Performance And The Contemporary City

Author : Nicolas Whybrow
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137120069

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Performance and the Contemporary City by Nicolas Whybrow Pdf

Cities, with their rising populations and complex configurations, have become key symbols of a fast-changing modernity. This timely collection gathers together various urban writings from a range of relevant disciplines, including architecture, geography, sociology, visual art, ethnography and psychoanalysis. Its focus, however, is performance. Underscoring the importance of the field, it shows how performance functions as a dynamic, interdisciplinary mechanism which is central not only to understanding the multiplicity of urban living but also to the way the identities of cities are shaped. Gathering together key writings on the city and performance by authors ranging from Walter Benjamin to Tim Etchells to Carl Lavery, the reader can be navigated in any number of ways. Supported by extensive introductory material, it will be essential and evocative reading for anyone interested in making connections between performance and urban life.

Author : Philippe van Cauteren,Claire Bishop,Mirjam Varadinis,Thomas Caron,Hendrik Defoort,Chris Dercon,Lieze Eneman,Lotte De Voeght,Stefan Hertmans,Boris Groĭs,Maria Hlavajova,Wim van Mulders,Maria Schnyder,Thibaut Verhoeven
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Art
ISBN : 9077459839

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TRACK by Philippe van Cauteren,Claire Bishop,Mirjam Varadinis,Thomas Caron,Hendrik Defoort,Chris Dercon,Lieze Eneman,Lotte De Voeght,Stefan Hertmans,Boris Groĭs,Maria Hlavajova,Wim van Mulders,Maria Schnyder,Thibaut Verhoeven Pdf

TRACK is an art experience taking place in the public and semi-public space of Ghent. It offers enriching and unexpected encounters with the city, its history and its inhabitants, stimulating reflection on urban realities and, in a wider sense, the contemporary human condition. Thirty-five international artists were invited to conceive new artworks strongly rooted in the urban fabric of Ghent, but linking the local context with issues of global significance. Participants include multi-media artist John Bock, performance artist and choreographer Alexandra Bachzetsis, painter Erik van Lieshout, and visual artist Mircea Cantor, among many others.0Exhibition: Gent (12.5.-16.9.2012).

Author : Mark Jayne
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351951289

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City of Quarters by Mark Jayne Pdf

In cities throughout the world, there is an increasingly ubiquitous presence of distinct social and spatial areas - urban villages, cultural and ethnic quarters. These spaces are sites where capital and culture intertwine in new ways. City of Quarters brings together some of the most prominent authors writing about urban villages to provide the first systematic and multi-disciplinary overview of this high-profile urban phenomenon. They address key questions such as 'What is the role of urban villages and quarters in the contemporary city?' and 'What are the economic, political, socio-spatial and cultural practices and processes that surround these urban spaces?' Blending conceptual chapters with theoretically directed case studies from all over the world, this book includes issues such as local and regional development strategies, production, consumption, the creative industries, popular culture, identity, lifestyle, and tourism.

Author : N. Whybrow
Publisher : Springer
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2014-08-19
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137455697

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Performing Cities by N. Whybrow Pdf

Performing Cities is an edited volume of contributions by a range of internationally renowned academics and performance makers from across the globe, each one covering a particular city and examining it from the dynamic perspectives of performances occurring in cities and the city itself as performance.

Author : James C. Bulman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191510816

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The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Performance by James C. Bulman Pdf

Shakespearean performance criticism has undergone a sea change in recent years, and strong tides of discovery are continuing to shift the contours of the discipline. The essays in this volume, written by scholars from around the world, reveal how these critical cross-currents are influencing the ways we now view Shakespeare in performance. The volume is organised in four Parts. Part I interrogates how Shakespeare continues to achieve contemporaneity for Western audiences by exploring modes of performance, acting styles, and aesthetic choices regarded as experimental. Part II tackles the burgeoning field of reception: how and why audiences respond to performances as they do, or actors to the conditions in which they perform; how immersive productions turn spectators into actors; how memory and cognition shape and reshape the performances we think we saw. Part III addresses the ways in which revolutions in technology have altered our views of Shakespeare, both through the mediums of film and sound recording, and through digitalizing processes that have generated a profound reconsideration of what performance is and how it is accessed. The final Part grapples with intercultural Shakespeare, considering not only matters of cultural hegemony and appropriation in a 'global' importation of non-Western productions to Europe and North America, but also how Shakespeare has been made 'local' in performances staged or filmed in African, Asian, and Latin American countries. Together, these ground-breaking essays attest to the richness and diversity of Shakespearean performance criticism as it is practiced today, and they point the way to critical continents not yet explored.

Author : Ananda Breed,Tim Prentki
Publisher : Springer
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-17
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783319665177

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Performance and Civic Engagement by Ananda Breed,Tim Prentki Pdf

This book explores 'civic engagement' as a politically active encounter between institutions, individuals and art practices that addresses the public sphere on a civic level across physical and virtual spaces. Taking a multidisciplinary approach, it tracks across the overlapping discourses of politics, cultural geography and performance, investigating how and why physical and digital spaces can be analysed and utilised to develop new art forms that challenge traditional notions of how performance is political and how politics are performative. Across three sections - Politicising Communities, Applying Digital Agency and Performing Landscapes and Identities - the ten chapters and three interviews cover a wide variety of international perspectives, all informed by innovative ways of addressing the current crisis of social fragmentation through performance. Providing access to many debates on the theory and practice of new media, this book is of significance to readers from a broad set of academic disciplines, including politics, sociology, geography, and performance studies.

Author : Sara Adhitya
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-17
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781911576518

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Musical Cities by Sara Adhitya Pdf

Sara Adhitya is an urban designer and Research Associate with the Accessibility Research Group at UCL. Awarded a European Doctorate in the 'Quality of Design' of Architecture and Urban Planning by the University IUAV of Venice and the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, she draws on her multidisciplinary background in environmental design, architecture, urbanism, music and sound design, in her interactive and multisensorial approach to urban design. She collaborates with a range of non-profit and governmental organizations around the world towards improving urban liveability and sustainability through participatory design and planning.

Author : Petra Kuppers
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-17
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781136500404

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Disability and Contemporary Performance by Petra Kuppers Pdf

Disability and Contemporary Performance presents a remarkable challenge to existing assumptions about disability and artistic practice. In particular, it explores where cultural knowledge about disability leaves off, and the lived experience of difference begins. Petra Kuppers, herself an award-winning artist and theorist, investigates the ways in which disabled performers challenge, change and work with current stereotypes through their work. She explores freak show fantasies and 'medical theatre' as well as live art, webwork, theatre, dance, photography and installations, to cast an entirely new light on contemporary identity politics and aesthetics. This is an outstanding exploration of some of the most pressing issues in performance, cultural and disability studies today, written by a leading practitioner and critic.

Author : Giorgio Verdiani,Per Cornell
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781326112080

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ARCHITECTURE, ARCHAEOLOGY AND CONTEMPORARY CITY PLANNING - Proceedings of the workshop by Giorgio Verdiani,Per Cornell Pdf

Author : Uta Staiger,Henriette Steiner,Andrew Webber
Publisher : Springer
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2009-10-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230246959

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Memory Culture and the Contemporary City by Uta Staiger,Henriette Steiner,Andrew Webber Pdf

These essays by leading figures from academia, architecture and the arts consider how cultures of memory are constructed for and in contemporary cities. They take Berlin as a key case of a historically burdened metropolis, but also extend to other global cities: Jerusalem, Buenos Aires, Cape Town and New York.

Author : Alison Bick Hirsch
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 670 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-15
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781452940977

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City Choreographer by Alison Bick Hirsch Pdf

One of the most prolific and influential landscape architects of the twentieth century, Lawrence Halprin (1916–2009) was best known for the FDR Memorial in Washington, D.C., and Sea Ranch, the iconic planned community in California. These projects, as well as vibrant public spaces throughout the country—from Ghirardelli Square and Market Street in San Francisco to Lovejoy Fountain Park in Portland and Nicollet Mall in Minneapolis—grew out of a participatory design process that was central to Halprin’s work and is proving ever more relevant to urban design today. In City Choreographer, urban designer and historian Alison Bick Hirsch explains and interprets this creative process, called the RSVP Cycles, referring to the four components: resources, score, valuation, and performance. With access to a vast archive of drawings and documents, Hirsch provides the first close-up look at how Halprin changed our ideas about urban landscapes. As an urban pioneer, he found his frontier in the nation’s densely settled metropolitan areas during the 1960s. Blurring the line between observer and participant, he sought a way to bring openness to the rigidly controlled worlds of architectural modernism and urban renewal. With his wife, Anna, a renowned avant-garde dancer and choreographer, Halprin organized workshops involving artists, dancers, and interested citizens that produced “scores,” which then informed his designs. City Choreographer situates Halprin within the larger social, artistic, and environmental ferment of the 1960s and 1970s. In doing so, it demonstrates his profound impact on the shape of landscape architecture and his work’s widening reach into urban and regional development and contemporary concerns of sustainability.

Author : S. Nombuso Dlamini,Angela Stienen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2022-05-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429785399

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Spatialized Injustice in the Contemporary City by S. Nombuso Dlamini,Angela Stienen Pdf

This volume documents research illustrating public dissents and interventions to injustice in modern-day cities. Authors present everyday occurrences of city life and place making; still, they show how the ordinary city grows from historical dimensions of injustice, violence and fear. Yet, ordinary citizens continue to make the city their own, to contribute to the creation of city structures and to contest those practices of spatial demarcation, which limit rather than uplift their everyday social livelihood. Chapters show how marginalized populations, from racial, to gendered, to the working poor, are part of the apparatus that makes the city function. However, their contributions to city arrangement and endurance are perpetually at the margins, and city spaces continue to be designed in ways that ignore and negate the existence of those who protest inequity. Novel to the volume are chapters that document and illustrate contestations of city spaces through artistic representation. Public spaces like schools, art galleries and museums are presented as central to projects of inhabiting, remembering and reimagining (in) the just city. Still, ordinary city spaces, like the public washroom, illustrate issues of gender inequity, spatial bias and other art-based protests. City dwellers interested in learning about ‘the making’ of the city; and those interested in the city as a space of possibilities – and the good life, will benefit from this volume. Scholars of geography, space, art and social justice will marvel and simultaneously be appalled by the everyday minute, yet shocking descriptions of the complexity – and unfairly structured city spaces in which they dwell.

Author : Rossella Ferrari,Ashley Thorpe
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-17
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781000381207

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Asian City Crossings by Rossella Ferrari,Ashley Thorpe Pdf

Asian City Crossings is the first volume to examine the relationship between the city and performance from an Asian perspective. This collection introduces "city as method" as a new conceptual framework for the investigation of practices of city-based performing arts collaboration and city-to-city performance networks across East- and Southeast Asia and beyond. The shared and yet divergent histories of the global cities of Hong Kong and Singapore as postcolonial, multiethnic, multicultural, and multilingual sites, are taken as points of departure to demonstrate how "city as method" facilitates a comparative analytical space that foregrounds in-betweenness and fluid positionalities. It situates inter-Asian relationality and inter-city referencing as centrally significant dynamics in the exploration of the material and ideological conditions of contemporary performance and performance exchange in Asia. This study captures creative dialogue that travels city-based pathways along the Hong Kong-Singapore route, as well as between Hong Kong and Singapore and other cities, through scholarly analyses and practitioner reflections drawn from the fields of theatre, performance, and music. This book combines essays by scholars of Asian studies, theatre studies, ethnomusicology, and human geography with reflective accounts by Hong Kong and Singapore-based performing arts practitioners to highlight the diversity, vibrancy, and complexity of creative projects that destabilise notions of identity, belonging, and nationhood through strategies of collaborative conviviality and transnational mobility across multi-sited networks of cities in Asia. In doing so, this volume fills a considerable gap in global scholarly discourse on performance and the city and on the production and circulation of the performing arts in Asia.

Author : Emily Klein,Jennifer-Scott Mobley,Jill Stevenson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-22
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783030015817

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Performing Dream Homes by Emily Klein,Jennifer-Scott Mobley,Jill Stevenson Pdf

This anthology explores how theatre and performance use home as the prism through which we reconcile shifts in national, cultural, and personal identity. Whether examining parlor dramas and kitchen sink realism, site-specific theatre, travelling tent shows, domestic labor, border performances, fences, or front yards, these essays demonstrate how dreams of home are enmeshed with notions of neighborhood, community, politics, and memory. Recognizing the family home as a symbolic space that extends far beyond its walls, the nine contributors to this collection study diverse English-language performances from the US, Ireland, and Canada. These scholars of theatre history, dramaturgy, performance, cultural studies, feminist and gender studies, and critical race studies also consider the value of home at a time increasingly defined by crises of homelessness — a moment when major cities face affordable housing shortages, when debates about homeland and citizenship have dominated international elections, and when conflicts and natural disasters have displaced millions. Global struggles over immigration, sanctuary, refugee status and migrant labor make the stakes of home and homelessness ever more urgent and visible, as this timely collection reveals.

Author : Kim Solga,S. Orr,D.J. Hopkins
Publisher : Springer
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230305212

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Performance and the City by Kim Solga,S. Orr,D.J. Hopkins Pdf

Winner of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education Excellence in Editing Award 2016 Urban studies has long understood the city as a 'text'. What would it mean now to use performance to rethink that metaphor? Performance and the City queries the role theatre and performance play in urban policy, architecture, and civic history, while also exploring their important place in the memories created in the wake of urban trauma.