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1 online resource |
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Theater: theory/text/performance |
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Theater--text/theory/performance.
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| Contents |
One. The Arc of the Moral Universe Bends toward Justice; Sanctify Your Dissent; Recuperating Religion; Visualizing Trauma; Do We Look, or Do We Look Away?; Two. Linda Montano, Performance Art Saint; Becoming Sister Rose Augustine; The Tensions of Monasticism; Erasing the Past; Endurance and the Pursuit of Sainthood; Performing Sister Rose Augustine; Abstracting the Habit; Three. The Faith Healings of Ron Athey; Overflowing with Liquid Love; Internal Bleeding; Faith Healing before a Live Audience; Reverend Ron; Four. John Duncan's Confrontational Aesthetics; Totally Depraved |
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Preaching HellfireMutilating the Self; Feminism, Dialogue, Confrontation; Surviving Blind Date; Epilogue: Endurance at the Corner of State and Bank; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
"Long Sufferingproductively links avant-garde performance practices with religious histories in the United States, setting contemporary performances of endurance art within a broader context of prophetic religious discourse in the United States. Its focus is on the work of Ron Athey, Linda Montano, and John Duncan, U.S.-based artists whose performances involve extended periods of suffering. These unsettling performances can disturb, shock, or frighten audiences, leaving them unsure how to respond. The book examines how these artists work at the limits of the personal and the interpersonal, inflicting suffering on themselves and others, transforming audiences into witnesses, straining social relations, and challenging definitions of art and of ethics. By performing the death of self at the heart of trauma, strategies of endurance signal artists' attempts to visualize, legitimize, and testify to the persistent experience of being wounded. The artworks discussed find their foundations in artists' early experiences of religion and connections with the work of reformers from Angelina Grimke to Rev. Martin Luther King, who also used suffering as a strategy to highlight social injustice and call for ethical, social, and political renewal"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Art and religion -- United States -- History -- 21st century
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Arts, American -- 21st century -- Themes, motives
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Performance art -- Themes, motives
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Theater -- History & Criticism.
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ART -- Performance.
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ART -- Reference.
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Art and religion
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Arts, American -- Themes, motives
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Performance art -- Themes, motives
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2016020070 |
| ISBN |
9780472122332 |
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0472122339 |
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