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Title Corpus delecti : performance art of the Americas / edited by Coco Fusco
Published London ; New York : Routledge, 2000

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Description xv, 307 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Contents Introduction : Latin American performance and the reconquista of civil space / Coco Fusco -- Melodramatic seductions of Eva Peron / Silvia Pellarolo -- Chicas 2000 : an excerpt / Carmelita Tropicana -- Exotic exports : the myth of the mulatta / Raquel Mendieta Costa -- She is a virgin and she awaits you : an excerpt / Maria Elena Escalona -- Beach is nice / Feliz Gonzalez-Torres -- Stuff! : an excerpt / Coco Fusco and Nao Bustamante -- Visibility as strategey : Jesusa Rodriguez's body in play / Roselyn Costantino -- Border brujo / Guillermo Gomez-Pena
Oh Goya! Goya! : an excerpt / Evelyn Velez-Aguayo -- Camp, carpa and cross-dressing in the theater of Tito Vasconcelos / Antonio Prieto -- Memory performance : Luis Alfaro's "Cuerpo Politizado" / Jose Esteban Munoz -- Adventures of Connie Chancla / Maria Elena Gaitan -- Architectures of seeing / May Joseph -- Henny-Penny piano destruction concert / Raphael Montanez Ortiz -- From inscription to dissolution : an essay on expenditure in the work of Ana Mendieta / Charles Merewether -- Burden of guilt / Tania Bruguera
Una cosa es una cosa (a thing is a thing) / Maria Teresa Hincapie -- Lygia Clark and Helio Oiticica : a legacy of interactivity and participation for a telematic future / Simone Osthoff -- Todos mis muertos (all my dead ones) / Merian Soto -- Embodying Venezuela / Maria Elena Ramos -- PerforMANcena / Cesar Martinez -- America the beautiful / Nao Bustamante -- Sunday, July 25, 1965 / Marta Minujin -- Margins and institutions : performances of the Chilean Avanzada / Nelly Richard -- Operations (work in progress) Chile-England / Lotty Rosenfeld
Yeguas del Apocalipsis (the mares of the apocalypse) : the equine lips of exile / Francisco Casas -- Street and its conditions / Felipe Ehrenberg -- Non-objective arts in Mexico 1963-83 / Maris Bustamante -- Orphans of modernism : the performance art of Asco / C. Ondine Chavoya -- End of the line / BAW/TAF -- Performance in Cuba in the 1980s : a personal testimony / Leandro Soto -- Art attack : the work of ARTECALLE / Aldo Damian Menendez -- "1242900 (parte 1)" / Angel Delgado -- Electronic disturbance theater / Ricardo Dominguez
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Arts, American -- 20th century.
Arts, Latin American -- 20th century.
Arts, Modern -- 20th century -- America.
Performance art -- America.
Performance art -- Latin America.
Author Fusco, Coco.
LC no. 99026480
ISBN 0415194539 (hb : alk. paper)
0415194547 (paperback: alk. paper)