Deleuze and performance / edited by Laura Cull.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cull, Laura.

Series:

Deleuze connections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Deleuze, Gilles, 1925-1995.

Deleuze, Gilles.

Performing arts--Philosophy.

Performing arts.

Physical Description:

vi, 282 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2009]

Summary:

Was performance important to Deleuze? Is Deleuze important to performance; to its practical, as well as theoretical, research? What are the implications of Deleuze's philosophy of difference, process and becoming, for Performance Studies, a field in which many continue to privilege the notion of performance as representation, as anchored by its imitation of an identity: 'the world', 'the play,''the self'?

Deleuze and Performance is a collection of new essays dedicated to Deleuze's writing on theatre and to the productivity of his philosophy for (re)thinking performance. This book provides rigorous analyses of Deleuze's writings on theatre practitioners such as Artaud, Beckett and Carmelo Bene, as well as offering innovative readings of historical and contemporary performance including performance art, dance, new media performance, theatre and opera, which use Deleuze's concepts in exciting new ways. Can philosophy follow Deleuze in overcoming the antitheatrical tradition embedded in its history, perhaps even reconsidering what it means to think in the light of the embodied insights of performance's practitioners? Experts from the fields of Performance Studies and Deleuze Studies come together in this volume and strive to examine these and other issues in a manner that will be challenging, yet accessible to students and established scholars alike.

Contents:

1 Performing in the Chaosmos: Farts, Follicles, Mathematics and Delirium in Deleuze / Herbert Blau 22

Act I Deleuze on Theatre: Artaud, Beckett and Carmelo Bene

2 I Artaud BwO: The Uses of Artaud's To have done with the judgement of god / Edward Scheer 37

3 Expression and Affect in Kleist, Beckett and Deleuze / Anthony Uhlmann 54

4 A Theatre of Substractive Extinction: Bene Without Deleuze / Lorenzo Chiesa 71

Interval

5 Performing, Strolling, Thinking: From Minor Literature to Theatre of the Future / Daniel Watt 91

Off the Beaten Path or, Notes Towards a Heideggerian Deterritorialisation: A Response to Daniel Watt / Julian Wolfreys 102

Act II Confronting Deleuze and Live Performance

6 Becoming a Citizen of the World: Deleuze Between Allan Kaprow and Adrian Piper / Stephen Zepke 109

7 sub specie durationis / Matthew Goulish, Laura Cull 126

8 Thinking Through Theatre / Maaike Bleeker 147

9 Becoming-Dinosaur: Collective Process and Movement Aesthetics / Anna Hickey-Moody 161

10 ... of butterflies, bodies and biograms ... Affective Spaces in Performativities in the Performance of Madama Butterfly / Barbara Kennedy 183

Act III A Digital Deleuze: Performance and New Media

11 Like a Prosthesis: Critical Performance à Digital Deleuze / Timothy Murray 203

12 Performance as the Distribution of Life: From Aeschylus to Chekhov to VJing via Deleuze and Guattari / Andrew Murphie 221

13 The 'Minor' Arithmetic of Rhythm: Imagining Digital Technologies for Dance / Stamatia Portanova 240.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0748635041

9780748635047

9780748635030

0748635033

OCLC:

401161508