From Object to Performance

From Object to Performance identifies, analyses, and critically contemplates the advent of a "performance mentality" and the gradual maturation of a "performative turn" in Israeli art.

Dror Harari is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Theatre Arts, Tel Aviv University, Israel.

Introduction 1. Documented, Undocumented, Lost: On Writing the History of Past Israeli Performance Art 2. The 1960s: The Emergence of a Performative Mentality and Practice 3. Outdoor Art Activities, 1970-1974: In Search of a "New Earth" 4. Engaging the Body, Contesting Collective Identity: Performance Art after the Yom Kippur War of 1973 5. Site-Specificity and Identity Politics: Pinchas Cohen Gan's 1970s Critical Art Activities 6. The Emergence of Performance Art at Bezalel: Pedagogy, Actions, and Protest 7. Yona Fischer: Curatorship and the Transition from Object to Performance 8. Epilogue: 76, 79... and Onwards