The Phenomenology of Bloody Performance Art

This book 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.

T J Bacon (she/they) is a is a trans-femme pansexual person with hidden disabilities. Her practice as an artist-philosopher foregrounds transgender studies and phenomenology, alongside queer theory, crip theory, disaster studies, and futures to consider visual art, performance art, activism and curation. She has exhibited internationally for over 20 years with a practice rooted in the elemental and esoteric. She is also the founder and artistic director of Tempting Failure which produces and supports international visual art, performance art and sonic art. She is currently Resident Researcher at Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London and a PhD Advisor with the Trans Art Institute. She is also the lead on the Queer Acts of Hope line of enquiry at the Guildhall De-Centre for Socially Engaged Practice & Research. She lives and works in London.

Chelsea Coon (she/her) is an artist and writer whose work focuses on the shifting interconnections of the body, time, and space. She reconsiders limits of the body and forms through performance, photography, video, painting, sculpture, and installation. She has performed and exhibited extensively across North America, Europe, Asia, Southeast Asia, Africa, South America, Australia, and the Middle East. Recent solo exhibitions include Heavy Metal atMeno Parkas Gallery, Lithuania; The probability of all possible states of the system at Arka Gallery, Lithuania; and deathless atGalleri Kronborg, Norway. Chelsea Coon’s writings on contemporary art, performance, and philosophy are included in experimental and academic publications, magazines, and journals. She lives and works in Los Angeles.