From Bayreuth to Burkina Faso : Christoph Schlingensief's opera village Africa as postcolonial gesamtkunstwerk? / Sarah Hegenbart.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hegenbart, Sarah, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Multiculturalism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (295 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Leuven, Belgium : Leuven University Press, [2022]

Summary:

The postcolonial Gesamtkunstwerk : Disrupting the Eurocentric perspective on art history and addressing Germany's colonial history Opera Village Africa , a participatory art experiment by the late German multimedia artist Christoph Schlingensief, serves as a testing ground for a critical interrogation of Richard Wagner's notion of the Gesamtkunstwerk . Sarah Hegenbart traces the path from Wagner's introduction of the Gesamtkunstwerk in Bayreuth to Schlingensief's attempt to charge the idea of the total artwork with new meaning by transposing it to the West African country Burkina Faso. Schlingensief developed O pera Village in collaboration with the world-renowned architect Francis Kéré. This final project of Schlingensief is inspired by and illuminates the diverse themes that informed his artistic practice, including coming to terms with the German past, anti-Semitism, critical race theory, and questions of postcolonial (self-)criticism. From Bayreuth to Burkina Faso introduces the notion of the postcolonial Gesamtkunstwerk to disrupt the Eurocentric perspective on art history, exploring how the socio-political force of a postcolonial Gesamtkunstwerk could affect processes of transcultural identity construction. It reveals how Schlingensief translocated the Wagnerian concept to Burkina Faso to address German colonial history and engage with it from the perspective of multidirectional memory cultures. This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content).

Contents:

Cover

Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Opera of Ambiguities

Chapter One: Egomania

Germany Without Hope?

Chapter Two: From Bayreuth to Burkina Faso

Chapter Three: The Mission of a Contemporary Parsifal

Chapter Four: Revolving Opera and Psychic Interiors

Chapter Five: Readymade and Azione Scenica

Chapter Six: Opera Village as postcolonial Gesamtkunstwerk?

Conclusion: The Gesamtkunstwerk: Smashed or revived?

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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Other Format:

Print version: Hegenbart, Sarah From Bayreuth to Burkina Faso

ISBN:

9789461664938

9461664931

OCLC:

1351200518