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CTR 162 / Spring 2015
Performing Products: When Acting Up Is Selling Out<http://bit.ly/CTRonline162>
Edited by T. Nikki Cesare Schotzko, Didier Morelli and Isabel Stowell-Kaplan
How can we, as artists, scholars, and critics, determine where art might and might not intervene into matters that exceed its immediate aesthetic parameters? Why is there such a pervasive fear within the art community that art might presume too much, getting in the way of “real action” and “real change”? Moreover, does art’s role, witting or not, within commodity culture render any political motivation it might carry with it a commodity as well? What do we do when acting up is already selling out? These tensions and confusions, these preoccupations and paranoias are precisely what we address in Performing Products: When Acting Up Is Selling Out. Featuring interviews, photo-essays, reflections on performances past, articles on the current state of performance as a set of deftly imbricated practices and economics, as well as one letter-cum-manifesto, we have deliberately blurred the lines between art, performance, and criticism in this issue: Percival P. Puppet discusses his copyright dispute with Marina Abramović; Istvan Kantor writes to Jeff Koons; Nicole Lizée talks of her love for merch in a world of avant-garde composition; Lawrence Switzky considers the redemptive possibility of exhaustion in marathon theatre; and many more artists and scholars reflect upon their own experience of performance in the current economy.
This issue contains:
Performing Products: When Acting Up Is Selling Out
T. Nikki Cesare Schotzko, Didier Morelli and Isabel Stowell-Kaplan
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SUPREME GIFT—for Jeff Koons
Istvan Kantor (a.k.a. Monty Cantsin)
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Showing Support: Some Reflections on Vancouver’s Dance Economies
Peter Dickinson
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Bouquet
Diane Borsato
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Selling Himself in Central Park: Banksy Does New York
Isabel Stowell-Kaplan
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Body As Subject, Body As Object: Percival P. Puppet, in Conversation
Noam DePloom
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Marathon Theatre as Affective Labour: Productive Exhaustion in The Godot Cycle and Life and Times
Lawrence Switzky
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Popularity: The Spectator as Statistic
Joshua Schwebel
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Falling Piece
Diane Borsato
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Chew, Drink, and Spit: A Book Review
Didier Morelli
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The Ballad of __________B
Francisco-Fernando Granados
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Performance Art, Pornography, and the Mis-spectator: The Ethics of Documenting Participatory Performance
Adriana Disman
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A Sufficiently Advanced Racket: Performance on the Margins of Art and Commerce
T. Nikki Cesare Schotzko
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Marketing, Merch, and Media: Nicole Lizée, in Conversation
Howard Wiseman and Adriana Disman
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Unsustainable Acts of Love and Resistance: The Politics of Value and Cost in One-on-One Performances
Deborah Pearson
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Requiem for a Glacier
Paul Walde
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Cloud
Diane Borsato<http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/?Author=Diane+Borsato>
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