Histories and Practices of Live Art

DEIRDRE HEDDON is Professor of Theatre Studies at the University of Glasgow, UK. She has published extensively in the field of contemporary performance practice and is the co-editor, with Jennie Klein and Nikki Milican, of The National Review of Live Art: 1979-2010, a personal history (New Moves International, 2010). Her monograph, Autobiography and Performance was published in 2008, and Devising Performance: A Critical History in 2005 (both Palgrave).  JENNIE KLEIN is Associate Professor of Contemporary Art History at Ohio University, USA. She is the editor of Letters from Linda M. Montano (Routledge, 2005), the co-curator (Rebecca McGrew) of The 21st Century Odyssey Part II: The Work of Barbara T. Smith (2005), and the co-editor (Myrel Chernick) of The M Word: Real Mothers in Contemporary Art (Demeter Press, 2011). She is a contributing editor for PAJ, Genders, and Art Papers.

• Introduction: Writing Histories and Practices of Live Art; D.HeddonDeveloping Live Art; J.KleinThe Time of Live Art; B.HoffmanArt, Meeting and Encounter: The Art of Action in Great Britain; R.Hunter & J.B.HunterSite: Between Ground and Groundlessness; S.Hodge & C.TurnerIntimacy and Risk in Live Art; D.JohnsonAll Together Now: Performance and Collaboration; C.MacdonaldThe Politics of Live Art; D.HeddonBibliographyIndex.

'A comprehensive treatment of the key issues in the history of performance practice. This book provides a much needed overview of the field as it has developed over the last half century. Heddon and Klein are to be congratulated for having instigated and compiled a coherent anthology made of autonomous and yet mutually enhancing components.' - Laurie Beth Clark, University of Wisconsin, USA