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The many headed monster : the audience of contemporary performance /

"[A] resource for anyone interested in contemporary performance practices and their relationships with audiences. The many headed monster is a boxed set containing a lecture complete with presentation instructions, extended notes and author's commentaries, a DVD of 22 performance works by...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sofaer, Joshua, 1972- (Author)
Format: Video DVD
Language:English
Published: [London] : Live Art Development Agency, 2009.
Subjects:
Performing arts > Audiences.
Performance art.
Interactive art.
Audiences > Psychology.
Table of Contents:
  • DVD: Introduction: Auditorium / Ian Breakwell and Ron Geesin (1993; 1:15)
  • Pre-performance: The class club / Duckie (2006; 1:08)
  • Kidnap blipvert / Blast Theory (1998; :46)
  • Untitled action for bomb shelter Kuopio / Kira O'Reilly (2003; :42)
  • Imponderabilia / Marina Abramović & Ulay (1977; :45)
  • Seedbed / Vito Acconci (1972; :22)
  • Invisible dances-- from afar / Bock & Vincenzi (2003; 1:02)
  • Super night shot / Gob Squad (2003; 1:03)
  • Performance: Soya sauce and ketchup fight / Mad for Real (JJ Xi and Cai Yuan) (2000; 1:01)
  • The great white way : 22 miles, 9 years, 1 street / William Pope. L (2001-ongoing; 32)
  • Ghost dance / Lone Twin (2008; 1:47)
  • Radio ballet / LIGNA (2003; :53)
  • Action 122 / Hermann Nitsch (2005; 1:02)
  • Undiscovered Amerindians / Coco Fusco and Guillermo Gómez-Peña (1992; :51)
  • Post porn modernist / Annie Sprinkle (1989-1996; 1:14)
  • Post-performance: File under Sacred music / Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard (2003; 1:02)
  • Test site / Carsten Höller (2007; 1:01)
  • Cut piece / Yoko Ono (1965; 1:44)
  • To age / Laura Lima (2004; 1:07)
  • Sky orchestra / Luke Jerram (2006; :36)
  • Say cheese / Oreet Ashery (2002; 1:19)
  • SFMOMA scavengers / Joshua Sofaer (2006; 1:04).
  • Image cards: Animals in the theatre / illustration by Spencer Molan (1808)
  • Pope John Paul II attends World Youth Day activities / Franco Orglia (2004)
  • Queen's audience chamber, the State apartments, Windsor Castle
  • The last car / F. Macleod (1907)
  • Stade Français Rosslyn Park (1892)
  • Art of self defence : Tom and Jerry receiving instructions from Mr. Jackson at his rooms in Bond Street / illustration by I.R. and G. Cruikshank (1823)
  • Christopher Brasher scores a dramatic victory in the steeplechase (1956)
  • Championnat du monde de tennis (1912)
  • Spanish bullfight, Lenia (1916)
  • Colombes crowd (1902)
  • Unknown sports crowd (circa 1910)
  • William Reynolds and the Newbold Verdon cricket team (circa 1888)
  • Men gambling at the Diwali festival / illustrator, Hulas Lal (circa 1830)
  • Scaring gramps / Shreya Shah (2006)
  • Alliance Conference (1957)
  • Spot Princess Diana / Gavin Kent (1985)
  • Ducal family, Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (circa 1900)
  • The wedding of Princess Margaret, Westminster Abbey, May 6, 1960
  • Working class Britain / Bob Thomas (2000)
  • H.M. the King arriving at the Queen's Hotel, Cheltenham (1897)
  • Promenade concert / Eric Auerbach (1981)
  • First nighters (1965)
  • The band stand, Clacton-on-Sea (circa 1930)
  • Butlin's Bognor Regis, The Pig & Whistle Bar / photograph by John Hinde
  • Loyal North Lancs Regiment cheering when ordered to the trenches
  • British wounded heroes at Grammar School Brighton / G.A. Wiles (1914)
  • Surgery theater
  • The 'brit milah' or circumcision ceremony of Brian Lobel (1982)
  • Thousands of people sunbathe under 36c / Vanderlei Almeida
  • The great actor, or Mr Punch in all his glory / illustration designed by Robert Cruikshank (1825)
  • Austria, Xiringüelu dance (circa 1950)
  • Royal Mile, Edinburgh / Jonathan Jones (2006)
  • Watching the sunset / Eni Turkeshi (2007)
  • Caswell Bay, Gower Peninsula (circa 1955)
  • Pastor offers to pay white congregants / Mario Villafuerte (2003)
  • The end is at hand / Al Cane (1979)
  • Mourners / Christine Quirk (2006)
  • Daily graphic photograph from the 1947 tour of South Africa by King George VI
  • King Edward VIII (as Prince of Wales) photographed during his African and South African tour of 1925, Indaba (1927)
  • Toy breed dog show / George Best (2002)
  • The Circus Hall of Fame, Sarasota, Florida (1963)
  • Life drawing / illustration designed by Robert Cruikshank (1825)
  • Firefighers battle against a blazing street during a Blitz sequence from Battle of Britain / photograph by David James (1969)
  • The attack of Mona Lisa's paparazzi ; Mona Lisa's paparazzi / Steven Vanderburg (2008)
  • Photographic montage (circa 1910)
  • Distortions (1957)
  • Liz Taylor / Terry O'Neill (1965)
  • The Mayor of Bootle's garden party (1909)
  • Sofaer & Co., General Merchants and Commission Agents, Rangoon, Burma (circa 1908).