Overview

This book examines the recent trend for re-performance and how this impacts on the relationship between live performance and death. Focusing specifically on examples of performance art, the text analyses the relationship between performance, re-performance, and death, comparing the process of re-performance to the process of mourning and arguing that both of these are processes of adaptation and survival.

Case Studies

Using a variety of case studies, including performances by Ron Athey, Julie Tolentino, Martin O’Brien, Sheree Rose, Jo Spence, and Hannah Wilke, the book explores performances which can be considered acts of re-performance, as well as performances which examine some of the critical concerns of re-performance, including notions of illness, loss, and death.

Theoretical Approach

By drawing upon both philosophical and performance studies discourses, the text takes a novel approach to the relationship between re-performance, mourning, and death.