Timelines: Writings and Conversations

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In Timelines: Writings and Conversations, Bonnie Marranca turns to far-ranging subjects that include the catastrophic imagination, landscape and writing, performance drawing, cultural history, as well as issues of emotion, beauty, and the spiritual in art. Her perspectives on performance, visual arts, media, and drama in the work of Joan Jonas, Caryl Churchill, Raimund Hoghe, Dick Hig gins, and Meredith Monk highlight the artist in the world and ar tistic process. Includes personal reflections on the loss of influential artists Carolee Schneemann, Sam Shepard, and Maria Irene Fornes.

Bonnie Marranca is the author of the essay volumes Performance Histories, Ecologies of Theatre, and Theatrewritings. She has edited numerous anthologies of plays and interviews that include Conversations with Meredith Monk, New Europe: plays from the continent, and Plays for the End of the Century. She is founding publisher and editor of PAJ Publications and PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art. (1976- )

This volume gathers writing on artists who changed cultural discourse, from performance artist and musician Laurie Anderson to contemporary avant-garde playwright Robert Wilson. We are indebted to Bonnie Marranca for her lifetime of astute observation and critical thought. * Martha Wilson * Over the years I have been drawn to Bonnie Marranca's writings and to her sensibilities, which are always exquisitely informed, personally engaged, theoretically penetrating, and poetically illuminating. Her new book of reflections and conversations is a welcome arrival at this moment of great social and political change. The breadth of her interests originates in the cultural life of New York City and then spreads out into the world. She tosses a wide net across the cultural waters, giving us access to her encounters with some of the most compelling artists of the past several decades. * Anne Bogart *