[Commlist] New book - Joshua Sofaer: Performance | Objects | Participation

Intellect is pleased to announce that /Joshua Sofaer: Performance | 
Objects | Participation <https://www.intellectbooks.com/joshua-sofaer>, 
/co-edited by Roberta Mock and Mary Paterson, is now available to order.

Joshua Sofaer works across boundaries, borders and disciplines to create 
artworks that engage with all levels of society. In cultural 
institutions or on the street, for art galleries or personal homes, 
staged as operas or cast as golden sculptures, Sofaer’s work weaves with 
and through social fabric to consider the ideas that hold us together.

Co-published with the Live Art Development Agency, this lavishly 
illustrated volume is the first in-depth study of the artist’s work, 
featuring discussions with producers and participants, documentary 
images and a new photographic essay, interviews with the artist himself, 
and thirteen commissioned essays by scholars, curators and artists from 
the perspectives of performance studies, archaeology and opera 
criticism. With a mixture of intellect, humour and striking design, 
/Joshua Sofaer: Performance | Objects | Participation/ analyses the 
artist’s oeuvre in the contexts of liveness, visual art and 
participatory practices. It explores the binding aesthetics of his 
approach as a model for contemporary practice, and it considers the 
impact of his work on audiences, institutions and pedagogy, as well as 
on fine art and performance ecologies as a whole.


*_Table of Contents_*
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*Where Are You From? Or Originally – Joshua Sofaer*

*Introduction:* Nobody Nose: Joshua Sofaer – /Mary Paterson and Roberta 
Mock/

Window Dresser – /Stacy Makishi interviews Joshua Sofaer/

Artist and Star – /Joshua Sofaer/

Joshua Sofaer’s Grammar of the Body – /Roberta Mock/

No Show: Personal Evidence in Public Space, Or The Artist is in 
Withdrawal – /Sibylle Peters/

Teacher's Pet – /Lois Keidan/

Documentation (of a Near Death Experience) – /Robin Deacon/

Back to the Artwork of the Future: Transformation, Emotion, and 
Participation in the Opera-related Works of Joshua Sofaer – /Daniel 
Somerville/

Make Happy Those Who Are Near, and Those Who Are Far Will Come – 
/Yu-Ying Kung, Yuan-Liang An and Yu-Chin Hsiao, with Joshua Sofaer/

Value, Labour, and Presence in the Live Gallery – /Nadia Abdelaziz/

Sibling Disciplines: Objects, Archaeology, and the Art of Joshua Sofaer 
– /Joanna Sofaer/

Trashing the Institution: Disruption and Democratisation at the Science 
Museum – /Sarah Harvey/

Un-Thinking The Rubbish Collection: From Plastics to Plasticity – /Carl 
Lavery/

Naming: Joshua Sofaer's Dramaturgies of Interference in Public Space – 
/Konstantina Georgelou/

Performing Workshops at Home – /Stuart Andrews/

Small Actions, Everyday Encounters: Permission and the Possibility of 
Change in Gold Nose of a Green Finger – /Maddy Costa/

Keep It Opening: Joshua Sofaer's Use of Language – /Mary Paterson/

*Afterword:* Hilarious Hooters and Curious Conks – /Simon Gould/

*Selected Artworks by Joshua Sofaer*

*Contributors

Index
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Please visit our website for more information: 
https://www.intellectbooks.com/joshua-sofaer

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