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The Guerilla Guide to Performance Art Related titles The Guerilla Film Makers Handbook, 2nd edition Chris Jones and Genevieve Jolliffe The Guerilla Guide to the Music Business Sarah Davies and Dave Laing The Guerilla Guide to Performance Art Leslie Hill Helen Paris continuum L O N D O N • N E W Y O R K Continuum The Tower Building 11 York Road London SE1 7NX 15 East 26th Street New York, NY 10010 First published 2001 This edition published 2004 © Leslie Hill and Helen Paris 2001 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. ISBN 0-8264-7398-9 (paperback) Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Hill, Leslie, 1967- The Guerilla Guide to Performance Art / Leslie Hill and Helen Paris / p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index ISBN 0-8264-7398-9 1. Performance art-Management. 2. Performance art-Marketing. I. Paris, Helen, 1968-11. Title. NX600.P47 H55 2001 702'.8'l-dc21 2001028025 Layout and design by Leslie Hill and Helen Paris Printed and bound in Great Britain by CPD Wales Ebbw Vale for Lois and Lois Acknowledgements First and foremost our deepest thanks to all the incredible people who have contributed their personal expertise and passion so generously to this book. In a field that has no straightforward recipes for success or even financial survival, we like to think of this book as a well stocked bar of diverse experiences and insights where hard working guerillas can refresh themselves in good company. The strength of this book is in the tremendous range of wit, wisdom, strategies and sheer bloody mindedness of the contributing artists and administrators. Thank you all!!! Special thanks to Manick Govinda and the staff of Artsadmin, London for their support of the project. Special thanks also to Dean Helen Swain and the London College of Music and Media and the Institute for Studies in the Arts, Arizona State University for research support towards this project. Tremendous thanks to Janet Joyce and Val Hall of Continuum for their enthusiasm for the project and all their support on helping these pages get to press. Posthumous thanks to Lawrence Steger for the true guerilla inspiration of his life and performance work. Grand Finale thanks to the multi-talented Ian Grant (iBoy) who not only helped us tremendously with formatting this book in Adobe InDesign, but also rewired the electrics in our kitchen! What a pal! VI Contents Introduction 1 Section 1: Artists in Profile 3 Boby Baker 4 Johanes Biringer 10 Laurie Beth Clarke 18 Toni Dove 25 Leslie Hil 3 Hsin-Chien Huang 40 Joe Lawlor, desperate optimists 43 Tim Miler 50 Helen Paris 58 Guilermo Gomez—Peña 64 Nancy Reily McVitie 69 Vanesa Richards, Manafest 76 Rachel Rosenthal 81 Stelarc 84 Julie Tolentino 8 Lois Weaver 95 James Yarker, Stan's Cafe 105 Section 2: Organizations in Profile 109 Introduction 10 Judith Knight & Gil Lloyd, Artsadmin 111 Sara Diamond, The Banf Centre 114 Thomas Mulready, Cleveland Performance Art Festival 120 Barry Smith, Performance Arts Digital Research Unit 131 Paul Couilard, FADO 136 Martha Wilson, Franklin Furnace 147 Guerilla Performance and Multimedia Lizbeth Goodman, INMPR 156 Sophie Cameron, New Work Network 160 Kathy McArdle, Project Arts Centre 165 Tanja Farman, queerupnorth 170 Section 3: Funding 177 Introduction 178 Daniel Brine, Live Art Development Agency 183 Paula Brown, London Arts 185 Helen Cole, Arnolfini 189 Mark Dey, WestMidlands Arts 193 Manick Govinda, Artsadmin 196 Lois Keidan, Live Art Development Agency 200 Richard Loveles, ISA 204 Mark Waugh, Arts Council of England 206 Section 4: Production 209 Introduction 210 Emma Wilson, Lighting Designer 213 Zara Waldebeck, Film & Video Production 225 Ian Grant, Digital Production 236 Section 5: Documentation & Marketing 247 Introduction 248 Chris Lord, Marketing & PR 249 Frances McMahon Ward, Demo Tapes 257 Tony Nandi, Photography & Digital Imaging 262 viii Contents Section 6: Stay Out of Jail 265 Introduction 26 Steve Ehrlicher, Accountant 267 Charlote Jones, Director of ITC 287 Ursula Smartt, Performance, Multimedia & Copyright Laws 290 Contacts 305 Contributors 318 ix
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