Performance and the politics of space [electronic resource] : theatre and topology / [edited by] Erika Fischer-Lichte and Benjamin Wihstutz.
2013
PN2039 .P395 2013
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Performance and the politics of space [electronic resource] : theatre and topology / [edited by] Erika Fischer-Lichte and Benjamin Wihstutz.
ISBN
9780415509688
9780203094914 (electronic book)
9780203094914 (electronic book)
Publication Details
New York : Routledge, 2013.
Language
English
Description
xiv, 311 p. : ill.
Call Number
PN2039 .P395 2013
Dewey Decimal Classification
792.01
Summary
"From its very beginnings, theatre has been both an art and a public space, shared by actors and spectators. As a result, its entity and history is intimately tied to politics: a politics of inclusion and exclusion, of distributions and placements, of spatial appropriation and utopian concepts. This collection examines what is at stake when a theatrical space is created and when a performance takes place; it asks under what circumstances the topology of theatre becomes political. The book approaches this issue from various angles, taking theatre as a cultural paradigm for political dimensions of space in its respective historical context. Visiting the political dimensions of theatrical space in both theatre history and contemporary performance, the volume responds to the so-called spatial turn in cultural and historical studies, and questions a politics of aesthetics that is discussed in continental philosophy. The book visits different levels and linkages between aesthetic theory and geography, art and sociology, architecture and political theory, and geometry and history, shedding new light on theatre, politics, and space, thereby transforming this historically intertwined triad into a transdisciplinary theme"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Fischer-Lichte, Erika.
Wihstutz, Benjamin, 1978-
Wihstutz, Benjamin, 1978-
Series
Routledge advances in theatre and performance studies ; 24
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