Viewers in Distress Race, Gender, Religion, and Avant-Garde Performance at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century

• Main Author: Mihaylova, Stefka G. (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: University of Michigan Press 2023
• Subjects: Theatre studies; Performance art; avant-garde performance, contemporary performance in Britain and the United States, feminist theory and performance, affect theory and performance, critical-race theory and performance, performance and liberalism, performance and neoliberalism, Sarah Kane, Suzan-Lori Parks, Forced Entertainment, Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti, Young Jean Lee
• Online Access: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

Conventional notions of avant-garde art suggest innovative artists rebelling against artistic convention and social propriety, shocking unwilling audiences into new ways of seeing and living. Viewers in Distress tells a different story. Beginning in the tumultuous 1990s, after the fall of the Berlin...