No Innocent Bystanders
Performance Art and Audience
Frazer Ward

Dartmouth College Press



Contents

Introduction: Reimagining the Audience
• Performance after Minimalism: Fantasies of Public and Private
• Acconci: “Public space is wishful thinking.”
• Burden: “I’d set it up by telling a bunch of people, and that would make it happen.”
• Abramović: “You can stop. You don’t have to do this.”
• Hsieh: “For me, the audience is secondary. However, without them my performances couldn’t exist.”
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index




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