for dissent against power structures and a means to reach a broad audience outside informed art circles.

Challenging dominant histories of the genre, this book focuses on trans-local and transcultural connections and seeks to generate and expand knowledge on different narrations of the beginnings of performance art. It brings together essays by leading international scholars, curators, archivists, and ar...