Table of Contents

Introduction; Playing the media keyboard. The political potential of performativity in Christoph Schlingensiefs electioneering circus; The performative acts in Medea and Dogville and the sense of 'realism' in new media; Performativity and documentary. Sami Saifs and Phie Ambos Family and performativity; Performing the everyday. Two Danish photo books from the 1970s; Inventing reality. On truth and lies in the work of Hayley Newman; Making real. Strategies of performing performativity in Between image and stage. The Theatricality and performativity of installation art; A combination and not a contradiction. Gertrude Steins performative aesthetics; Performativity and role-playing.

About the Author

Rune Gade is Assistant Professor of Art History in the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. He is the co-editor of Symbolic Imprints: Essays on Photography and Visual Culture (Aarhus University Press, 1999). Anne Jerslev is Associate Professor of film and media studies at the Department of Media, Cognition and Communication, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. She is among other things editor of Realism and 'Reality' in Film and Media (Museum Tusculanum Press 2002).