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Ventriloquism, Performance, and Contemporary Art

Ventriloquism, Performance, and Contemporary Art

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies

Art Criticism & TheoryArt HistoryPerformance Art

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ISBN10: 1032290455
ISBN13: 9781032290454
Publisher: Routledge
Published: May 31 2023
Pages: 274
Language: English

Ventriloquism, Performance, and Contemporary Art volume calls attention to the unexpected prevalence of ventriloqual motifs and strategies within contemporary art.

Engaging with issues of voice, embodiment, power, and projection, the case studies assembled in this volume span a range of media from painting, sculpture, and photography to installation, performance, architecture, and video. Importantly, they both examine and enact ventriloqual practices, and do so as a means of interrogating and performatively bearing out contemporary conceptions of authorship, subjectivity, and performance. Put otherwise, the chapters in this book oscillate seamlessly between art history, theory, and criticism through both analytical and performative means. Across twelve essays on ventriloquism in contemporary art, the authors, who are curators, historians, and artists, shine light on this outdated practice, repositioning it as a conspicuous and meaningful trend within a range of artistic practices today.

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