Acts Of Transgression

Author : Jay Pather,Catherine Boulle
Publisher : Wits University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2019-02-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781776142798

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Acts of Transgression by Jay Pather,Catherine Boulle Pdf

Fifteen writers explore the experimental, interdisciplinary and radically transgressive field of contemporary live art in South Africa, focusing on a wide range of perspectives, personalities and theoretical concerns. Contemporary South African society is chronologically ‘post’ apartheid, but it continues to grapple with material redress, land redistribution and systemic racism. Acts of Transgression represents the complexity of this moment in the rich potential of a performative art form that transcends disciplinary boundaries and aesthetic conventions. The contributors, who are all significantly involved in the discipline of performance art, probe its intersection with crisis and socio-political turbulence, shifting notions of identity and belonging, embodied trauma and loss. Narratives of the past and visions for the future are interrogated through memory and the archive, thus destabilising entrenched colonial systems. Collectively analysing the work of more than 25 contemporary South African artists, including Athi-Patra Ruga, Mohau Modisakeng, Steven Cohen, Dean Hutton, Mikhael Subotzsky, Tracey Rose and Donna Kukama, among others, the analysis is accompanied by a visual record of more than 50 photographs. For those working in the fields of theatre, performance studies and art, this is a must-have collection of critical essays on a burgeoning and exciting field of contemporary South African research.

Author : Catherine Boulle
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019-02-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781776142811

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Acts of Transgression by Catherine Boulle Pdf

Fifteen writers explore the experimental, interdisciplinary and radically transgressive field of contemporary live art in South Africa, focusing on a wide range of perspectives, personalities and theoretical concerns Contemporary South African society is chronologically ‘post’ apartheid, but it continues to grapple with material redress, land redistribution and systemic racism. Acts of Transgression represents the complexity of this moment in the rich potential of a performative art form that transcends disciplinary boundaries and aesthetic conventions. The contributors, who are all significantly involved in the discipline of performance art, probe its intersection with crisis and socio-political turbulence, shifting notions of identity and belonging, embodied trauma and loss. Narratives of the past and visions for the future are interrogated through memory and the archive, thus destabilising entrenched colonial systems. Collectively analysing the work of more than 25 contemporary South African artists, including Athi-Patra Ruga, Mohau Modisakeng, Steven Cohen, Dean Hutton, Mikhael Subotzsky, Tracey Rose and Donna Kukama, among others, the analysis is accompanied by a visual record of more than 50 photographs. For those working in the fields of theatre, performance studies and art, this is a must-have collection of critical essays on a burgeoning and exciting field of contemporary South African research.

Author : Taran Kang
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12-15
Category : Aesthetics, European
ISBN : 9781487529079

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Transgression and the Aesthetics of Evil by Taran Kang Pdf

Genius and the Spirit of Transgression -- Symbols of the Morally Bad -- Evil and the Sublime -- Wicked Spectators.

Author : Tim Cresswell
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780816623891

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In Place/out of Place by Tim Cresswell Pdf

In Place/Out of Place was first published in 1996. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. What is the relationship between place and behavior? In this fascinating volume, Tim Cresswell examines this question via "transgressive acts" that are judged as inappropriate not only because they are committed by marginalized groups but also because of where they occur. In Place/Out of Place seeks to illustrate the ways in which the idea of geographical deviance is used as an ideological tool to maintain an established order. Cresswell looks at graffiti in New York City, the attempts by various "hippie" groups to hold a free festival at Stonehenge during the summer solstices of 1984–86, and the Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp in Berkshire, England. In each of the cases described, the groups involved were designated as out of place both by the media and by politicians, whose descriptions included an array of images such as dirt, disease, madness, and foreignness. Cresswell argues that space and place are key factors in the definition of deviance and, conversely, that space and place are used to construct notions of order and propriety. In addition, whereas ideological concepts being expressed about what is good, just, and appropriate often are delineated geographically, the transgression of these delineations reveals the normally hidden relationships between place and ideology-in other words, the "out-of-place" serves to highlight and define the "in-place." By looking at the transgressions of the marginalized, Cresswell argues, we can gain a novel perspective on the "normal" and "taken-for-granted" expectations of everyday life. The book concludes with a consideration of the possibility of a "politics of transgression," arguing for a link between the challenging of spatial boundaries and the possibility of social transformation. Tim Cresswell is currently lecturer in geography at the University of Wales.

Author : Maquel A. Jacob
Publisher : MAJart Works LLC
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2023-02-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Acts of Transgression by Maquel A. Jacob Pdf

Azrom, Razzna, and New Lassa form an alliance to create a superpower. The Dreridians, not willing to have their reign disrupted, add themselves to the list. The enemy continues their sneak attacks across the five solar systems, disrupting trade. When they hit the neutral zone and steal two planet bombs, every empire joins forces to send them back from where they came. Outsiders need permission to play with the big guns. And they didn’t ask.

Author : Laura Bush
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015061102169

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Faithful Transgressions In The American West by Laura Bush Pdf

The subjects of Laura Bush's book are six Mormon women writers and their published autobiographies. The central issue Bush finds in these works is how their authors have dealt with the authority of Mormon Church leaders.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-13
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781118759073

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The Architecture of Transgression by Anonim Pdf

Transgression suggests operating beyond accepted norms andradically reinterpreting practice by pushing at the boundaries ofboth what architecture is, and what it could or even should be. Thecurrent economic crisis and accompanying political/social unresthas exacerbated the difficulty into which architecture has longbeen sliding: challenged by other professions and a culture ofconservatism, architecture is in danger of losing its prized statusas one of the pre-eminent visual arts. Transgression opens up newpossibilities for practice. It highlights the positive impact thatworking on the architectural periphery can make on the mainstream,as transgressive practices have the potential to reinvent andreposition the architectural profession: whether they aresubverting notions of progress; questioning roles and mechanisms ofproduction; aligning with political activism; pioneering urbaninterventions; advocating informal or incomplete development;actively destabilising environments or breaking barriers of taste.In this new dispersed and expanded field of operation, the balanceof architectural endeavour is shifted from object to process, fromservice to speculation, and from formal to informal in a way thatprovides both critical and political impetus to proactively affectchange. Contributors: Can Altay, Edward Denison and Guangyu Ren, KimDovey, Chris Jenks, David Littlefield, Silvia Loeffler, AlistairParvin, Louis Rice, Patrik Schumacher and Robin Wilson Featured architects: atelier d’architectureautogérée, Lina Bo Bardi, Construire/La Machine, EXYZT,Didier Faustino/Bureau des Mésarchitectures, Lacaton &Vassal, N55, Catie Newell/*Alibi Studio, Wang Shu, Superflex andBernard Tschumi

Author : Julian Wolfreys
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2008-09-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137021274

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Transgression by Julian Wolfreys Pdf

Julian Wolfreys introduces students to the central concept of transgression, showing how to interpret the concept from a number of theoretical standpoints. He demonstrates how texts from different cultural and historical periods can be read to examine the workings of 'transgression' and the way in which it has changed over time.

Author : Kristine Jorgensen,Faltin Karlsen
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019-02-05
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9780262038652

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Transgression in Games and Play by Kristine Jorgensen,Faltin Karlsen Pdf

Contributors from a range of disciplines explore boundary-crossing in videogames, examining both transgressive game content and transgressive player actions. Video gameplay can include transgressive play practices in which players act in ways meant to annoy, punish, or harass other players. Videogames themselves can include transgressive or upsetting content, including excessive violence. Such boundary-crossing in videogames belies the general idea that play and games are fun and non-serious, with little consequence outside the world of the game. In this book, contributors from a range of disciplines explore transgression in video games, examining both game content and player actions. The contributors consider the concept of transgression in games and play, drawing on discourses in sociology, philosophy, media studies, and game studies; offer case studies of transgressive play, considering, among other things, how gameplay practices can be at once playful and violations of social etiquette; investigate players' emotional responses to game content and play practices; examine the aesthetics of transgression, focusing on the ways that game design can be used for transgressive purposes; and discuss transgressive gameplay in a societal context. By emphasizing actual player experience, the book offers a contextual understanding of content and practices usually framed as simply problematic. Contributors Fraser Allison, Kristian A. Bjørkelo, Kelly Boudreau, Marcus Carter, Mia Consalvo, Rhys Jones, Kristine Jørgensen, Faltin Karlsen, Tomasz Z. Majkowski, Alan Meades, Torill Elvira Mortensen, Víctor Navarro-Remesal, Holger Pötzsch, John R. Sageng, Tanja Sihvonen, Jaakko Stenros, Ragnhild Tronstad, Hanna Wirman

Author : Katharine Kittredge
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2009-12-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780472024414

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Lewd and Notorious by Katharine Kittredge Pdf

Accounts of women's transgressive behavior in eighteenth-century literature and social documents have much to teach us about constructions of femininity during the period often identified as having formed our society's gender norms. Lewd and Notorious explores the eighteenth century's shadows, inhabited by marginal women of many kinds and degrees of contrariness. The reader meets Laetitia Pilkington, whose sexual indiscretions caused her to fall from social and literary grace to become an articulate memoirist of personal scandal, and Elizabeth Brownrigg, who tortured and starved her young servants, propelling herself to an infamy comparable to Susan Smith's or Myra Hindley's. More awful women wait between these covers to teach us about society's reception (and construction) of their debauchery and dangerousness. The authors draw upon a rich range of contemporary texts to illuminate the lives of these women. Astute analysis of literary, legal, evangelical, epistolary, and political documents provides an understanding of 1700s womanhood. From lusty old maids to murderous mistresses, the characters who exemplify this period's vision of women on the edge are essential acquaintances for anyone wishing to understand the development and ramifications of conceptions of femininity.

Author : JAY PATHER; CATHERINE BOULLE; KATLEGO DISEMELO; GA.
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-09
Category : Art and society
ISBN : 1776142802

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Acts of Transgression by JAY PATHER; CATHERINE BOULLE; KATLEGO DISEMELO; GA. Pdf

Author : Natalie Wigg-Stevenson
Publisher : SCM Press
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2021-02-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780334059479

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Transgressive Devotion by Natalie Wigg-Stevenson Pdf

Academic theology is in need of a new genre. In "Transgressive Devotion" Natalie Wigg-Stevenson articulates a theological vision of that genre as performance art. She argues that theology done as performance art stops trying to describe who God is, and starts trying to make God appear. Recognising that the act of studying theology or practicing ministry is always a performance, where the boundaries between what we see, feel, experience and learn are not just blurred but potentially invisible, Wigg-Stevenson brings together ethnographic theological fieldwork, historical and contemporary Christian theological traditions, and performance artworks themselves. A daring vision of theology which will energise anybody feeling ‘boxed in’ by the discipline, Transgressive Devotion blurs borders between orthodoxy, heterodoxy and heresy to reveal how the very act of doing theology makes God and humanity vulnerable to each other. This is theology which is a liturgy of Divine incantation. In other words: this is theology which is also prayer.

Author : Maya Socolovsky
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013-06-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813561196

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Troubling Nationhood in U.S. Latina Literature by Maya Socolovsky Pdf

This book examines the ways in which recent U.S. Latina literature challenges popular definitions of nationhood and national identity. It explores a group of feminist texts that are representative of the U.S. Latina literary boom of the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s, when an emerging group of writers gained prominence in mainstream and academic circles. Through close readings of select contemporary Mexican American, Puerto Rican, and Cuban American works, Maya Socolovsky argues that these narratives are “remapping” the United States so that it is fully integrated within a larger, hemispheric Americas. Looking at such concerns as nation, place, trauma, and storytelling, writers Denise Chavez, Sandra Cisneros, Esmeralda Santiago, Ana Castillo, Himilce Novas, and Judith Ortiz Cofer challenge popular views of Latino cultural “unbelonging” and make strong cases for the legitimate presence of Latinas/os within the United States. In this way, they also counter much of today’s anti-immigration rhetoric. Imagining the U.S. as part of a broader "Americas," these writings trouble imperialist notions of nationhood, in which political borders and a long history of intervention and colonization beyond those borders have come to shape and determine the dominant culture's writing and the defining of all Latinos as "other" to the nation.

Author : Chris Jenks
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0415257573

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Transgression by Chris Jenks Pdf

In this fast moving study, Chris Jenks presents a broad overview of the history of ideas, the major theorists and the significant moments in the formation of the idea of transgression.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 742 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1817
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HXJNX8

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The Holy Bible: Acts of the Apostles, Epistles to the Romans and Corinthians I & II by Anonim Pdf