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Collection of short, critical writings on contemporary art, performance, and photography written over the course of two decades. These include essays and interviews, profiles and reviews. They were originally published in a variety of settings, including art magazines and exhibition catalogues, online journals and websites. 49 b&w illus.
Cover -- The Performing Observer -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Original Sources of Publication -- Preface: The Performing Observer -- PART I: PERFORMANCE -- 1. Chris Burden, Iggy Pop, and the Aesthetics of Early 1970s Performance Art (2004) -- 2. Laurie Anderson's Adventures in George W. Bush's America (2005) -- 3. David Cross's Confounding Hybridity (2018) -- 4. Richard Maloy: Try and Try Again (2010) -- 5. Victoria Singh: The Waiting Room (2014) -- 6. Interview with Artist Catherine Bagnall (2015) -- 7. 'My Life Is One Big Experiment': A Conversation with Laurie Anderson (2020) -- PART II: PHOTOGRAPHY -- 8. Francis Alÿs and Photography: Snapshots from an Indefinite Vacation (2007) -- 9. William Eggleston on Film (2006) -- 10. 'Vaguely Stealthy Creatures': Max Kozloff on the Poetics of Street Photography (2002) -- 11. Vantage Points and Vanishing Spaces: Ann Shelton (2008) -- 12. Imagined Landscapes and Subterranean Simulacra (2011) -- 13. Gregory Crewdson: In a Lonely Place (2013) -- 14. On Taryn Simon's 2007 series An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar (2010) -- 15. On the Recent Photographs of Simon Mark (2010) -- 16. Talking Around (and Around) Yvonne Todd (2012) -- 17. Cindy Sherman: Morphing Changeling (2016) -- PART III: PUBLICNESS -- 18. Encounter (2009) -- 19. On False Leads, Readymades and Seascapes (2008) -- 20. Hope Is Not About What We Expect (2011) -- 21. Echoes, Signs, Disruptions (2015) -- 22. Billy Apple: Mercurial Consistency (2015) -- 23. Reorientations (2018) -- PART IV: VIDEO -- 24. Shannon Te Ao: A torch and a light (cover) (2015) -- 25. Watching Sean Grattan's HADHAD (2015) -- 26. On Mike Heynes: Video Art, Animation and Activist Critique (2016) -- 27. Pat Badani: [in time time] (2008) -- 28. Bogdan Perzynski: Selected Photographic Documents and Video Works (2011).