Performing Political Acts: Performance Art in Northern Ireland: Ritual, Catharsis and Transformation

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Author
Stitt, Andre
Date
2015-01Type
Book chapter
Publisher
Intellect Books/Live Art Development Agency
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Since the early nineteen seventies artists have been creating performances, art actions, interventions, and other time-based art in Northern Ireland during a period of traumatic civil conflict.
I explore how and why radical art was made in an environment of political conflict taking place in a developed western society, such as Northern Ireland, and if this art, produced through performance, contributes to personal and/or societal conflict transformation.
Citation
Stitt, A. (2015) Performing Political Acts: Performance Art in Northern Ireland: Ritual, Catharsis and Transformation (2015), Performance Art in Ireland: A History, Ed. Phillips, A.,Intellect, Bristol, LADA London
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I present examples of my own formative engagement with performance art in Belfast during the nineteen seventies along with examples of simultaneous engagements by other artists from this period through to the present.
Sponsorship
Arts Council of Ireland, Arts Council of England
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- Artistic Research [180]
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