Volume 2 of Performance [Performance] and Performers.

A collection of nine essays written between 1976 and 2006 by artist, writer, curator, and educator, Bruce Barber. Edited by artist, writer, and educcator, Marc Leger.

Contents:

Essays on Performance, [Performance]

Common ground: Acconci, Schneeman, Jonas and Oppenheim; Problems in the taxonomy of performance and body art; A book review of RoseLee Goldberg, Performance: Live Art 1909 to the Present; Performance for instruction and performance for pleasure; The function of performance in postmodern culture; Audience, crowd and state; Notes towards an adequate interventionist [performance] practice; Jubal Brown's blague: The sovereign consciousness of in/subordination; Three modes of Canadian performance in the nineties; Cultural interventions in the public sphere