Shannon M Jackson

It's Not Rocket Science, It's Parenthood!: Witty and effective ways to deal with the lunacy of parenthood.

It’s Not Rocket Science, It’s Parenthood! is about the lengthy, tiresome, tedious, sometimes irrational, but ultimately rewarding journey we take as parents. It’s a cut-the-crap, step up to the plate, pull your head out of the sand, parenting guidebook. It is full of innovative and hilarious ideas t...

Public Servants: Art and the Crisis of the Common Good (Critical Anthologies in Art and Culture)

How should we understand the purpose of publicly engaged art in the twenty-first century, when the very term "public art" is largely insufficient to describe such practices?Concepts such as "new genre public art," "social practice," or "socially engaged art" may imply a synergy between the role of a...

The Builders Association: Performance and Media in Contemporary Theater (MIT Press)

This book begins with the building of a house, and the building of a company while building the house. It expands to look at the ideas found in various rooms, some of which expanded into virtual space while they still were grounded in the lives of the artists in the house. -- from the preface by Ma...

EN MAS': Carnival and Performance Art of the Caribbean

EN MAS' is one of the first publications to give serious scholarly attention to contemporary art works considering carnival in the 21st century, filling a gap in two decades of exhibitions of contemporary Caribbean art that did not explicitly address carnival as an artistic practice. A hybrid exhibi...

Andrea Fraser

Controversial, provocative and poignantly humorous, American artist Andrea Fraser (born 1965) is one of the most influential and pioneering figures of her generation and has been captivating a devoted audience for more than 30 years. She employs a wide range of media, including prints, photographs, ...

Coming Through the Waiting Place

Many times throughout my life I have felt lost, abandoned, confused, alone and forgotten by God. Each of these wandering times in The Waiting-Place, has set me up for an on-purpose encounter with Him. It is in these moments that my humanness collides with His Holiness and I am propelled deeper in my...

Professing Performance: Theatre in the Academy from Philology to Performativity (Theatre and Performance Theory)

Contemporary academic discourse is filled with the word "perform". Nestled among a variety of prefixes and suffixes (re-, post-, -ance, -ivity?), the term functions as a vehicle for a host of inquiries. This development is intriguing and complex for students, artists, and scholars of performance and...

Lines of Activity: Performance, Historiography, Hull-House Domesticity

Lines of Activity investigates the cultural life of the Hull-House Settlement of Chicago, one of the most significant reform institutions of the Progressive Era, from its founding in 1889 through its growth into a major social service institution. The study focuses specifically on the role of perfor...

Professing Performance: Theatre in the Academy from Philoogy to Performativity

Professing Performance: Theatre in the Academy from Philoogy to Performativity

Lines of Activity: Performance, Historiography, Hull-House Domesticity

Lines of Activity: Performance, Historiography, Hull-House Domesticity