Acts of Transgression, edited by Jay Pather and Catherine Boulle, speaks to the aesthetics of crises observed in performance or “live art” in contemporary South Africa. The subversive nature of the performances discussed in this book is related to lingering emotions of anger, resentment, and dispossession, but also to a way of articulating the unsayable—the desire to know, to say, and to be (Braidotti 2011, 126). The authors contributing to this book question an understanding of art as mere representations of identities and humanist notions of self, rather positioning figurations as “embedded and embodied, social positions” (Braidotti 2011, 5), constantly in flux and operating as a process of teasing out new meanings of citizenship, agency, and relationality. Acts of Transgression is the product of Pather’s and Boulle’s longstanding interest in and engagement with performance practices in South Africa, supported by the Institute for Creative Arts at the University of Cape Town, where they are based. The volume consists of 15 chapters, divided into four sections, each addressing a different aspect of the multidisciplinary field of performance or “live art”, as it is referred to in this book. The book contains engagements with a variety of artists’ work by a diverse collection of authors, critics, and artist-writers, who each contribute in a meaningful way to the debates offered in this book.

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违法行为：南非当代现场艺术

由 Jay Pather 和 Catherine Boulle 编辑的 Acts of Transgression 讲述了当代南非在表演或“现场艺术”中观察到的危机美学。本书讨论的表演的颠覆性与挥之不去的愤怒、怨恨和剥夺情绪有关，但也与表达不可言说的方式有关——渴望知道、说话和成为 (Braidotti 2011, 126) . 为本书做出贡献的作者质疑将艺术理解为仅仅是身份和人文主义自我概念的表现，而是将形象定位为“嵌入和体现的社会地位”（Braidotti 2011, 5），不断变化并作为一个过程梳理出公民身份、代理和关系的新含义。Acts of Transgression 是 Pather 和 Boulle 对南非表演实践的长期兴趣和参与的产物，得到了他们所在的开普敦大学创意艺术学院的支持。该卷由 15 章组成，分为四个部分，每个部分都针对本书中提到的多学科表演或“现场艺术”领域的不同方面。这本书包含了各种作者、评论家和艺术家作家与各种艺术家作品的互动，他们每个人都以有意义的方式为本书提供的辩论做出了贡献。分为四个部分，每个部分涉及多学科领域的不同方面的表演或“现场艺术”，正如本书中提到的那样。这本书包含了各种作者、评论家和艺术家作家与各种艺术家作品的互动，他们每个人都以有意义的方式为本书提供的辩论做出了贡献。分为四个部分，每个部分涉及多学科领域的不同方面的表演或“现场艺术”，正如本书中提到的那样。这本书包含了各种作者、评论家和艺术家作家与各种艺术家作品的互动，他们每个人都以有意义的方式为本书提供的辩论做出了贡献。