After Criticism: New Responses to Art and Performance

List of Illustrations vii

Notes on Contributors viii

Series Editor’s Preface xi

Introduction: The Paradoxes of Criticism 1
Gavin Butt

Part I Performing Art’s Histories 21

1 Solo Solo Solo 23
Rebecca Schneider

2 Binding to Another’s Wound: Of Weddings and Witness 48
Jane Blocker

3 This is I 65
Niru Ratnam

Part II Distracted and Bored: The Critic Looks Elsewhere 79

4 The Trouble with Men, or, Sex, Boredom, and the Work of Vaginal Davis 81
Jennifer Doyle

5 Utopia’s Seating Chart: Ray Johnson, Jill Johnston, and Queer Intermedia as System 101
José Esteban Muñoz

6 Looking Away: Participations in Visual Culture 117
Irit Rogoff

Part III Critical Response/Performative Process 135

7 Itinerant Improvisations: From “My Favorite Things” to an “agency of night” 137
John Seth

8 The Experience of Art as a Living Through of Language 156
Kate Love

9 A Transparent Lecture 176
Matthew Goulish

Selected Bibliography 207
compiled by Andrew Walby

Index 212