Performativity in the gallery : staging interactive encounters / Outi Remes, Laura MacCulloch and Marika Leino (eds).

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Introduction -- Part I Art History and its Challenged Position to Performative Encounters -- Lies, Lies, It’s All Lies I Tell You! -- Collecting Performance-Based Art: New Challenges and Shifting Perspectives -- Exhibiting Performance, Staging Experience -- Histories of Interaction and Participation: Critical Systems from New Media Art -- From Event to Archive and to Event Again -- Part II From Curator to Viewer -- Participation in the Gallery: (Re)negotiating Contracts -- Playing Ball: Friday Late, Performativity and the Victoria and Albert Museum -- Heckler, Performance, Participation and Politeness: Using Performance Art as a Tool to Explore the Liminal Space between Art and Theatre and its Capacity for Confrontation -- Crowd Control: Encountering Art’s Audiences -- Part III Curating Participation in the Gallery: Case Studies -- At Play: Curatorial Notes about Playfulness -- Attending the Gallery -- Like Shadows: A Celebration of Shyness -- South African Live Art and the Representation of its Residue: On Gabrielle Goliath’s Stumbling Block.

This book coincides with an increase in the programming of live art elements in many galleries and museums. Traditional art history has, however, been wary of live art’s interdisciplinarity and its tendency to encourage increased formal and conceptual risk taking. Time-based performances have challenged the conventions of documentation and the viewer’s access to the art experience. This book questions the canon of art history by exploring participation, liveness, interactivity, digital and process-based performative practices and performance for the camera, as presented in gallery spaces.
The essays present both academic research as well as case studies of curatorial projects that have pushed the boundaries of the art historical practice. The authors come from a wide range of backgrounds, ranging from curators and art producers to academics and practising artists. They ask what it means to present, curate and create interdisciplinary performative work for gallery spaces and offer cutting-edge research that explores the intricate relationship between art history, live and performing arts, and museum and gallery space.