Performance Art in Portugal by Cludia Madeira - 9781032182667

Performance Art in PortugalAuthor(s): Cludia Madeira\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781032182667, 978-1032182667\nSynopsis\nThis book explores histories which have only recently been rediscovered by artists and researchers. \n\nThis study explores the history of Portuguese performance art, in its various \""speculative\"" and \""performative\"" forms. The author approaches this relationship with the re-emergence and centrality of these (semi-)peripheral histories at an international level, whilst identifying some of their unique traits: their cycles of emergence and retraction in Portuguese history; their multiple and complex ontologies; the intertwined relations between the art of performance and the social performance of the Portuguese (regarding topics as sensitive and fracturing as those of the long dictatorship, the colonial war and the revolutionary process, or even the integration of Portugal in the European C.