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Modern and Contemporary Art, Theory & Criticism, and Trauma Studies

Kristine Stiles received her Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley. Her main field of research is contemporary art with a focus on performance art and other interdisciplinary experimental art practices. Her research is especially concerned with global representations of violence, trauma, and destruction. She is the recipient of Duke University's Richard K. Lublin Distinguished Award for Teaching (1994), the Fulbright (1995), and the Solomon R. Guggenheim (2000), among others fellowships. She received an honorary Doctorate of Arts from Darlington College of Arts and The University of Plymouth, England in 2005.

Education:

• PhD University of California, Berkeley 1987

Representative Publications   (More Publications)

1. K. Stiles. “Cloud with its Shadow: Marina Abramovic” in Marina Abramovic. Phaidon, (2008).
2. K. Stiles, ed.,. States of Mind: Dan & Lia Perjovschi. Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University; distributed by Duke University Press, Durham, North Carolina, (2007).
3. K. Stiles and Peter Selz, eds.,. Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art: A Sourcebook of Artists’ Writings. University of California Press, (1996). (forthcoming in an expanded new edition edited by Kristine Stiles in 2010)
4. "Shaved Heads and Marked Bodies: Representations From Cultures of Trauma" (1993), appeared without its 1996 "Afterword" in Bruce Lawrence and Aisha Karim, eds., On Violence: An Anthology (Durham, N.C., Duke University Press); 522-538."   (2007). (This essay was originally published in Strategie II: Peuples Mediterraneens [Paris]64/65 (1993): 95-117; it was excerpted in Dan Perjovschi Post R, for the exhibition “Media Culpa,” Bucharest, Romania, 1995; it was reprinted with a new Afterword in Jean O'Barr, Nancy Hewitt, Nancy Rosebaugh, eds., Talking Gender: Public Images, Personal Journeys, and Political Critiques (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996): 36-64; excerpted in Dan Perjovschi: Anthroprogramming (New York: Franklin Furnace, 1996); excerpted in Lusitania [New York] 6 (1994): 23-39; excerpted in German in kursiv [Linz, Austria] 2-3. (1995): 19-25; excerpted in numerous Romanian journals 1994-present.) [html]
5. "Burden of Light." Chris Burden  (2007).
6. "Teaching a Dead Hand to Draw, Kim Jones, War and Art." Kim Jones: A Retrospective  (2007).
7. "Uncorrupted Joy: International Art Actions." Out of Actions: Between Performance and the Object 1949-1979 Paul Schimmel Edition (1998): 226-238.
8. "Between Water and Stone; Fluxus Performance, A Metaphysics of Acts." In the Spirit of Fluxus. Edited by Elizabeth Armstrong and Joan Rothfuss.  (1993): 62-99. (excerpted in Tracy Warr, ed., The Artists'Body (London: Phaidon Press, 2000): 211-14)
9. "Performance." Critical Terms for Art History. Edited by Robert Nelson and Richard Shiff. 2nd Edition (2003): 75-97.
10. "I/Eye/Oculus: Performance, Installation and Video." Art of the Twentieth Century. Edited by Charles Harrison and Paul W. Wood.  (2004): 183-229.
11. "The Story of the Destruction in Art Symposium and the "DIAS Affect"." Gustav Metzger: Geschichte Geschichte  (2005).
12. "Remembrance, Resistance, Reconstruction, the Social Value of Lia & Dan Perjovschis's Art."   (2005).
13. "Metzger's Fierce, Poignant, and Prescient Manifestos." Rett Kopi: A Norwegian Journal of Art and Aesthetics  (2006).