Download or read book Performing Endurance written by Lara Shalson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-18 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a formal account and theory of endurance as a practice in performance art and protest. Discusses influential performances by Marina Abramović, Chris Burden, Tehching Hsieh, Yoko Ono, and others, as well as 1960s lunch counter sit-ins and twenty-first-century protest camps. Essential reading in performance theory, art history, and political activism.