Product Description: Brave New Avant Garde is a collection of essays that ask the questions: what is an adequate model of contemporary avant garde practice and what are its theoretical premises? With this it asks the related question, echoing Alain Badiou: must the avant garde hypothesis be abandoned? Brave New Avant Garde stands in opposition to postmodern post-politics and the view that radical practice has no other future than its reduction to the workings of the free market in the form of the "simple process of cultural production" or to variations on the cultural politics of representation...read more

Product Description: Performance [Performance] Performers Volume 1 consists of fourteen interviews with leading performance artists in Canada and the U.S. conducted from 1977-2007, and is generously illustrated with photographs of many now landmark art performances.