Interdisciplinary Performance ― Reformatting Reality

Spanning one hundred years and three geographical locations – Europe, Japan and North America – this book examines the capacity of performance to bring new propositions for what a shared reality might look like to the common bank of knowledge. It introduces the fundamental concepts of interdisciplinarity in performance, tracing its development from Futurism and Dadaism to the present, enabling students to understand the different modes of interdisciplinary performance making, and to conceive and realise performance work of their own. Landmark phenomena such as action painting, intermedia, feminine writing, identity politics, cyborgian bio-art, electronic disturbance and ludic (h)activism are analysed, making this an invaluable source for practical theorists and students of Performing Arts, Fine and Visual Art and Cultural Studies. Through a unique approach, Natasha Lushetich shows artistic practice to be coextensive with philosophy and critical theory.

Natasha Lushetich is Lecturer in the Department of Drama, University of Exeter, UK. She was formerly Lecturer in Interdisciplinary Arts and Performance at the University of Portsmouth, UK.