Performance Studies
Dissertations in Progress by Subject, 2011

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Albu, Cristina, “Mirror Affect: Interpersonal Spectatorship in Installation Art since the 1960s” (Pittsburgh, T. Smith)

Askren-Dangeli, Mique’l, “‘Dancing on Tears’: Northwest Coast First Nations Dance and Performative Practices” (University of British Columbia, C. Townsend-Gault)

Dees, Janet, “The Evidence of Things Not Seen: Performance Art as Art History” (Delaware, A. Gibson)

Hanas, Erin, “Experimental Aesthetics, and Artistic Interventions: Wolf Vostell’s Fluxus Zug” (Duke, K. Stiles)

Harnett, Gerald, “Recorded Objects and Couterauras: Art, Technical Reproducibility, Cybernetics, 1952–1962 (Stony Brook University, A. Uroskie)

Kalinsky, Yelena, “Collective Actions: Moscow Conceptualism, Performance, and the Archive, 1976–1989” (Rutgers, J. Sharp)

Lacis, Indra, “Marina Abramovic and Shirin Neshat: Collaboration, Performance, and the Executive Female Artist” (Case Western Reserve, E. Landau)

Maydanchik, Michelle, “Creative Disruption: Performance Art in Post-Soviet Moscow” (Chicago, M. Jackson)

Ming, Leta, “Making and Unmaking the Museum: Tom Marioni and the San Francisco Museum of Conceptual Art, 1968–1979” (USC, R. Meyer)

Myers, Cerise, “The Visible Posthuman: Envisioning Agency for the Cybernetic Self in Digital Culture” (Minnesota, J. Blocker)

Oh, Gyung Eun, “Music and Time: Relation of Nam June Paik’s Early Works to Video Art” (Rutgers, A. Zervigón)

Pezolet, Nicola, “Spectacles Plastiques: Reconstruction and the Debates on the ‘Synthesis of the Arts’ in France, 1944–1962” (MIT, C. Jones)

Stanek, Damon, “Seeing the Light: A History of the Projected Image in the Gallery (1963–Present)” (CUNY, C. Bishop)

Weil, Harry, “To Live Again: The Possibilities of Reperformance in 20th-Century Arts” (Stony Brook University, Z. Patterson)

Westerman, Jonah, “Standard Deviations: Reality, Reproducibility, and Politics in Performance Art since 1989” (CUNY, C. Bishop)