The Citizen Artist: 20 Years of Art in the Public Arena
An Anthology from High Performance Magazine 1978-1998

Edited by Linda Frye Burnham & Steven Durland

Table of Contents

• Title pages
• Publisher's statement
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction by Steven Durland
• Of the People, By the People and For the People: The Field of Community Performance by Richard Owen Geer

Part I: THE ART/LIFE EXPERIMENT

• Introduction: The Art/Life Experiment by Linda Frye Burnham
• She Who Would Fly: An Interview with Suzanne Lacy by Richard Newton
• Acting Like Women: Performance Art of the Woman's Building by Cheri Gaulke
• Between the Diaspora and the Crinoline: An Interview with Bonnie Sherk by Linda Frye Burnham
• The Year of the Rope: An Interview with Linda Montano & Tehching Hsieh by Alex & Allyson Grey
• D.B.D.—the Mind/Body Spa: An Interview with Rachel Rosenthal by Linda Frye Burnham
• Art and Ceremony by Barbara T. Smith
• Ritual Keeper: An Interview with Anna Halprin by Janice Steinberg
• Touch Sanitation: Mierle Laderman Ukeles by Robert C. Morgan
• Two Lines of Sight and an Unexpected Connection: The Art of Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison by Arlene Raven
• The Streets: Where Do They Reach? by Guillermo Gómez Peña

Part II: THE ARTIST AS ACTIVIST

• Introduction: The Artist as Activist by Linda Frye Burnham
• Ideology, Confrontation and Political Self-Awareness by Adrian Piper
• The Artist as Citizen: Guillermo Gómez Peña, Judith Baca, Felipe Ehrenberg, David Avalos by Emily Hicks
• El Teatro Campesino: An Interview with Luis Valdez by Carl Heyward
• It's All I Can Think About: An Interview with Nancy Buchanan by Linda Frye Burnham and Steven Durland
• Taking Back the Power: An Interview with Robbie Conal by Claire Peeps
• Art in the AIDies: An Act of Faith by Max Navarre
• Silence Still = Death by Lucy Lippard
• On the Side of the Deepest Soul on Earth: An Interview with Ja Kyung Rhee and Hye Sook of Theatre 1981 by Steven Durland
• No Time for the Blues (Aesthetic) by Pearl Cleage
• Call Me in '93: An Interview with James Luna by Steven Durland
• Shooting the Klan: An Interview with Andres Serrano by Coco Fusco
• The Shock of the Real: An Interview with Karen Finley by Margot Mifflin

Part III: THE ARTIST AS CITIZEN

• Introduction: The Artist as Citizen by Linda Frye Burnham
• Town Artist: An Interview with David Harding by Moira Roth
• LAPD, Skid Row and the Real Deal: A Conversation by John Malpede and Elia Arce
• Appalachia's Roadside Theater: Celebration of a Community's Culture by Donna Porterfield
• The Cutting Edge Is Enormous: Liz Lerman and Richard Owen Geer by Linda Frye Burnham
• Between Me and the Giant: Imagination Workshop by William Cleveland
• Living with the Doors Open: An Interview with Blondell Cummings by Veta Goler
• We Are All Connected: Elders Share the Arts by Susan Perlstein
• Miles from Nowhere: Teaching Dance in Prison by Leslie Neal
• Maintaining Humanity: An Interview with Grady Hillman about Arts-in-Corrections by Steven Durland
• The Selma Project: Understanding, the Struggle for Community by Bob Leonard
• Drawing the Line At Place: The Environmental Justice Project by Mat Schwarzman
• We All Are Theater: An Interview with Augusto Boal by Douglas L. Paterson and Mark Weinberg
• Resolving Conflicts: A Poet's Residency in Tulsa by Alice Lovelace
• Professional Jaywalker:Richard Posner on Crossing from the Studio to Public Art by Douglas Eby
• Toward a New Folk Dance: Caregivers and Other Partners by Stuart Pimsler
• CWT#3: Making City Water Tunnel #3 by Marty Pottenger
• The Citizen Artist by Aida Mancillas