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Posthuman Spiritualities in Contemporary Performance: Politics, Ecologies and Perceptions
Artist/Author: Silvia Battista | Reference: P3648 | ISBN: 978-3319897578 | Type: Publication

Examines five performance/artworks: The Artist is Present (2010) by Marina Abramović; The Deer Shelter Skyscape (2007) by James Turrell; CAT (1998) by Ansuman Biswas; Journey to the Lower World by Marcus Coates (2004); and the work with pollen by Wolfgang Laib.

agency ambiguity Ansuman Biswas apparatus attention audience becoming body boundaries CAT consciousness creativity criticism divine ecology embodiment environment experience feminism gallery gazing hermeneutics human imagination inside introspection James Turrell journey Karen Barad knowledge language Marcus Coates Marina Abramović material materiality matter meditation Michel Foucault mind nature numinousity pain perception performance perspective pollen possibility Quakerism religion Rudolf Otto sacred space science self silence skin spectatorship spirituality theatre theory time Wolfgang Laib worship

When Species Meet
Artist/Author: Donna J. Haraway | Reference: P3658 | ISBN: 978-0816650460 | Type: Publication

Contemplates the interactions of humans with many kinds of critters, especially with those called domestic.

activism agility animal Anthropocene Australia baboon bahviour biosociality CAT chicken companionship contact zones dog dog breeder ecology emergence encounter genetic diversity human exceptionalism humanism humankind killing lab animal language love microorganism nature philosophy posthumanism sacrifice science sheep suffering theory therapy dog training whale wolf

Encounters in Performance Philosophy
Editor: Laura Cull, Alice Lagaay | Reference: P3589 | ISBN: 978-1137462718 | Type: Publication

A collection of 14 essays by international scholars and practitioners from across the disciplines of Philosophy, Literature and Theatre and Performance Studies, addressing the nature of the relationship between philosophy and performance.

acting affect Alan Read Alice Lagaay Arno Böhler author body character Christianity cognition consciousness corporality Denis Guénoun dialectics embodiment Emmanuel Alloa Esa Kirkkopelto ethics fiction Freddie Rokem future Gilles Deleuze identity immanence invisible J. L. Austin Jean-Luc Nancy Katja Rothe knowledge language Laura Cull literature Martin Heidegger Martin Puchner Merleau-Ponty metaphysics mimesis morality nature Nietzsche Nimrod Reitman origin Paul A. Kottman pedagogy performativity Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe Plato politics power process public religion repetition representation sacrifice self sensibility Sigmund Freud site specific Socrates speculation Sybille Krämer tragedy Walter Benjamin

Gender Trouble
Artist/Author: Judith Butler | Reference: P3568 | ISBN: 978-0415389556 | Type: Publication

Arguing that traditional feminism is wrong to look to a natural, ‘essential’ notion of the female, or indeed of sex or gender, Butler starts by questioning the category ‘woman’ and continues in this vein with examinations of ‘the masculine’ and ‘the feminine’.

body femininity feminism gender gender binary gender spectrum homosexuality identity intersexuality language law lesbian Luce Irigaray masculinity Michel Foucault Monique Wittig performance performativity of gender power sex sexuality Sigmund Freud Simone de Beauvoir social performance women

The Little Book of Answers Vol.1
Artist/Author: Laura Malacart | Reference: P3539 | Type: Publication

Compiles the correct answers of six UK naturalisation exams.

Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).

activism audience Britishness citizenship human rights immigration language Manchester Central Library participation politics Tate Modern voice

From Acting to Performance: Essays in Modernism
Artist/Author: Philip Auslander | Reference: P3503 | ISBN: 978-0415157870 | Type: Publication

Surveys the changes in acting and performance during the crucial transition from the ecstatic theatre of the 1960s to the ironic postmodernism of the 1980s.

acting actor Antonin Artaud archetype Arthur Miller audience Bertolt Brecht body capitalism choreography cultural theory culture dance Denise Collier difference experience Fredric Jameson gender identity ideology interpretation irony Jerzy Grotowski joke Kate Bornstein Konstantin Stanislavski language Meredith Monk minimalism modernism narrative ORLAN performance Peter Brook political art politics presence resistance Richard Schechner Rosanne Barr self stand-up subjectivity Susan Foster theatre Vito Acconci Willem Dafoe women Wooster Group

To All Appearances: Ideology and Performance
Artist/Author: Herbert Blau | Reference: P3507 | ISBN: 978-0415013659 | Type: Publication

The author’s concerns – which include the social meaning of illusion and the cultural manifestation of power – take the reader from Eleanora Duse to Laurie Anderson; from the puppet theatre of Kleist to Kantor’s theatre of the dead; and from the Kutiyattam temple dancers in Kerala to Womanhouse in Los Angeles.

acting AIDS Antonin Artaud Bertolt Brecht body character commodification desire directing emotions gender history ideology language Marina Abramović modernism Oedipus performance art power realism Robert Wilson Roland Barthes Samuel Beckett Sigmund Freud spectacle subjectivity theatre theory truth Vsevolod Meyerhold William Shakespeare

Touch Me Festival 2017
Editor: Mónica Bello, Tereza Teklic | Reference: P3431 | Type: Publication

Festival / exhibition catalogue. 6-18 October 2017.

In Croatian and English.

Ale de la Puente Alfonso Borragán Ana Sladetić CERN Croatia documentation environment Filip Borelli imagination Iva Ćurić Kerstin Ergenzinger knowledge Kontejner language Martin Howse Martina Zelenika Mónica Bello moon Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Rijeka NikaJurlin perception science Semiconductor technology Vanessa Lorenzo visual art Yunchul Kim Zagreb

Repetition in Performance: Returns and Invisible Forces
Artist/Author: Eirini Kartsaki | Reference: P3429 | ISBN: 978-1137430533 | Type: Publication

While considering repetition in relation to the difficult pleasures we derive from the theatre, this book explores ways of accounting for such experiences of theatre in memory and writing.

Adrian Heathfield Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker audience Bluebeard Daniel Hit by a Train desire duration excess Haranczak/Navarre John Cale Jouissance language live art Lone Twin Marco Berrettini performance art Pina Bausch Rebecca Schneider Roland Barthes Samuel Beckett Slavoj Žižek spectatorship Yvonne Rainer

Theatre at the Crossroads of Culture
Artist/Author: Patrice Pavis | Reference: P3300 | ISBN: 978-0415060387 | Type: Publication

Despite the problematic politics of cultural exchange in the theatre, interculturalism is not a one-sided process. Using the metaphor of the hourglass to discuss the transfer between source and target culture, Pavis asks what happens when the hourglass is turned upside down, when the `foreign’ culture speaks for itself.

Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).

 

aesthetics appropriation audience Cixous colonialism dramaturgy Eugenio Barba Faust gesture human rights Indiande interculturalism intertext language Mahabharata minority Mnouchkina multiculturalism perception performance performance analysis Peter Brook politics postcolonialism semiotics subtext theatre theory universal declaration of human rights video Western culture

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