Chronotope – Topoi – Cynicism, or How Art Responds to the Transformation of the Public Suzana Marjanić, Art of Peformance and Kinism, Afterword by Silva Kalcic, Editor (original) (raw)
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Suzana Marjanić, Art of Peformance and Cynism, Afterword by Silva Kalcic, Editor We consider Suzana Marjanić to be the most important researcher, chronicler and promoter of the practice of performance art in Croatia, a relevant artistic medium of the 20th and the 21st centuries, from its proto- and pre-performative practices and forms up to the present moment. This is her third book, but second copublished by HS AICA and Durieux, dedicated to local performance art which it places in a wider cultural and social context. The author has been publishing scientific studies and articles on the subject of history and theory of performance art in Croatia since 1998: in the journal of performing arts Frakcija, in a series of interviews in the bi-weekly journal of culture and society Zarez, in the tri-tome edition The Chronotope of Croatian Performance Art: From Traveleri to the Present Day (2014), as well as in the book in which she summarises hitherto research entitled The Topoi of Performance Art: A Local Perspective (2017).
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