In other Los Angeleses : multicentric performance art / Meiling Cheng.

Performance art and Los Angeles, two subjects spectacularly resistant to definitions, illuminate each other in this searching study by Meiling Cheng. A marginal artistic pursuit by choice as well as necessity, performance art has flourished in and about "multicentric" Los Angeles for nearl...

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Main Author: Cheng, Meiling, 1960-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2002.
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Table of Contents:
  • Illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1: Inscribing Multicentricity: Performing Other Los Angeleses; 2: Out of Order: Reading, Writing, Performing (in) L.A.; 3: Engendering Other/Selves: Suzanne Lacy; 4: Elia Arce: A Skin Test and a Tongue Transplant; 5: A Hetero-locus in Process: Self Performances at Highways; 6: What's in a Name?: Marking Sacred Naked Nature Girls; 7: Kinesthetic Transmutation of Theatricality: Consuming Art Performances; Epilogue; Notes; Index.