"At last here is a book, Art Beyond the Edge , that speaks from the heart of conflict, the entrails of agony, injustice, and suffering, and yet affirms art as joy and creativity. Both global and regional, multimodal and interdisciplinary, this timely endeavor dares to give hope a name and art its salience on the brink of precarity. Thanks to these authors, art speaks and speaks for."--Rajagopalan Radhakrishnan, author of History, the Human, and the World Between "Mark LeVine and Bryan Reynolds go global creating 'transversal' performances--art that is dangerous, experimental, political, engaged, practical, theoretical, and collective. Agree or disagree, I was taken by their fierce book embodying 'emurgent' art, incandescent performances amid a world on fire, art that becomes 'a map to the future.'"--Richard Schechner, author of Between Theater and Anthropology "LeVine and Reynolds make accessible rare and important case studies in theater, music, and performance from sites of tension, violence, and war. New vocabularies in Western aesthetics for art 'beyond' the edge engage with performative, non-generic artwork from global communities obscured, silenced, or erased by neo/post-liberal structures. This book generates discussion, conversation, argument, and polemic and addresses a central issue in our diverse world, where peoples around the world are seeking recognition and attempting to get it on their own terms.

"--Lynette Hunter, author of Politics of Practice: A Rhetoric of Performativity "This analytical record offers an incisive and unprecedented conceptual language for grasping how art becomes a crucial modality for creating new political subjects. Rarely have there been intellectual practices that match this project's courage and invention in the long struggles for emancipation."--AbdouMaliq Simone, author of The Surrounds: Urban Life Within and Beyond Capture.