Is the Living Body the Last Thing Left Alive? The New Performance Turn, Its Histories and Its Institutions

The book is expanded from the Para Site International Conference 2014, and is dedicated to the renewed encounter between dance and performance and the institutions of global contemporary art. This publication highlights recent efforts of art historians in different parts of the globe to retrace performance genealogies, exploring how non‑Western histories of performance have been recuperated, translated, integrated, or excluded from the new institutional realities of contemporary art.