The Transformative Power Of Performance Av Erika (Free University Of Berlin Germany) Fischer-Lichte

<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>