Performance Art: A Guided Tour

Performance Art can be mysterious and obscure despite presence, immediacy and co-production being at the forefront of creative practice. This elucidation provides a critical framework to inform our encounters with it. Histories, concepts and agendas, cultural theory and close studies of artists and thinkers are signaled and interpreted by artist and scholar, Peter Bond.

Written for the interested yet uninitiated, this accessible map of the roots, landmarks and terrain of live art re-invigorates its appreciation. Shifting circumstances and diversity presents surprising paths and meanings to its raison d'être.