Performance Art in Practice: Pedagogical by Aapo Kustaa Korkeaoja PAPERBACK

Performance Art in PracticePedagogical Approaches\nAuthor(s): Aapo Kustaa Korkeaoja\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Intellect, United Kingdom\nImprint: Intellect Books\nISBN-13: 9781789388541, 978-1789388541\nSynopsis\nPerformance Art in practice pedagogical approaches opens up a variety of philosophies that explore,explain and challenge Performance art and introduces a range of practices used in higher level education.\nThe book is a collection of nine independent essays. All the writers have several years of practice as artists,curators, teachers, professors, researchers and in establishing performance art education in Finland. Theessays explain, challenge and deconstruct performance art from various angles: the body as a tool and abase of identity, self as material, pedagogic acts of dissidence, challenging societal questions withoutpoliticing art, building sustainable artwork based on emotions, intuition and research, using Fluxus scores incontemporary practices etc. are all topi.