... Portnoy. As an art historian, she elaborates this whole mythology about you living through the rise of Fluxus, happenings, and Judson Dance, subsisting as a marginal Michael Portnoy s 100 Beautiful Jokes. Photo: Ernst van Deursen. Courtesy of the artist 53 portnoy but crucial underminer figure...

... transition from life into death, for his friends and family, for others suffering from terminal diseases, for the pub- lic, and most of all for himself: first, Eine Kirche der Angst vor dem Fremden in mir (A Church of Fear for the Foreign in Me [Ruhrtriennale, 2008 a Fluxus anti...

... [Ruhrtriennale, 2008 a Fluxus anti-­funeral that he presided over, distributing wafers and wine; and Mea Culpa, eine ReadyMadeOper (Burgtheater Vienna, 2009), a compilation of classical and popular music mixed with Schlingensief’s writings and visions. As if heeding the invocation uttered in Eine Kirche...

... transition from life into death, for his friends and family, for others suffering from terminal diseases, for the pub- lic, and most of all for himself: first, Eine Kirche der Angst vor dem Fremden in mir (A Church of Fear for the Foreign in Me [Ruhrtriennale, 2008 a Fluxus anti...

... theater Fluxus Peter Handke Antonin Artaud spectatorship surveillance John H. Muse Virtual Theater, Virtual Spectatorship On Jonathan Ball’s Clockfire All Their Words Actors approach the audience, taking their hands, leading each onlooker away to a separate...

...- rapher (Fluxus/Merz/Performance), a stockbroker (Futurism), a mother (Pop Art), a teacher (Film), a garbage plant worker (Architecture), a ceo (Vorticism/Blue Rider/ Abstract Expressionism), and a scientist (Suprematism/Constructivism). The films...

... and the Caribbean. According to Oliver, research into the career of Benjamin Patterson, the musi- cian, visual artist, and foundational figure in the Fluxus movement, planted the seeds for Radical Presence. She writes: Patterson, who is African American and until his recent retrospective...

... of La Monte Young and of Terry Riley’s In C, a Cageian or Fluxus- 5 salzman inspired effort that brought the key of C major back into vogue. But it might just as well be credited to Morton Feldman, a composer who was close...

... any binding principle whatsoever. Not of harnessing pop culture and technology to Tory Vazquez, artistic vision, as Liz LeCompte does (and as pop art, Warhol, and Fluxus did before James Hannaham, her), but of acknowledging how we are ourselves harnessed...

... contributions recall the twentieth-­century avant-­garde’s strategies for dis- solving art into life (or life into art). Peppered with echoes of Augusto Boal’s “invis- ible theater,” Jerzy Grotowski’s “paratheater,” and Fluxus and Situationism, the anony- mously authored instruction-­interludes threaded...

....­ Psychodrama, object experiments, nonnarrative and non-­textually based performance structures — these aspects were widespread in even the seemingly “activist” works of the Living Theatre and the Performance Group, not to mention the Happenings and Fluxus performances of the 1960s. The Living Theatre had...

... pranks, to Dadaist manifestations, to happenings by Fluxus and Alan Kaprow, Boal’s street theater, guerrilla theaters, and prank shows in the vein of Candid Camera — ­what is distinctive about this new form of surprise theater? The most obvious answer is the distributed technologies that enable...