Performance

¿Per for qué? ¿Es el performance o la performance? Finalmente un libro que introduce al público e investigador en el arte del performance y que además lo hace, por primera vez, desde la experiencia latinoamericana. Su autora es sin dudas la máxima autoridad en esta materia a la que aborda desde múltiples ópticas: el teatro, la política, el feminismo, la teoría de géneros, la construcción de la memoria y el activismo social. El atractivo volumen que el lector sostiene en su mano, sintetiza la profusa investigación de Taylor y la acerca al gran público de manera lúdica, a través de ejemplos claros e ilustrativos. "Performance" has multiple and often overlapping meanings that signify a wide variety of social behaviors. In this invitation to reflect on the power of performance, Diana Taylor explores many of its uses and iterations: artistic, economic, sexual, political, and technological performance; the performance of everyday life; and the gendered, sexed, and racialized performance of bodies. This book performs its arguments. Images and texts interact to show how performance is at once a creative act, a means to comprehend power, a method of transmitting memory and identity, and a way of understanding the world. -- from back cover Annotation "Performance" has multiple and often overlapping meanings that signify a wide variety of social behaviors. In this invitation to reflect on the power of performance, Diana Taylor explores many of its uses and iterations: artistic, economic, sexual, political, and technological performance; the performance of everyday life; and the gendered, sexed, and racialized performance of bodies. This book performs its argument. Images and texts interact to show how performance is at once a creative act, a means to comprehend power, a method of transmitting memory and identity, and a way of understanding the world Cover 1 Title 4 Copyright 5 Contents 8 Acknowledgments 10 Preface 14 Chapter 1. Framing [Performance] 16 Chapter 2. Performance Histories 58 Chapter 3. Spect-Actors 88 Chapter 4. The New Uses of Performance 104 Chapter 5. Performative and Performativity 132 Chapter 6. Knowing through Performance: Scenarios and Simulation 148 Chapter 7. Artivists (Artist-Activists), or, What’s to Be Done? 162 Chapter 8. The Future(s) of Performance 200 Chapter 9. Performance Studies 214 Notes 224 Index 234 In this invitation to reflect on the power of performance, Diana Taylor explores the multiple and overlapping meanings of performance, showing how it can convey everything from artistic, economic, and sexual performance, to providing ways of understanding how race, gender, identity, and power are performed.