Exhibition catalog for "Enacting the Text: Performing With Words"

Identifier:AAR.EC.0229

Publication dates:2016

Description:Catalog for "Enacting the Text: Performing With Words," an exhibition inspired by the fleeting nature of performance and writings impact on these moments on view at Center for Book Arts October 7-December 10, 2016. Organized by Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful, Artist and Independent Curator. CBA copy 1 of 2.

"While performative art practice, with all of its nuances, remains largely fleeting, a significant number of artists, working mainly in interventions, performances, situations, and experiences, have generated a substantial material culture. Whether drafting steps for an action, making lists of performance materials, or giving directions for participants, the use of written language becomes a recurrent element in the enactment of the practice. This exhibition gives center stage to artist books, letters, notes, scripts, and texts produced side-by-side to, or in complicity with, these short-lived gestures." -- description from the Center for Book Arts

Artists included: Maria Alós, Josefina Báez, Paco Cao, Papo Colo, Billy X. Curmano, Irina Danilova, Jean-Ulrick Désert, Lesley Dill, Coco Fusco, Beatrice Glow, Alicia Grullón, Guerilla Girls, Pablo Helguera, Nancy Hwang, Alison Knowles, LuLu LoLo, Linda Mary Montano, Pat Oleszko, Pedro Pietri, Praxis (Brainard and Delia Carey), Quintin Rivera-Toro, Jack Smith, Elizabeth M. Stephens and Annie Sprinkle, Cecilia Vicuña, and Martha Wilson.