In-action by Caroline Lillian Schopp - 9780226839196

In-actionViennese Actionism and the Passivities of Performance Art\nAuthor(s): Caroline Lillian Schopp\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: The University of Chicago Press, United States\nImprint: University of Chicago Press\nISBN-13: 9780226839196, 978-0226839196\nSynopsis\nA novel approach to performance art and its history that revisits Viennese Actionism, one of the most controversial episodes of the 1960s.\n Viennese Actionism represents a notorious case within art history, often cited but little studied, especially in the United States. By carefully looking at the unsettling performances that define this movement, Caroline Lillian Schopp offers a vital corrective to the narrative. Schopp observes that contrary to the reception of their graphic violence, many performances explore passivity, vulnerability, and dependence in gestures of in-action. Viennese Actionism registers hesitations about the liberatory ethos of the 1960s, amplified by Austrias marginalized postwar social and artist.