Front Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- PART ONE: LIVE ART IN A TIME OF CRISIS -- 1 Artistic Citizenship, Anatopism and the Elusive Public: Live Art in the City of Cape Town -- 2 Upsurge -- 3 'Madam, I Can See Your Penis': Disruption and Dissonancein the Work of Steven Cohen -- 4 The Impossibility of Curating Live Art -- PART TWO: LOSS, LANGUAGE AND EMBODIMENT -- 5 Corporeal HerStories: Navigating Meaning in Chuma Sopotela's Inkukhu Ibeke Iqanda through the Artist's Words -- 6 'A Different Kind of Inhabitance': Invocation and the Politics of Mourning in Performance Work by Tracey Rose and Donna Kukama -- 7 State of Emergency: Inkulumo-Mpendulwano (Dialogue) of Emergent Art When Ukukhuluma (Talking) is Not Enough -- 8 Space is the Place and Place is Time: Refiguring the Black Female Body as a Political Site in Performance -- PART THREE: RETHINKING THE RCHIVE, REINTERPRETING GESTURE -- 9 don't get it twisted: queer performativity and the emptying out of gesture -- 10 Performing the Queer Archive: Strategies of Self-Styling on Instagram -- 11 Effigy in the Archive: Ritualising Performance and the Dead in Contemporary South African Live Art Practice -- PART FOUR: SUPPRESSED HI STORIES AND SPECULATIVE FUTURES -- 12 To Heal a Nation: Performance and Memorialisation in the Zone of Non-Being -- 13 Astronautus Afrikanus: Performing African Futurism -- 14 'Touched by an Angel' (of History) in Athi-Patra Ruga's The Future White Women of Azania -- 15 Performance in Biopolitical Collectivism: A Study of Gugulective and iQhiya -- Contributors -- List of Illustrations -- Index.
Performance art is transgressive and interdisciplinary. Acts of Transgression, an illustrated collection of 15 essays by respected researchers, critically probes where live art and socio-political turbulence intersect in post-apartheid South African society. Focusing on work by 25 contemporary artists, it adds significantly to the field.