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PERFORMING ARTS JOURNAL Volume XVIII January * May ¢ September 1996 EDITORS Bonnie Marranca and Gautam Dasgupta ASSOCIATE EDITORS Daryl Chin Larry Qualls CONTRIBUTING EDITORS Johannes Birringer Herbert Blau Richard Foreman Gerald Rabkin Marc Robinson Carl Weber Published for PAJ Publications by THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS 2715 North Charles Street Baltimore, Maryland 21218-4319 Copyright © 1996 The Johns Hopkins University Press. PERFORMING ARTS JOURNAL Volume XVIII No. 1 * PA]5 2 MINA LOY’S FUTURIST THEATRE Julie Schmid TWO PLAYS Mina Loy FORGETTING, ERASURE, AND THE CRY OF THE BILLY GOAT: Berlin Theatre Five Years After Chris Salter A DREAM PLAY BY HEINER MULLER Carl Weber DREAMTEXT: THE NIGHT OF THE DIRECTORS Heiner Miiller ART & PERFORMANCE NOTES ELECTRONIC VERSES: Reading the Body vs. Touching the Text Lisa Jaye Young HANNAH WILKE: The Intra-Venus Photographs Hanne Tierney OUTSIDE THE FRAME Alison Knowles A GROTESQUE FUGUE Yvette Biré GREEK-AUSTRALIAN ODYSSEYS IN A MULTICULTURAL WORLD Maria Shevtsova A NOTE ON PACIFIC DREAMS Daryl Chin PACIFIC DREAMS: Currents of Surrealism and Fantasy in California Art Susan Ehrlich PETER BROOK : The Man Who... Gautam Dasgupta JOINING UP THE DOTS Claire MacDonald LA MELANCOLIA DE LA JAULA: (The Melancholy of the Cage) Johannes Birringer Volume XVIII ¢ No. 2 * PAJ 53 THEATRE, NATIONALISM, AND DISINTEGRATION OF THE FORMER YUGOSLAVIA PRELUDE TO A WAR Naum Panovski 2 ON NATIONALISM Danilo Kis 13 NATIONALIST SENTIMENTALITY: Ideology of the Crowd Mirko Kovac 18 A LETTER TO MY CO-CITIZENS Mira Furlan 20 LIVING IN SOLITARY CONFINEMENT Radko Polic 25 THE OTHER SERBIA Mirjana Miocinovic 27 ART & PERFORMANCE NOTES ANNETTE MESSAGER’S DEAD(LY) BOOKS Jan Corbett THE WEB OF MEMORY Claude Simard SPIRITUAL MINIMALISM Lisa Jaye Young MOVING IMAGES Robert C. Morgan THE NEW EUROPE Bjorn Norgaard IN THREE PARTS Matthew Ritchie POP-ACTION Elizabeth Streb THE WITKIN CARNIVAL Maria Christina Villasenor BRAINS IN TOYLAND: The Season at Harvard Elinor Fuchs UNDER THE KNIFE: A History of Medicine Theodora Skipitares BOOKS & COMPANY QUEER MUSIC John M. Clum SEX AND OPERA BarryV . Qualls Volume XVIII * No. 3 * PA] 54 CONTEMPORARY VIDEO FIVE VIDEO ARTISTS Larry Qualls VIDEO SPACES Barbara London WRITING ON A WHITE PAPER Maria Antonella Pelizzari AS TIME GOES BY: The Century of Cinema Daryl Chin ART & PERFORMANCE NOTES HYMNS OF REPETITION Bonnie Marranca NO SENSE OF ABSOLUTE REBELLION Mark Zimmermann THE ARCHITECTURE OF POSSIBILITY Matthew Ritchie DIGGING AROUND THE RUINS OF UTOPIA Yvette Biré ENDURANCE ART THE A-Z TRAVEL TRAILER UNITS Andrea Zittel NUDITY AND TEXTUALITY IN POSTMODERN PERFORMANCE Karl Toepfer DEMOCRACY! Act II Joseph Brodsky