Writing

Harvard professor and art historian Carrie Lambert-Beatty has published texts on dancer and choreographer Yvonne Rainer, collaborative artists Allora & Calzadilla, and parafictional works of art. She is currently writing a book that expands upon her 2009...

"If parafiction started at the end of the 1990s, then it's an interesting phenomenon that arises at a particular point within contemporary art. But now I think it has been part of this thing we call 'contemporary art' from the beginning [c.1989]. That...

"Academia isnʼt contemporary artʼs funeral parlor. It is its current address"

On the aesthetics and politics of recuperation. Dances are listened to, pianists play upside-down and backwards, and audiences re-tune their senses in Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla's inventive works of "delegated performance" (Bishop). I...

"Between 1998 and 2008, artists gave us advertising campaigns for imaginary products, a not-really-censored exhibition, hacked museum audio tours, several never-made movies, a sham supermarket, nonexistent video installations, dubious abortions, a staged...

"A brilliantly vivid description of Rainer, Judson, and art making in the 1960s, Being Watched sets a new scholarly standard for dance and performance studies. Combining impeccable archival work, a nuanced understanding of the drama of vision, and a...