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Artists in the Archive: Engaging With the Remains of Art and Performance" is a stunning collection of critical writings and original artworks which explore the agency of the archival document.

The volume opens up a unique dialogue between artists and scholars, to look at a range of relationships between insider know-how and outsider knowledge, troubling the distinction between artistic practice and scholarly research.

In its global range of contributions "Artists in the Archive" presents disciplinary perspectives from experimental theatre, to performance art, choreography and...

This volume provides a comprehensive account of Dennis Oppenheim's radical art practices of this explosive five-year period. Providing a principal means of spilling his Conceptual Art beyond the object or the gallery to investigate -real world- and -real time- embedded processes and places, Oppenheim's steps into performance from 1969 enacted the artist's body as the agent, material, and place of art, and extended his work toward multiple spaces and times, including cross-generational exchange. Directing the viewer toward his body as the source and material of his works, Oppenheim's...

Performing presence: Between the live and the simulated proposes that the advent of new media forms, and the increasing integration of contemporary performance and media, has generated new engagements, practices and understandings of presence.

Addressing new media art and performance, multi-media theatre, video installation, mixed reality environments and locative arts, the book presents case studies of work by Lynn Hershman Leeson, Paul Sermon, Gary Hill, Tony Oursler, The Builders Association and Blast Theory, as well as analyses of a series of related experiments created for CAVE, an...