History and genealogy of performance art in Latvia

"This book offers the first comprehensive study of the emergence and development of performance art in Latvia from the 1960s to the late 1980s under Soviet occupation. The book examines artistic practices that remained marginal to both international historiography and local art historical discourse. Because performance often emerged without stable terminology, institutional frameworks, or critical discourse in Soviet Latvia, its histories remain dispersed across fragmented archives, photographic documentation, personal collections, interviews, and ephemeral traces"-- Provided by publisher.