Performing pedagogy : toward an art of politics /

• Main Author: Garoian, Charles R., 1943-
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, 1999.
• Series: SUNY series, interruptions--border testimony(ies) and critical discourse/s.; SUNY series, innovations in curriculum.
• Subjects: Performance art > United States.; Artists > United States > Psychology.; Arts > Study and teaching > Methodology.; Communication in education > United States.; Art de performance > �Etats-Unis.; Artistes > �Etats-Unis > Psychologie.; Arts > �Etude et enseignement > M�ethodologie.; Communication en �education > �Etats-Unis.; EDUCATION > Philosophy & Social Aspects.; Artists > Psychology.; Communication in education.; Performance art.; United States.; Electronic books.

"Performing Pedagogy examines the theory and practice of performance art as an art of politics. It discusses the different ways in which performance artists use memory and cultural history to critique dominant cultural assumptions, to construct identity, and to attain political agency. In doing...

Table of Contents:

• Performance Art: Repositioning the Body in Postmodern Art Education
• The Emancipatory Pedagogy of Performance Art
• Goat Island: Spectacle as Performance Art Pedagogy
• Robbie McCauley's Talk-About Pedagogy
• Understanding Performance Art as Curriculum Text: The Community-based Pedagogy of Suzanne Lacy
• Constructing Identity: An Autobiographical Case Study of Performance Art
• Constructing a Performance Art Pedagogy.