This book, the first devoted to the history and contemporary forms of Irish performance art in the north and south of Ireland, brings together contributions by prominent Irish artists and major academics. It features rigorous critical and theoretical analysis as well as historical commentaries that provide an absorbing sense of the rich histories of performance art in Ireland. Presenting diverse visual documentation of performance art practices, this collection shows how performance art in Ireland engaged with - and in turn influenced and led - contemporary performance and Live Art internationally.
Co-published with Live Art Development Agency.
Performing Political Acts: Performance Art in Northern Ireland: Ritual, Catharsis, and Transformation, André Stitt
Bbeyond and the Art of Participation, Karine Talec
Dublin and Performance Art, Twenty Years of Action 1970-1990, Amanda Coogan
The Development of Performance and Sound Art in Cork, Megs Morley interviews Danny McCarthy
Polyphonic Resonance: Sound Art in Ireland, EL Putnam
Survey: Ireland South of the Border High Performance 1984 Issue 25, Anthony Sheehan
The Development of Irish Feminist Performance Art in the 1980s and early 1990s, Kate Antosik-Parsons
Developing Dialogues: Live Art and Femininity in Post-Conflict Ireland, Helena Walsh
Performance Art in Ireland the New Millennium, Michelle Browne
Right Here Right Now, Cliodhna Shaffrey
Fragments on The Performance Collective: Subject to Ongoing Change at The Galway Arts Centre, Dublin, Ireland, Fergus Byrne
Out of Ireland: Irish Performance Art Internationally, Áine Phillips
