Performance and the politics of space : theatre and topology / edited by Erika Fischer-Lichte and Benjamin Wihstutz.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fischer-Lichte, Erika.

Wihstutz, Benjamin, 1978-

Series:

Routledge advances in theatre and performance studies.

Routledge advances in theatre and performance studies ; 24

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Theater--Philosophy.

Theater.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (319 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"From its very beginnings, theatre has been both an art and a public space, shared by actors and spectators. As a result, its entity and history is intimately tied to politics: a politics of inclusion and exclusion, of distributions and placements, of spatial appropriation and utopian concepts. This collection examines what is at stake when a theatrical space is created and when a performance takes place; it asks under what circumstances the topology of theatre becomes political. The book approaches this issue from various angles, taking theatre as a cultural paradigm for political dimensions of space in its respective historical context. Visiting the political dimensions of theatrical space in both theatre history and contemporary performance, the volume responds to the so-called spatial turn in cultural and historical studies, and questions a politics of aesthetics that is discussed in continental philosophy. The book visits different levels and linkages between aesthetic theory and geography, art and sociology, architecture and political theory, and geometry and history, shedding new light on theatre, politics, and space, thereby transforming this historically intertwined triad into a transdisciplinary theme"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover; Performance and the Politics of Space; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART I Placements and Boundaries; 1 The Theatre ici; 2 Monarchs on Trial at the Early Modern Court; 3 What Time is This Place? Continuity, Conflict, and the Right to the City-Lessons from Haymarket Square; 4 Performing Like a City: London's South Bank and the Cultural Politics of Urban Governance; 5 What is Sydney about Sydney Theatre? Performance Space and the Creation of a "Matrix of Sensibility"

6 Thresholds of Tolerance: Censorship, Artistic Freedom, and the Theatrical Public Sphere7 "Set in Poland, That is to Say Nowhere": Alfred Jarry and the Politics of Topological Space; PART II Utopia and Heterotopia; 8 Equality and Theatre Architecture: Voltaire's Private Theatre; 9 Rousseau's Heterotopology of the Theatre; 10 Heterotopias of the Public Sphere: Theatre and Festival around 1800; 11 Other Space or Space of Others? Reflections on Contemporary Political Theatre; 12 Opéra Pagaï's Entreprise de Détournement: Collages of Geographic, Imaginary, and Discursive Spaces

PART III Strategies of Spatial Appropriation13 Policies of Spatial Appropriation; 14 "Moment to Moment-Space": The Architecture Performances of Gordon Matta-Clark; 15 Uncanny Connections: William Forsythe's Choreographic Installations; 16 Change through Rapprochement: Spatial Practices in Contemporary Performances; 17 Life Politics/Life Aesthetics: Environmental Performance in red, black & GREEN: a blues; Contributors; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-136-21026-1

0-203-09491-3

1-283-86134-8

1-136-21027-X

9780203094914

OCLC:

820787653