Intermedial performance and politics in the public sphere / Katia Arfara, Aneta Mancewicz, Ralf Remshardt, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Arfara, Katia, editor.

Mancewicz, Aneta, editor.

Remshardt, Ralf, 1959- editor.

Series:

Avant-gardes in performance

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Performing arts--Political aspects.

Performing arts.

Physical Description:

xviii, 267 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2018]

Summary:

"This volume is a collection of scholarly articles and interviews with intermedial artists working with the concepts of public sphere at the intersection of aesthetics and politics. It explores the response of socially-engaged artistic practices to the current crisis in politics and media. It also critically examines urgent issues such as rampant nationalism and populism, expanding neoliberalism, the refugee crisis, growing inosculations of corporate and cyber culture, and the ongoing geopolitical changes in the Middle East. Can intermedial performances reflect the present artistic and political dilemmas in Europe and beyond? The collection provides theoretical frameworks that interrogate the role that spectators as citizens can play in our mediatized world while focusing on the functions of immersion, participation, and civic engagement in contemporary performance and society. The collection provides analyses by international scholars from Europe, Asia, and the USA, covering global performance created in the twenty-first century. It also introduces interviews with internationally acclaimed intermedial artists and companies such as BERLIN, Rimini Protokoll, Dries Verhoeven, Akira Takayama, and Kris Verdonck"--Back cover.

Contents:

Introduction: In and Out: Intermedial Practices in the New Public Sphere / Katia Arfara, Aneta Mancewicz, and Ralf Remshardt

Intermedial Theatre in a Mediatized Culture and Society / Chiel Kattenbelt

Intermedial Performance as a Public Sphere / Aneta Mancewicz

Mirrors of Public Space: An Interview with Dries Verhoeven / Liesbeth Groot Nibbelink

Democracy with a Toothbrush: Protest, Performance, and the Public Sphere / Christopher Balme

Refugee Theatre in the (Inter)medial Matrix: Die Schutzbefohlenen and the Limits of Theatre as Public Sphere / Ralf Remshardt

'Heterotopian Transformations': An Interview with Akira Takayama / Natsuko Odate

Troubled Feedback Loop: The Rise and Fall of Estonia by Theatre NO99 / Riina Oruaas

Between Art, Society, Representation, and Subjectivity: Wojtek Ziemilski's Prolog / Anna R. Burzyńska

'The Intimacy of Public Space': An Interview with Kris Verdonck / Kristof van Baarle

Empire Strikes Back: The 2014 Maidan Revolution in Ukraine, Postmodern Spectatorship, and the Battle of Perception in the Public Sphere / Olga Danylyuk

The Politics of the Digital Public Sphere: On Rabih Mroué's The Pixelated Revolution / Katia Arfara

'Almost Like a Teaching Play': Daniel Wetzel/Rimini Protokoll in a Conversation with Florian Malzacher / Florian Malzacher

Re-Materialising the Theatrical Public Sphere Through Intermediality in Grass Stage's World Factory / Zheyu Wei

Intermediating Immanence: On Ho Tzu Nyen's Ten Thousand Tigers / Mi You

'Reality is the Best Scenario': An Interview with BERLIN / Kurt Vanhoutte and Charlotte De Somviele.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

3319753428

9783319753423

OCLC:

1046621815