Actional poetics - Ash She He the performance actuations of Alastair Maclennan, 1971-2020 /

Actional poetics - Ash She He the performance actuations of Alastair Maclennan, 1971-2020 / edited by Sandra Johnston, Chérie Driver and Paula Blair.

Authoritative study of the Scottish born artist Alastair MacLennan who has achieved worldwide renown as a performance artist. Includes comprehensive visual documentation of his performative practice drawn extensively from his archival resources, with essays from leading national and international sc...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Other Authors: Johnston, Sandra (Editor), Driver, Chérie (Editor), Blair, Paula (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Bristol : Intellect Books, 2021.
Subjects:
MacLennan, Alastair, > 1943- > Works.
MacLennan, Alastair, > 1943- > Criticism and interpretation.
MacLennan, Alastair, > 1943- > Interviews.
MacLennan, Alastair, > 1943-
Performance art > Ireland.
Performance art.
Ireland.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Interviews.
Table of Contents:
  • <P>List of Illustrations<br /> </p><p>Introduction: Actional Poetics
  • ASH SHE HE: The Performance Actuations of Alastair MacLennan, 1971-2018</p><p>Sandra Johnston and Paula Blair<br /> </p><p>Alastair MacLennan: Troubled time</p><p>Nick Stewart</p><p> <br />'Maybe you don't need the paintbrush...?' In conversation</p><p>Declan McGonagle and Alastair MacLennan</p><p> <br />Elemental qualities in the work of Alastair MacLennan</p><p>Denys Blacker<br /> </p><p>Sensible transcendence</p><p>Chérie Driver</p><p> <br />Alastair MacLennan: A life seen as a form of pedagogy</p><p>Brian Connolly</p><p> <br />'Sometimes you need help from other people's ghosts': Alastair MacLennan's multi-disciplinary and 'instituting' practice as civil action</p><p>Christa-Maria Lerm Hayes</p><p> <br />Alastair MacLennan: Universal nomad</p><p>Nigel Rolfe</p><p> <br />Actuations: Alastair MacLennan's influence on Bbeyond</p><p>Brian Patterson</p><p> <br />Tender dwelling in the strewn</p><p>Adrian Heathfield</p><p> <br />What shall we ask for? Considering the transformative moment in Alastair MacLennan's Actuations</p><p>Sandra Johnston</p><p> <br />Death, transience and duration
  • Alastair MacLennan</p><p>Helge Meyer</p><p> <br />Proximity and perpetrators: Reflecting on implications of registering perpetrators in the performance art of Alastair MacLennan</p><p>Dominic Thorpe</p><p> <br />Triple-AAA: Alastair MacLennan, Adrian Hall & André Stitt</p><p>Spectral Arc, Vanishing Point and Memoranda: Hauntology and atemporality in performances 2011-13</p><p>André Stitt</p><p> <br />Precarious aftermaths</p><p>Paula Blair</p><p> </p><p>Notes on Contributors </p>

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