Notes on Contributors.

Series Editor’s Preface.

Introduction: The Paradoxes of Criticism. (Gavin Butt).

Part I: Performing Art’s Histories.

1. Solo Solo Solo. (Rebecca Schneider).

2. Binding to Another’s Wound: Of Weddings and Witness. (Jane Blocker).

3. This Is I. (Niru Ratnam).

Part II: Distracted and Bored: The Critic Looks Elsewhere.

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

5. Utopia’s Seating Chart: Ray Johnson, Jill Johntson and Queer Intermedia as System. (José Esteban Muñoz).

6. Looking Away: Participations in Visual Culture. (Irit Rogoff).

Part III: Critical Response/Performative Process.

7. Itinerant Improvisations: from ‘My Favorite Things’ to an ‘agency of night’. (John Seth).

8. A transparent lecture. (Matthew Goulish).

9. The Experience of Art as a Living Through of Language. (Kate Love).

Bibliography.

Index