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Publications: Prof Dominic Johnson

Johnson D ( 2022 ) . ‘Kind of Goya-esque or Something’: Charles Ray’s Early Works . Art History vol. 45 , ( 2 ) 280 - 307 .
Johnson D ( 2021 ) . Delete the Idea Down: James Lee Byars and the Performance of Abbreviation . Art Journal
Johnson D ( 2021 ) . Delete the Idea Down: James Lee Byars and the Performance of Abbreviation . ART JOURNAL vol. 80 , ( 2 ) 31 - 54 .
Johnson D ( 2021 ) . Shimmering Images: Trans Cinema, Embodiment, and the Aesthetics of Change . ART JOURNAL vol. 80 , ( 4 ) 120 - 123 .
Johnson D ( 2020 ) . Rudimentary Things: Becoming an Object in the Performances of Skip Arnold . Art History vol. 43 , ( 3 ) 538 - 563 .
Johnson D ( 2019 ) . Dead Star Mileage: Jack Smith’s Fandom for Maria Montez . Fandom as Methodology A Sourcebook for Artists and Writers , Editors: Grant, C, Random Love, K , Goldsmiths Press ( London ),
Johnson D ( 2019 ) . How Does Performance Disrupt Institutional Spaces? . Thinking Through Theatre and Performance , Methuen Drama ( London ),
Johnson D ( 2019 ) . Unlimited Action The Performance of Extremity in the 1970s . Manchester University Press
Johnson D ( 2019 ) . Short Reviews . PAJ A Journal of Performance and Art vol. 41 , ( 1 ) 134 - 135 .
Johnson D ( 2018 ) . Impossible Things: The Life Art of Anne Bean in the 1970s . Anne Bean: Self Etc , Editors: La Frenais, R , Intellect (UK) ( Bristol ),
Johnson D ( 2018 ) . Chickens, Saints, and Corpses: Endurance Art in the United States . Art Journal vol. 77 , ( 2 ) 103 - 105 .
Delgado MM, Gale MB, Johnson D, Lease B ( 2017 ) . Editorial . Contemporary Theatre Review vol. 27 , ( 4 ) 442 - 444 .
Johnson D ( 2017 ) . File Under COUM: Art on Trial in Genesis P-Orridge’s Mail Action . London Art Worlds Mobile, Contingent, and Ephemeral Networks, 1960–1980 , Editors: Applin, J, Tobin, A, Spencer, C , Penn State Press ( University Park ),
Delgado MM, Gale MB, Johnson D ( 2017 ) . Editorial . Contemporary Theatre Review vol. 27 , ( 2 ) 153 - 154 .
JOHNSON DF ( 2017 ) . Naked Hitchhikers: The Unknown Photography of William A. Rhoads . Porn Studies vol. 4 , ( 1 ) 67 - 87 .
Delgado MM, Gale MB, Johnson D ( 2016 ) . Editorial . Contemporary Theatre Review vol. 26 , ( 4 ) 414 - 415 .
Johnson D ( 2016 ) . “Personality Crisis? Honey, I was Born with One”: Lydia Lunch Interviewed . Post-Punk: Then and Now , Editors: Butt, G, Fisher, M, Eshun, K , Repeater ( London ),
Delgado MM, Gale MB, Hughes J, Johnson D ( 2016 ) . Editorial . Contemporary Theatre Review vol. 26 , ( 2 ) 132 - 133 .
Heddon D, Johnson D ( 2016 ) . It's All Allowed The Performances of Adrian Howells . Editors: Heddon, D, Johnson, D , Intellect (UK)
Johnson D ( 2015 ) . The Art of Living An Oral History of Performance Art . Palgrave Macmillan
Delgado MM, Gale MB, Johnson D ( 2015 ) . Editorial . Contemporary Theatre Review vol. 25 , ( 1 ) 9 - 10 .
JOHNSON DF ( 2015 ) . ‘Transition Pieces: The Photography of Del LaGrace Volcano’ . Otherwise: Imagining Queer Feminist Art Histories , Editors: Jones, A, Silver, E , Manchester University Press ( Manchester and New York ),
Delgado MM, Monks A, Johnson D ( 2014 ) . Editorial . Contemporary Theatre Review vol. 24 , ( 2 ) 153 - 155 .
Johnson D ( 2014 ) . TRANS(per)FORMING Nina Arsenault: An Unreasonable Body of Work . Contemporary Theatre Review vol. 24 , ( 2 ) 275 - 276 .
Dominic Johnson ( 2014 ) . Modern Death: Jack Smith, Fred Herko, and Paul Thek . Criticism vol. 56 , ( 2 )
( 2013 ) . Backpages 23.3 . Contemporary Theatre Review vol. 23 , ( 3 ) 450 - 463 .
Delgado MM, Johnson D, Monks A ( 2013 ) . Editorial . Contemporary Theatre Review vol. 23 , ( 3 ) 277 - 277 .
JOHNSON D ( 2013 ) . Pleading in the Blood: The Art and Performances of Ron Athey . Editors: Johnson, DF , Intellect and Live Art Development Agency ( Bristol, Chicago and London ),
JOHNSON DF ( 2013 ) . Crocodile Tears: A Counter-Archive of Glam Aesthetics . Glam: The Performance of Style , Editors: PIH, D , Tate Publishing ( London ),
Delgado MM, Johnson D, Monks A, Shalson L ( 2013 ) . Editorial . Contemporary Theatre Review vol. 23 , ( 1 ) 1 - 2 .
Johnson D ( 2013 ) . Scandal . Contemporary Theatre Review vol. 23 , ( 1 ) 64 - 68 .
JOHNSON DF ( 2013 ) . Carrying Her Liver in a Shopping Cart: An Interview with Bruce Benderson . Social Text ( 113 )
Johnson D ( 2013 ) . Critical Live Art: Contemporary Histories of Performance in the UK . Routledge ( Abingdon ),
JOHNSON DF ( 2012 ) . Intimacy and Risk in Live Art . Histories and Practices of Live Art , Editors: Heddon, D, Klein, J , Palgrave Macmillan ( Basingstoke and New York ),
Johnson D ( 2012 ) . The Kindness of Strangers: An Interview with Adrian Howells . Performing Ethos International Journal of Ethics in Theatre and Performance vol. 3 , ( 2 ) 173 - 190 .
JOHNSON DF ( 2012 ) . Ecstatic Intervals: Performance in a Continuum of Intimacy . Intimacy Across Visceral and Digital Performance , Editors: Chatzichristodoulou, M, Zerihan, R , Palgrave Macmillan ( Houndmills ),
Delgado MM, Monks A, Johnson D ( 2012 ) . Editorial . Contemporary Theatre Review vol. 22 , ( 3 ) 305 - 306 .
JOHNSON DF ( 2012 ) . 'Introduction: The What, When and Where of Live Art' . Contemporary Theatre Review vol. 22 , ( 1 ) 4 - 16 .
JOHNSON DF ( 2012 ) . Glorious Catastrophe: Jack Smith, Performance and Visual Culture . Manchester University Press ( Manchester and New York ),
JOHNSON DF ( 2012 ) . Positive Surrender: An Interview with BREYER P-ORRIDGE . Contemporary Theatre Review vol. 22 , ( 1 ) 134 - 145 .
JOHNSON DF ( 2012 ) . Theatre & the Visual . Palgrave Macmillan ( Basingstoke and New York ),
Johnson D ( 2011 ) . Male Trouble: Masculinity and the Performance of Crisis . THEATRE RES INT vol. 36 , ( 2 ) 185 - 186 .
Johnson D ( 2010 ) . Visuality in the Theatre: The Locus of Looking . THEATRE RES INT vol. 35 , ( 3 ) 305 - 306 .
Johnson D ( 2010 ) . E Hate Death: Performance After Genesis P-Orridge . Contemporary Theatre Review vol. 20 , ( 2 ) 246 - 249 .
JOHNSON DF ( 2010 ) . Psychic Weight: The Pains and Pleasures of Performance . ORLAN: A Hybrid Body of Artworks , Editors: DONGER, S, ORLAN, SHEPHERD, S , Routledge ( London & New York ),
Johnson DF ( 2010 ) . Ron Athey’s Visions of Excess: Performance After Georges Bataille . Papers of Surrealism ( 8 )
Johnson D ( 2010 ) . The Skin of the Theatre: An Interview with Julia Bardsley . CONTEMP THEATRE REV vol. 20 , ( 3 ) 340 - + .
JOHNSON D ( 2009 ) . False Messiah: Oreet Ashery's Saint/s of Whitstable . Dancing with Men: Interactive performances, interventions and other artworks , Editors: Ashery, O , Live Art Development Agency ( London ),
Johnson D ( 2009 ) . Jack Smith's Rehearsals for the Destruction of Atlantis: 'Exotic' Ritual and Apocalyptic Tone . CONTEMP THEATRE REV vol. 19 , ( 2 ) 164 - + .
Johnson D ( 2008 ) . Perverse Martyrologies: An Interview with Ron Athey . CONTEMP THEATRE REV vol. 18 , ( 4 ) 503 - 513 .
Johnson D ( 2008 ) . Theatre, Intimacy & Engagement: The Last Human Venue . CONTEMP THEATRE REV vol. 18 , ( 4 ) 514 - 515 .
JOHNSON D ( 2007 ) . The Wound Kept Open: Jack Smith, Queer Performance and Cultural Failure . Women and Performance vol. 16 , ( 4 ) Article 1 , 3 - 18 .
JOHNSON D ( 2007 ) . It Only Hurts Because It’s True: Recent Live Art and Performance in the UK . Western European Stages vol. 19 , ( 1 ) 9 - 14 .
JOHNSON D ( 2007 ) . Manuel Vason: Encounters . Editors: JOHNSON, D , Arnolfini Gallery Ltd ( Bristol ),
JOHNSON D ( 2007 ) . The Wound Kept Open: Jack Smith, Queer Performance and Cultural Failure . vol. 17 , is. 1 , pp. 3 - 18 . Routledge ( United States ), Abstract: java.sql.Clob org.hibernate.engine.jdbc.WrappedClob java.io.Serializable ,
JOHNSON D ( 2006 ) . Franko B: Blinded by Love . Editors: Johnson, DF , Damiani & Galleria Pack ( Bologna ),
JOHNSON DF, BREYER P-ORRIDGE GENESIS, BREYER P-ORRIDGE LADYJAYE ( 2005 ) . Why We Are Breaking Sex: Excerpts from a Dialogue with Dominic Johnson . Everything You Know About Sex Is Wrong: Extremes of Human Sexuality , Disinformation Press ( New York ),