Description: Performance on the Edge takes the reader on a journey across geographical borders and conceptual boundaries in order to map out the new territory of contemporary theatre, dance, media arts and activism. Working across social, cultural and political fault lines, the book explores performance as both process and contact, as the commitment to political activism and the reconstruction of community, as site-specific intervention into the social and technological structures of abandonment, and as the highly charged embodiment of erotic fantasies.
Review Quotes: 'A book which finally displaces the most compelling issues about identity and culture in the contemporary world from their academic milieu into unusaul and often breathtaking artistic enactment. Placing the reader evocatively inside the productions of culturally and geographically diverse performances, Performance on the Edge uniquely restores life, love and creativity to culture theory.' George Marcus, Professor of Anthropology, Rice University