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• Title:Performing ground : space, camouflage, and the art of blending in / Laura Levin.
  
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• Author/Creator:Levin, Laura, author.
  
• Published/Created:Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
  

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  • Location:MAA LIBRARY (IKB) stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: N72.C36 L49 2014
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Art and camouflage.
  Spatial behavior.
  Identity (Philosophical concept)
  Human beings--Effect of environment on.
  Performing arts.
  
• Description:xiv, 243 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm
  
• Summary:"What stands out when we blend in? Performing Ground is the first book to explore camouflage as a performance practice, arguing that the act of blending into one's environment is central to the ways we negotiate our identities in and through space. Laura Levin tracks contemporary performances of camouflage through a variety of forms - performative photography; environmental, immersive, and site-specific performance; activist infiltration; and solo artworks - and rejects the conventional dismissal of blending in as an abdication of self. Instead, she contemplates the empowering political possibilities of 'performing ground,' of human bodies intermingling with the material world, while directly engaging with the reality that women and other marginalized persons are often relegated to the background and associated with the properties of space. Performing Ground engages these questions through the works of some of today's most exciting performance artists such as Rebecca Belmore, Liu Bolin, Janieta Eyre, and Violeta Luna, and groups like Gob Squad, Punchdrunk, The Yes Men, and Urban Mimics"-- Provided by publisher.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index
  
• ISBN:9781137274243 (hardback)
  1137274247 (hardback)
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: 1. World Pictures
  Becoming picture
  Performing ground
  politics of (back)ground
  Camouflage in practice
  2. Camouflage Acts
  Space, mimicry, photography
  Surrealism and reciprocal topographies: Janieta Eyre's photo portraits
  Blending into the domestic picture
  Transnational geometries: camouflage as mass ornament
  3. Performing Ground
  Environments past
  Environments present
  Queering environmental history: Gob Squad's Kitchen
  4. Environmental Unconscious
  Site-specificity: putting the environment back into environmental performance
  Letting space have its say
  Gendering the environmental unconscious
  Beneath space's white skin: Rebecca Belmore's site-specific actions
  Expanded ecological horizons
  5. Embedded Performance
  Camouflage and embeddedness
  Urban mimicry: Liu Bolin and Desiree Palmen
  Ethnographer-chameleons: Oreet Ashery and Nikki S. Lee
  Prankster-chameleons: Sacha Baron Cohen and The Yes Men
  Towards a consciousness of camouflage
  6. Epilogue: Situating the Self
  Nation and situation
  Gendering geopolitical space: Violeta Luna's Parting Memories.