The Ends of the 60s: Performance, Media and Contemporary Culture
 selected essays from Performance Paradigm 
 edited by Edward Scheer and Peter Eckersall
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The 1960s era was significant not least for the emergence of new aesthetics connected to a rapid evolution of political sensibilities. In Japan, as in Europe and America, artists were rethinking materials and forms often in terms of bodies juxtaposed with mediated spaces and objects. Art works began rejecting academic and formal qualities of art and instead related to the everyday experience of the world, foregrounding experiences of time and immediate sensory perception in a language which was conceptual and dynamic. These essays examine this emerging performative discourse which challenged ideas of representation and politics in art as performance began re-connecting with the social sphere.