This book examines the recent trend for re-performance and how this
impacts on the relationship between live performance and death. Focusing
specifically on examples of performance art the text analyses the
relationship between performance, re-performance and death, comparing
the process of re-performance to the process of mourning and arguing
that both of these are processes of adaptation and survival. Using a
variety of case studies, including performances by Ron Athey, Julie
Tolentino, Martin O'Brien, Sheree Rose, Jo Spence and Hannah Wilke, the
book explores performances which can be considered acts of
re-performance, as well as performances which examine some of the
critical concerns of re-performance, including notions of illness, loss
and death. By drawing upon both philosophical and performance studies
discourses the text takes a novel approach to the relationship between
re-performance, mourning and death.