Transformative Power of Performance

<p>In this book Erika Fischer-Lichte traces the emergence of performance as 'an art event' in its own right. In setting performance art on an equal footing with the traditional art object she heralds a new aesthetics.</p><p>The peculiar mode of experience that a performance provokes – blurring distinctions between artist and audience body and mind art and life – is here framed as the breeding ground for a new way of understanding performing arts and through them even wider social and cultural processes.</p><p>With an introduction by Marvin Carlson this translation of the original Ästhetik des Performativen addresses key issues in performance art experimental theatre and cultural performances to lay the ground for a new appreciation of the artistic event.</p>