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 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.

Featuring artists through new exclusive interviews and contributions including Marina Abramovic, Jelili Atiku, Ron Athey, Franko B, Niya B, Marisa Carnesky, Cheslea Coon, Victor Martinez Diaz, Rufus Elliot, Ernst Fischer, Louis Fleischauer, Poppy Jackson, Mirabelle Jones, Andre Molodkin, Hermann Nitsch, ORLAN, Mike Parr, Greta Sharp, tjb, and Paola Paz Yee and reference to many more.

Alongside new essays by leading phenomenological and interdisciplinary art scholars and philosophers including T. J. Bacon, Chelsea Coon, Stuart Grant, Kelly Jordan, Lynn Lu, Roberta Mock, Amber Mussar and Raegan Truax. 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, visual art, fine art, phenomenology and performance philosophy.

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgements

Introduction: The Phenomenology of Bloody Performance Art!

T J Bacon, Chelsea Coon

Part I: The Phenomenology of Bloody Pain

T J Bacon

I. Intentionality of a Moment ? Three stages of a reduction

Stuart Grant

II. In Conversation ? Franko B and Andrei Molodkin

T J Bacon, Chelsea Coon, Becky Haghpanah-Shirwan`

III. In Conversation ? Louis Fleischauer and Ernst Fischer

T J Bacon

IV. Blood Rituals - A Provocation to Queer a Phenomenological Soil

T J Bacon

V. In Conversation - Hermann Nitsch

T J Bacon

VI. The Phenomenology of the Visceral Response

Lynn Lu

VII. In Conversation ? Mike Parr

T J Bacon

Part II: The Phenomenology of Bloody Care

T J Bacon

VIII. Being shattered ? fragility and our psychogenesis

Kelly Jordan

IX. In Conversation ? ORLAN and Marina Abramović

T J Bacon, Kelly Jordan

X. Experiential Traces: The Aesthetic of Absence

Chelsea Coon

XI. In Conversation ? Mirabelle Jones and Chelsea Coon

Chelsea Coon

XII. In Conversation - Paola Paz Yee and Victor Martinez Diaz

Chelsea Coon

XIII. Tainted Blood? Thinking Blood and Bleeding with Race

Amber Jamilla Musser

XIV. In Conversation - Jelili Atiku

Chelsea Coon

Part III: The Phenomenology of Bloody Disruption

T J Bacon

XV. The fluidity or transmutability of borders held in the lived body of trans and non-binary bodies

T J Bacon

XVI. In Conversation ? tjb and Ron Athey

Chelsea Coon

XVII. Bleeding Pulsing Biding Time - Durational Performance and Phenomenological Unmuting in the work of MC Coble

Raegan Truax

XVIII. Reclaiming the body: blood, trauma, protest

Roberta Mock

XIX. In Conversation - Marisa Carnesky and Poppy Jackson

T J Bacon

References

Index