The Phenomenology of Blood in Performance Art is a major new publication that expands the philosophical contextualisation of blood, its presence and absence, across the practice of performance art from a phenomenological perspective.

Edited by T. J. Bacon (she/they) and Chelsea Coon (she/her) this book moves beyond an established cannon of artists to ensure an inclusive representation of practices from a wider range of practitioners. First hand interviews and conversations have been gathered from both canonical names as well as individuals who are prevalent in their communities and/or respective subcultures, but less represented within the frameworks of scholarly discourse. Each offers the opportunity to examine their experiences creating artworks and in turn contributes to the context of phenomenological examination within this publication through complementary scholarly texts from leading thinkers who frame phenomenological application to both visual art and transdisciplinary context.

Featuring artists through new exclusive interviews and contributions including Marina Abramovic, Jelili Atiku, Ron Athey, Franko B, Niya B, Marisa Carnesky, Cheslea Coon, Victor Martinez Diaz, Rufus Elliot, Ernst Fischer, Louis Fleischauer, Poppy Jackson, Mirabelle Jones, Andre Molodkin, Hermann Nitsch, ORLAN, Mike Parr, Greta Sharp, tjb, and Paola Paz Yee and reference to many more.

Alongside new essays by leading phenomenological and interdisciplinary art scholars and philosophers including T. J. Bacon, Chelsea Coon, Stuart Grant, Kelly Jordan, Lynn Lu, Roberta Mock, Amber Mussar and Raegan Truax. Together they represent a significant exploration of intricate and dynamic responses to the cultural fabric of contemporary lived experiences across space and time through the medium of blood in performance art.

This incredible analysis of this performance art will be of huge interest to students and practitioners of live art, performance art, visual art, fine art, phenomenology and performance philosophy.