Situated knowing : epistemic perspectives on performance / edited by Ewa Bal and Mateusz Chaberski.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bal, Ewa, 1973- editor.

Chaberski, Mateusz, editor.

Series:

Routledge advances in theatre and performance studies.

Routledge advances in theatre and performance studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Performance art.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (213 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.

Summary:

Situated Knowing aims to critically examine performance studies' ideological and socio-political underpinnings while also challenging the Anglo-centrism of the discipline. This book reworks the concept of situated knowledges put forward over thirty years ago by American biologist and philosopher Donna Haraway in order to challenge the Enlightenment paradigm of objectivity in sciences by emphasising the role of the embodied and partial socio-cultural perspective of the scholar in the production of knowledge. Through carefully selected case studies of contemporary natural, cultural and technological performances, contributors to this volume show that the proposed approach requires new genealogies of traditional concepts, emerges from encounters with contemporary performative arts or contact zones and may potentially go beyond the human in order to include non-human ways of being in the world. It will be of great interest to students and scholars of performance studies, cultural studies, media studies and theatre studies.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Series Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

List of figures

List of contributors

Acknowledgements

Previously published material

Introduction: Situated knowing: From performance art to the laboratory of knowledge-making

References

Part 1 Knowing and alternative genealogies

Chapter 1 Slough media

The scandal of the obsolete

Bone in hand

Intrainanimacy

Hand in rock in hand

Notes

Chapter 2 The performing arts as 'cognitive hybrids': The power of the performatic Spiel-Raum

Walter Benjamin: mimesis and play

Eric A. Havelock: An analysis of Plato's rejection of mimesis

Merlin Donald: 'Mimetic culture'

Conclusions: Performing arts as 'cognitive hybrids'

Part 2 Knowing with performative arts

Chapter 3 Dead capital

I

II

Chapter 4 Beyond presence: Performing the limits of knowing

Chapter 5 Performative approaches to the cultural policy field

Part 3 Knowing in contact zones

Chapter 6 Decolonising documentary: Wojtek Doroszuk's Sape and Prince

The documentary turn

The documentary in the age of decolonisation

Performative documentary

The documentary as a site of translation

Note

Chapter 7 Beyond ethnicity? New architectures of access to local cultures in Dorota Nieznalska's Memory and Violence (2019)

Part 4 Knowing beyond the human

Chapter 8 The shadow of a pine tree: Authorship, agency and performing beyond the human

What is an author?

Shared authorship

What about performing?

Appendix

Chapter 9 What performativity scholars can learn from mushrooms: Situated knowing in polyphonic assemblages.

Performativity beyond the human

The matsutake as a polyphonic assemblage

Mushrooms and collaborative survival

Mushrooms and identities beyond the individual

Mushrooms and (non-)progressive development

Conclusion

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-000-08214-8

0-367-80958-3

1-000-08208-3

9780367809584

OCLC:

1178638795