Abramovic Marina, Sur la voie, Paris, Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, 1990.
Auslander Philip, Liveness. Performance in a Mediatized Culture, New York, Routledge, 1999.
Banes Sally, Democracy’s Body. Judson Dance Theater 1962-1964, Durham, Londres, Duke University Press, 1995.
Banes Sally, Greenwich Village 1963. Avant-Garde Performance and the Effervescent Body, Durham, Londres, Duke University Press, 1993.
Banes, Sally, Subversive expectations : performance art and paratheatre in New York, 1976-85, Ann Arbor : The University of Michigan press,1998
Barthelmes Barbara, "Der Komponist als Ausführender und der Interpret als Komponist. Zur Ästhetik der Musikperformance", Improvisation-Performance-Szene, Mainz, Schott Verlag, ED 8763, 1997, p. 9-18.
Benamou Michel et Caramello Charles, Performance in Postmodern Culture, Milwaukee, University of Wisconsin, Center for Twentieth Studies, Wisconsin, Coda Press, 1977.
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Joseph Beuys, Qu’est-ce que l’art ?, entretien avec Volker Harlan, Paris, L’Arche, 1992 (trad. de Laurent Cassagnau).
Blocker Jane, What the Body Cost. Desire, History, and Performance, Londres, Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 2004.
Broadhurst Susan, Liminal Acts. A Critical Overview of Contemporary Performance and Theory, Londres, New York, Cassell, 1999.
Butt Gavin, After Criticism. New Responses to Art and Performance, Blackwell Publishing, New Interventions in Art and Technology, Malden, Oxford, 2005.
Carlson Marvin, Performance. An Introduction, New York, Londres, Routledge, 1996.
Carolee Schneemann. I. Early Work 1960/1970, Documentext-Max Hutchinson Gallery, 1982.
Carolee Schneemann. More Than Meat Joy. Performance Works and Selected Writings, Edited by Bruce R. McPherson, New York, 1997.
Carolee Schneemann. Up To and Including Her Limits, New York, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, 1997.
Collins Nicholas, "Ubiquitous Electronics. Technology and Live Performance 1966-1976", Improvisation-Performance-Szene, Mainz, Schott Verlag, ED 8763, 1997.
Dimitriadis Greg, Performing Identity/Performing Culture. Hip Hop as Text, Pedagogy, and Lived Practrice, New York, Peter Lang, Intersections in Communication and Culture, 2005.
Dixon Steve, Digital Performance. A History of New Media in Theater, Dance, Performance Art, and Installation, Cambridge, Massachussetts Institute of Technology, The MIT Press, 2007.
Dreher Thomas, Performance Art nach 1945. Aktionstheater und Intermedia, Munich Wilhem Fink Verlag, 2001.
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Jones Amelia, Body Art. Performing the Subject, Londres, Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 1998.
Kauffman Linda S., Bad Girls and Sick Boys. Fantasies in Contemporary Art and Culture, Berkeley, Los Angeles, Londres, University of California Press, 1998.
Kaye Nick, Site Specific Art, New York, Routledge, 2000.
Kelley Mike, Foul Perfection. Essays And Criticism, Edited by John C. Welchman, Massachussetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Londres, The MIT Press, 2003.
Kershaw Baz, The Radical in Performance : Between Brecht and Baudrillard, New York, Londres, Routledge, 1998.
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Ono Yoko, Grapefruit. A Book of Instructions And Drawings by Yoko Ono, (Introduction de John Lennon, with a new introduction by the autor), New York, Londres, Toronto, Sydney, Singapour, Simon & Schuster, 2000 (version originale : 1964).
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CATALOGUES, OUVRAGES COLLECTIFS
After criticism :new responses to art and performance / Gavin Butt Publication : Oxford : Blackwell, 2005
Art, lies and videotape : exposing performance / [edited by Adrian George], Londres, Ed. Tate, 2003
Hors limites : l’art et la vie, 1952-1994, exposition, Paris, Musée national d’art moderne-Pompidou, 9 novembre 1994-23 janvier 1995, Ed. centre pompidou, 1994
Life, once more : forms of reenactement in contemporary art, exhibition January 27 - March 27, 2005, Witte de With, Center for contemporary art, Rotterdam
Live : art and performance / edited by Adrian Heathfield, Ed. Tate publishing, 2004
L.A.-ex Performances, catalogue Munich, Hatje Cantz Verlag, Reihe Verlag, 2001.
Improvisation-Performance-Szene, Mainz, Schott Verlag, ED 1997.
Out of actions : between performance and the object, 1949-1979 : [exhibition, Los Angeles, Museum of contemporary art, 8 February-10 May 1998, Vienna, Austrian museum of applied arts, 17 June-6 September 1998, Barcelona, Museu d’art contemporani, 15 October 1998-6 January 1999, Tokyo, Museum of contemporary art, 11 February-11 April 1999]
Performance Artists Talking in the Eighties, edited by Linda Montano, Berkeley, University of California Press, 2000.
Performance und Performance Art, revue Kunstforum International, Band 96, Köln, August-Oktober 1988.
Performing the body : performing the text, by Amelia Jones and Andrew Stephenson, London, Routledge, 1999.
Le "performatif" : les arts de la performance en Suisse / textes rassemblés par Sibylle Omlin ; Sibylle Omlin, Françoise Ninghetto, Rayelle Niemann... Zurich, Ed. Pro Helvetia, 2004
The senses in performance, by Sally Banes and André Lepecki, New York Ed. Routledge, 2007
Baudelot, Alexandra, Jennifer Lacey & Nadia Lauro : dispositifs chorégraphiques, Dijon, Ed.les Presses du réel, 2007
DVDs
Destricted, Katapult Film Sales, Revolver Entertainment, UK, 2006 (dvd), films de Larry Clark, Gaspar Noé, Sam Taylor-Wood, Matthew Barney, Richard Prince, Marco Brambilla et Marina Abramovic (interdit - de 18 ans)
Vier Videokünstler : Barney, Hill, McCarthy, Neshat, Fünf Filme von Maria Tappeiner, Jörg und Ralf Raimo Jung, Reinhard Wulf. Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, AbsolutMedien Dokumente 933, 2 DVDs, 2007.