Conceptual Performance explores how the radical visual art that challenged material aesthetics in the 1960s and 1970s tested and extended the limits, character and concept of performance.

Nick Kaye is Professor of Performance Studies, University of Exeter, United Kingdom. His books include Site-Specific Art (2000), Multi-Media (2007), Performing Presence (with Gabriella Giannachi, 2011), Dennis Oppenheim: Body to Performance (with Amy van Winkle Oppenheim, 2016), and he is co-editor of Artists in the Archive (2018).

1. Introduction 2. Languages 3. Documents 4. Things 5. Infiltrations 6. Theatricalities 7. Conclusion