The Phenomenology of Blood in Performance Art is a major new publication that expands the philosophical contextualisation of blood, its presence and absence, across the practice of performance art from a phenomenological perspective.
Edited by T J Bacon (she/they) and Dr Chelsea Coon (she/her) this book moves beyond an established cannon of artists to ensure an inclusive representation of practices from a wider range of practitioners. First hand interviews and conversations have been gathered from both canonical names as well as individuals who are prevalent in their communities and/or respective subcultures, but less represented within the frameworks of scholarly discourse. Each offers the opportunity to examine their experiences creating artworks and in turn contributes to the context of phenomenological examination within this publication through complementary scholarly texts from leading thinkers who frame phenomenological application to both visual art and transdisciplinary context. Contributions include articles and interview from names such as ORLAN, Marina Abramovic, Prof Robert Mock, Hermann Nitsch, Franko B, Prof Amber Mussar, Dr Lynn Lu, Ron Athey, Jelili Atiku, Paola Paz Yee, Mike Parr, Prof Stuart Grant, Poppy Jackson, Dr Raegan Truax, Niya B, Andre Molodkin, Dr Ernst Fischer, Dr T J Bacon, Victor Martinez Diaz, Dr Chelsea Coon, Rufus Elliot, Dr Mirabelle Jones, Louis Fleischauer, Dr Kelly Jordan and many more. Together they represent a significant exploration of intricate and dynamic responses to the cultural fabric of contemporary lived experiences across space and time through the medium of blood in performance art.
This incredible analysis of this performance art will be of huge interest to students and practitioners of live art, performance art, phenomenology and performance philosophy.
This book is a major new publication that expands the philosophical contextualisation of blood, its presence and absence, across the practice of performance art from a phenomenological perspective.
Acknowledgements
Introduction: The Phenomenology of Bloody Performance Art!
T. J. Bacon and Chelsea Coon
Part I: The Phenomenology of Bloody Pain
T. J. Bacon
1. Intentionality of a Moment: Three Stages of a Reduction
Stuart Grant
2. In Conversation: Franko B and Andrei Molodkin
T. J. Bacon, Chelsea Coon and Becky Haghpanah-Shirwan`
3. In Conversation: Louis Fleischauer and Ernst Fischer
T. J. Bacon
4. Blood Rituals: A Provocation to Queer a Phenomenological Soil
T. J. Bacon
5. In Conversation: Hermann Nitsch
T. J. Bacon
6. The Phenomenology of the Visceral Response
Lynn Lu
7. In Conversation: Mike Parr
T. J. Bacon
Part II: The Phenomenology of Bloody Care
T. J. Bacon
8. Being Shattered: Fragility and Our Psychogenesis
Kelly Jordan
9. In Conversation: ORLAN and Marina Abramovi
T. J. Bacon and Kelly Jordan
10. Experiential Traces: The Aesthetic of Absence
Chelsea Coon
11. In Conversation: Mirabelle Jones and Chelsea Coon
Chelsea Coon
12. In Conversation: Paola Paz Yee and Victor Martinez Diaz
Chelsea Coon
13. Tainted Blood? Thinking Blood and Bleeding with Race
Amber Jamilla Musser
14. In Conversation: Jelili Atiku
Chelsea Coon
Part III: The Phenomenology of Bloody Disruption
T. J. Bacon
15. The Fluidity or Transmutability of Borders Held in the Lived Body of
Trans and Non-Binary Bodies
T. J. Bacon
16. In Conversation: tjb and Ron Athey
Chelsea Coon
17. Bleeding Pulsing Biding Time: Durational Performance and Phenomenological
Unmuting in the work of MC Coble
Raegan Truax
18. Reclaiming the Body: Blood, Trauma, Protest
Roberta Mock
19. In Conversation: Marisa Carnesky and Poppy Jackson
T. J. Bacon
References
Index
T. J. Bacon (she/they) publishing under the name T. J. Bacon and creating artwork using the moniker tjb, Dr Tmei June Bacon is a trans-femme pansexual person with hidden disabilities. Her practice as an artist-philosopher foregrounds transgender studies and phenomenology, alongside queer theory, crip theory, disaster studies, and futures to consider visual art, performance art, activism and curation. She has exhibited internationally for over 20 years with a practice rooted in the elemental and esoteric. She is also the founder and artistic director of Tempting Failure, which produces and supports international visual art, performance art and sonic art. She is currently Resident Researcher at Guildhall School of Music and Drama (GSMD) London, PhD Advisor with the Trans Art Institute and PhD Supervisor with GSMD. She is the lead on the Queer Acts of Hope line of enquiry at the Guildhall De-Centre for Socially Engaged Practice & Research. She is the founder of the Trans+ Virtual Centre of Excellence, an international group of scholars who have formed an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research and advocacy group. This is her second major book about phenomenology and performance art. She lives and works in London.
Chelsea Coon (she/her) is an artist and writer whose work focuses on the shifting interconnections of the body, time, and space. She considers limits of the body and the enduring effects of frameworks as conceptual and literal forms that force the body to act and react through photography, video, performance, painting, sculpture, installation, and text. She has exhibited and performed extensively in galleries, biennales and festivals across North America, Europe, Asia, Southeast Asia, Africa, South America, Australia and the Middle East. Recent solo exhibitions include Heavy Metal at Meno Parkas Gallery, Lithuania; The Probability of All Possible States of the System at Arka Gallery, Lithuania; and deathless at Galleri Kronborg, Norway. Chelsea Coons writings on contemporary art, performance and philosophy are included in experimental and academic publications, magazines, and journals in the US, the UK, Australia, Hong Kong, and Singapore. She lives and works in Los Angeles.