{"product_id":"caught-in-the-act-a-look-at-contemporary-multimedia-performance-9780893816803","title":"Caught in the Act: A Look at Contemporary Multimedia Performance","description":"\u003cp\u003eCaught in the Act is an exhilarating look at multimedia performance with front-row-center photographs by Dona Ann McAdamns. Her unique vantage is in part due to the enormous respect she has earned from the performers  and it is her key to documenting this ground-breaking type of theater that continuallly challenges the definitions of all the arts. Caught in the Act seizes the energy of paint-squirting  media-mixing Blue Man Group drumming into oblivion  while it resounds with the passionate rants of Karen Finley  and quivers with Pat Oleszkos dazzling costumes of ever-moving appendages.  Covering performance art since is nasence at the East Villages Pyramid Club  the WOW Caf  8BC  and other clubs in the early eighties McAdams became the in-house photo archivist at the infamous performance space  P.S. 122  the home of cutting-edge theater that eschews convention as it draws energy and inspiration from all media. At P.S. 122 and other alternative performance spaces such as The Kitchen and Dance Theater Workshop  McAdams developed her long-term relationships with many performers.  C. Carr is a Village Voice writer and a long-recognized cultural critic of the New York underground arts movement; in her personal and insightful introduction to Caught in the Act  she writes  \"The key to McAdamss work is the relationship she has with the artists. She empathizes. They trust.\" It is this collaborative approach that has allowed McAdams to faithfully represent the rage  courage  integrity  and creative force of such varied artists as Diamand Gals  Holly Hughes  Ishmael Houston-Jones  John Kelly  DANCENOISE  Ethyl Eichelberger  and David Wojnarowicz--and this is only a small sampling of the performers featured here.  Caught in the Act celebrates the spirit that links all artists across their different disciplines and aesthetics. The wonderful coexistence of disparate sensibilities in this publication underscores the very nature of this hybrid art. At the same time  it features many artists who  while focusing primarily on a particular medium  have expanded the context for that medium and pioneered the boundlessness  the marvelous sense of possibility that so distinguishes this contemporary manifestation of performance.  This sleek book of black-and-white photographs printed in duotone includes contributions of words  drawings  and scores from some of the pictured performers  including many of those listed above  as well as Penny Arcade  John Bernd  Eric Bogosian  Allen Ginsberg  Philip Glass  Meredith Monk  Tim Miller  and many others.  A performance poet in the beat tradition who has been reading and performing since the early seventies  Eileen Myles also contributes a moving Afterword with her poem  \"the Troubador.\" Taken altogether Caught in the Act is as much of the artists as it is about them. This Aperture publication is an entirely original and broad collection of work by some of the most gifted artists of our time.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45652391624757,"sku":"ByrdShop_0893816809","price":112.71,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780893816803.jpg?v=1781851385","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/caught-in-the-act-a-look-at-contemporary-multimedia-performance-9780893816803","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}