Performance on the Edge: Transformations of Culture - Softcover

Birringer, Johannes

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0826457797 ISBN 13: 9780826457790

Verlag: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd., 2002

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" A book which finally displaces the most compelling issues about identity and culture in the contemporary world from their academic milieu into unusual and often breathtaking artistic enactment. Placing the reader evocatively inside the productions of culturally and geographically diverse performances, Performance on the Edge uniquely restores life, love and creativity to culture theory." George Marcus, Professor of Anthropology, Rice University

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This title crosses geographical and conceptual boundaries to map out the new territory of contemporary theatre, dance, media arts and activism. Working across social, cultural and political fault lines, it explores performance as process and contact, as commitment to political activism, reconstruction of community, and as the highly charged embodiment of erotic fantasies. It dresses the politics of community-oriented and reconstructive artmaking in an era marked by the AIDS crisis, cultural and racial polarization, warfare, separatism and xenophobia. Provocatively illustrated with work from North and Central America and Eastern and Western Europe, the book challenges our assumptions about the relations between media and activism, technological imperatives and social processes, and bodily identities and virtual communities.

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• Verlag: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0826457797
• ISBN 13: 9780826457790
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 385