Excessive: Performance, Confrontation, and the 1970s -- Dominic Johnson and David J. Getsy in Conver

Presented by: The Horse Hospital

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0	LONDON: The Horse Hospital
P	Saturday 26th October, 2019
N	2:00pm

Event information

A conversation between David Getsy and Dominic Johnson illuminating the historical, social and cultural context of the ‘gutter art’ of Stephen Varble and the wider para-theatrical traditions it sprang from.


In the United Kingdom and the United States, the 1970s were a time of economic anxiety and uncertainty. This decade also saw the flourishing of performance art that was confrontational to commercialism, to propriety, and to the public. Dominic Johnson, author of Unlimited Action: The Performance of Extremity in the 1970s, and David Getsy, curator of The Gutter Art of Stephen Varble: Genderqueer Performance in the 1970s, will discuss the ways in which performance artists infiltrated public discourses, created extreme or aggressive works, and brought new questions about gender and sexuality to the fore.