Kristine Stiles CV

Book section · January 1, 2015 Destruction in art is not destruction of art, but rather an aesthetic technique for creating new forms of perception and knowledge related to violence in society, war and trauma, tracking in bodies, economic crisis, environmental contamination, natural dis ... Full text Cite

Bodies in action

Book section · January 1, 2015 Nevertheless, semiotics cuts a far narrower swath in theatre studies than in literary analysis. Semiotic inquiry frequently focuses on relatively conventional productions of dramatic texts, and has oen been less auned to avant-garde experimentation or broa ... Full text Cite

Anti-art

Book section · January 1, 2015 Opinions divide on how to dene anti-art. e concept has become a multipurpose signier for the denunciation of art, rejection of aesthetic norms, ridicule of art institutions, repudiation of art markets, and is even sometimes confused with iconoclasm. Initia ... Full text Cite

Fluxus

Book section · January 1, 2015 Fluxus is an international movement of artists, poets, composers, and individuals formally untrained in art, producing objects, installations, performances, collective festivals, celebrations, exhibitions, publications, mail art, editions, and multiples. O ... Full text Cite

“Performance Art”

Journal article · 2013 This extensive essay/annotated bibliography on Performance Art is divided into the following divisions, many with sub-sections. It begins with the following divisions: General Overview; Major Exhibitions; Journals; Modernist Avant-Garde Performance; and Po ... Cite

“The Ideal Gifts of Istvan Kantor.”

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'I’m Ready.' Thinking About Artists’ Writings in a Global Context

Book section · 2013 This text reflects on the growth of artists’ writings globally, taking into consideration the intersecting factors of international political upheavals since 1989; the digital revolution and Internet age; and the "visual turn" that began in the 1990s. The ... Cite

Performance Art

Book section · 2013 This extensive essay/annotated bibliography on Performance Art is divided into the following divisions, many with sub-sections. It begins with the following divisions: General Overview; Major Exhibitions; Journals; Modernist Avant-Garde Performance; and Po ... Cite

Wangechi Mutu’s Family Tree

Book section · 2013 Listen to Binyavanga Wainaina, Kenyan author and winner of the prestigious Caine Prize for African Writing, commenting after an encounter with Wangechi Mutu’s art. “Your power to rearrange what has been presented to control you is your powerful weapon,” he ... Cite

The Ideal Gifts of Istvan Kantor

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"I'm Ready." Thinking about Artists' Writings in a Global Context Today

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Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art: A Sourcebook of Artists’ Writings

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Comments on my first interview with Gustav Metzger

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Conversation with William Pope.L

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Peter d’Agostino’s World-Wide-Walks / between earth & sky

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Negative Affirmative: San Francisco Bay Area Art, 1974-1981

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7.47 a.m. (The Traumatic Visual Vocabulary of Maurice Benayoun’s So.So.So. Somebody Somewhere Some time)

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Home Alone: ‘Reversal of Positions of Presentation’ and the Visual Semantics of Domesticity

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Peggy Phelan and Kristine Stiles In Conversation

Journal article Millennium Film Journal · 2011 Cite

Correspondence Course, An Epistolary History of Carolee Schneemann and Her Circle

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Foreword, Or, Unbuckling the Belt of Fluxus through Billie Maciunas’ Experiences

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Art will be…2009-2034

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Irregular Ways of Being in Time

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The Trinity Session

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Cloud with its Shadow: Marina Abramovic

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Come and Go

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INSIDE/OUTSIDE: Balancing Between a Dusthole and Eternity

Journal article Archive · 2008 Cite

States of Mind Dan & Lia Perjovschi

Book · 2007 Featured Publication Published in conjunction with the exhibition 'States of mind: Dan and Lia Perjovschi, ' Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Aug. 22, 2007-Jan. 7, 2008. ... Cite

Shaved Heads and Marked Bodies: Representations from Cultures of Trauma

Book section · 2007 excerpted in Dan Perjovschi Post R, for the exhibition “Media Culpa,” Bucharest, Romania, 1995; reprinted with a new Afterword in Jean O'Barr, Nancy Hewitt, Nancy Rosebaugh, eds., Talking Gender: Public Images, Personal Journeys, and Political Critiques (C ... Link to item Cite