Foreword
Jean-Pierre Simon
Introduction
Raphaël Cuir
Performance Art: Life of the Archive and Topicality
I. Definitions and status of performance art
— A history of performance art on the
Riviera from 1951 to the present day, Éric Mangion
— How I wrote my first book,
L'Acte pour l'Art,
Arnaud Labelle-Rojoux
— Performance, elements for a problematic definition, Hubert Besacier
II. Life of the archive, from artist to spectator
— What database for an ephemeral, multi-facted artistic practice? Methodology of the research and development program, Cédric Moris Kelly
— The
Fluxus performance photograph in the museum: from scientific tool to fantasized image, Virgile Delmas
— The object: neither fetish nor proof, but a gift of performance, Liliana Coutinho
— Fluctuations in a certain history of performance / Will tomorrow's archives create new “anti-monuments”?, Patricia Brignone
— Interviewing performance art, Mehdi Brit
— Tino Sehgal's performances: the spectator as living archive, Viviana Gravano
III. Gender, politics, context
— The men of
feminism, Glenn Phillips
— Performance and
feminism in Southern California: a case study?,
Géraldine Gourbe
— Storytelling and performance in the art of
Kara Walker, Rebecca Peabody
— Conflict, trauma and the performative act, Liam Kelly
— Time, gender and politics: Beijing artists and performance art, Kalliopi Papadopoulos
An opening to conclude
— The four ontological parameters of performance (and their doubles), David Zerbib
List of illustrations and copyright credits
Color illustrations
Biographies
