ABSTRACT
This book is concerned with the rapprochement between visual and performing arts and the ways that the arts have been transforming in the last two decades. While artists have always experimented with form, collaborating across disciplines and breaking disciplinary boundaries, what is unique about the last decade is how this rapprochement has become manifest at the institutional level. Visual art institutions have increasingly commissioned dance and theater artists to engage with the spaces of the museum. A large number of exhibitions in art galleries have not only embraced theater and dance but have been using durational components and audience engagement as integral to the very process of exhibit-building. Museums have opened and expanded performance departments and have been dealing with concepts otherwise familiar to theater and dance studies, such as ephemerality, the immaterial, the live, the embodied, and dramatic structure.
