National Performing Arts Presenters

‍Art Nomade • Saguenay, Québec
AxeNéo-7 • Gatineau, Québec
FADO • Toronto, Ontario
Galerie du Nouvel Ontario, FAAS • Sudbury,
Ontario
‍Galerie SAW Gallery • Ottawa, Ontario
‍Je-st • Moncton, Ontario
L'Écart, Biennale d’art performatif • Rouyn-
Noranda, Québec
‍LIVE Biennial • Vancouver, British-Columbia
‍Open Space • Victoria, British-Columbia
‍Neutral Ground • Regina, Saskatchewan
‍Queer City Cinema, Performatorium • Regina, Saskatchewan
Rencontre internationale d'art performance de Québec (‍RIAP) • Québec City, Québec
‍‍‍The Toronto Performance Art Collective, 7a11d • Toronto, Ontario
‍Viva! art action • Montréal, Québec

Online Reading Material

Auslander, Philip
‍The Performativity of Performance Documentation

Austin, L
Lectures I and II, from "how to do things with words"
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‍Barber, Bruce  
‍Sentences on Littoral Art
‍Paragraphs on Littoral Art
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‍Bateman, David  
‍Performance Art as Cultural Effacement
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‍Becker, Carol
Afterthoughts: Stilling the World
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‍Bishop, Claire  
‍Participation
‍The Social Turn: Collaboration and its Discontents
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‍Blessing, Jennifer
Rrose is a Rrose is a Rrose: Gender Performance in Photography
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‍Butler, Judith  
‍Performative Acts and Gender Constitution
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‍Case, Sue-Ellen  
Towards a Butch Femme Aesthetic, in "Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader"
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Cleto, Fabio  
‍Camp: Queer Aesthetics and the Performing
Subject
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‍Critical Art Ensemble  
‍Electronic Civil Disobedience
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‍Debord, Guy
‍The Situationists and New Forms of Action in Politics of Art, in the "Situationist International
Anthology"
Theory of the Dérive
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‍Feral, Josette  
Performance and Theatricality: The Subject
Demystified
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‍Fried, Michel  
Art and Objecthood
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‍Friedman, Ken with Owen Smith and Lauren
Sawchyn  
‍The Fluxus Performance Workbook
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‍Fusco, Coco  
The Other History of Intercultural Performance
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‍Goldberg, Rosalee
Performance Art: From Futurism to Present
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‍Gomez-Pena, Guillermo with Roberto Sifuentes and Lisa Wolford
‍Away From the Surveillance Camera of the Art World: Strategies for Collaboration and Community Activism
Ethno-Techno: Writings on Performance, Activism, and Pedagogy
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‍Gonzales, Anxo Abuin  
Dramaturgies of Excess and Heterological Theatres
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‍Houston, Andrew
Site-Specific Performance: The ‘Thirdspace’ of Canadian Theatre
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‍Jackson, Shannon  
Professing Performance: Disciplinary Genealogies
‍Johnson, Dominic  
Ron Athey’s Visions of Excess: Performance After Georges Bataille
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‍Jones, Amelia
Dis/playing the phallus: male artists perform their masculinities
'Presence’ in Absentia: Experiencing Performance as Documentation
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‍Jones, Amelia and Andrew Stephenson  
‍Performing the Body, Performing the Text
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‍Kaye, Nick
Site-Specific Art: Performance, Place and Documentation
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‍Kaprow, Allan  
‍Essays on The Blurring of Art and Life, edited by Jeff Kelley
Happenings in the New York Scene
‍The Legacy of Jackson Pollock
‍Some Recent Happenings
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‍Kester, Grant  
‍Conversation Pieces: Community and
Communication in Contemporary Art
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‍Kirby, Michael  
‍‘The New Theater’ in Happenings and Other Acts
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‍Krauss, Rosalind
‍Video: the Aesthetics of Narcissism
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‍Kwon, Miwon
‍One Place After Another: Site-Specific Art and
Locational Identity
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‍Lebel, Sabine  
‍Camping Out with the Lesbian National Parks and Services
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‍McCarthy, Kevin F
‍The Performing Arts in a New Era
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‍Munoz, Jose  
‍Disidentifications
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‍Neislony, Boris  
‍Performance Chart

‍O’Donnell, Darren  
‍Social Acupuncture
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‍Paterson, Andrew James  
‍Performative Impulses in Lux: A Decade of Artists’ Film and Video
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‍The Performance Group  
‍Group Dionysus in 69

‍Powell, Benjamin D. and Tracey Stephenson
Shaffer
‍The Haunting of Performance Studies

‍Reason, Matthew
Archive or Memory? The Detritus of Live Performance
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‍Schechner, Richard  
Introduction to Performance Theory
Introduction to Performance Theory: Online Exercises and video links
‍Six Axioms of Environmental Theatre
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‍Schneider, Rebecca  
‍The Explicit Body in Performance
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‍Sholette, Gregory  
‍REPOhistory
‍On Intervention
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‍Smith, David  
A Brief History of Dada
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‍Smith, Richard Candida  
‍Art and The Performance of Memory
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‍Snider, Jennifer J
Art Administration as Performative Practice/Organizing Art as Institutional Critique
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‍Stiles, Kristine  
‍Performance Art

‍Thompson, Nato  
‍The Interventionists: Users’ Manual for the Creative Disruption of Everyday Life
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‍Wagner, Anne  
‍Performance, Video and the Rhetoric of Presence
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‍Wrights & Sights  
‍A Manifesto for a New Walking Culture
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‍Zabunyan, Elvan
‍Stratum and Resonance: Displacement in the Work of Renee Green
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