Performance | Diana Taylor

"Performance" has multiple and often overlapping meanings that signify a wide variety of social behaviors.
In this invitation to reflect on the power of performance, Diana Taylor explores many of its uses and iterations: artistic, economic, sexual, political, and technological performance;
the performance of everyday life;
and the gendered, sexed, and racialized performance of bodies.
This book performs its argument.
Images and texts interact to show how performance is at once a creative act, a means to comprehend power, a method of transmitting memory and identity, and a way of understanding the world.