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The Performance Show

The 2024 Venice Biennale

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 January 2025

Peggy Phelan
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Abstract

Widely regarded as the most prestigious art exhibition in the world, the Venice Biennale combines art history, politics, and cultural power in a dizzying spectacle. The 2024 exhibition, “Foreigners Everywhere,” situates performance as a key medium in contemporary art and art history.

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Critical Acts
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TDR , Volume 69 , Issue 1 , March 2025 , pp. 153 - 174
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© The Author(s), 2025. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of New York University Tisch School of the Arts

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