Responding to Site

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Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Responding to site / Jennie Klein -- Performance photographs 1987-1999 -- Section one: Duration and action. On time at the museum / Lucian O'Connor -- Salt, stones, and stars / Jeffery Byrd -- With the others / Sandrine Schaefer -- The lightness and darkness of becoming Marilyn / Paul Couillard -- Performance photographs 2003-2009 -- Section two: Site and history. "Lux Balcanica est umbra Orientis" Marilyn Arsem's Balkan performances / Kristine Stiles -- Impossible totalities: Political performance as palimpsest / El Putnam -- Dropping the frame: Orpheus to red in woods / David P. Miller -- Performance as/of shamanism and mediumship: Writing Ada / John Dennis Anderson -- Performance photographs 2012-2013 -- Section three: Performance and pedagogy. Some thoughts on teaching performance art, in five parts / Marilyn Arsem -- Dialogues with absence: Reflections on time and if to drift / Sandra Johnston -- Documenting Arsem / Michael Woolley -- "Reminding me always that nothing remains"--Marilyn Arsem's performance and pedagogy / Kathy O'Dell -- Performance photographs 2013-2015 -- Afterword: Durational forms and pedagogic encounters / Natalie Loveless -- Performance photographs 2015-2019 -- Appendix: Arsem's performances 1967-2019 -- Author biographies.