On Labour & Performance

Art: Call for proposals
Deadline: 24.04.2011

Performance Research 18.1 (February 2013): ‘On Labour & Performance’ Issue Editors: Gabriele Klein & Bojana Kunst Performance practice has always been tightly intertwined with the exploration of, and experimentation with modes of working, collaborating and producing artistic work. Throughout the twentieth-century the development of new collaborative processes and the organisation of arti ...
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Performing Animality: Animals in Performance Practices

Art: Call for Contributions
Datum: 30.05.2012

Expressions of interest are invited from scholars in areas of theatre and performance studies and animal studies to contribute to an edited volume on the topic: Performing Animality: Animals in Performance Practices The animal has been a constant driving force of performance as performer, as thematic or symbolic inspiration, and as an evocation of the human condition. In contemporary perfor ...
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Forum Modernes Theater : Band 25/2

Ort: Tübingen
Verlag: Gunter Narr Verlag

Jahr: 2012
Autor(en):
Umfang / Preis: EUR 30,00

Das neue "Forum Modernes Theater" trägt der theaterästhetischen Trendwende der letzten Jahre Rechnung. Die Zeitschrift untersucht das Theater in seinen kulturellen, ästhetischen und geschichtlichen Erscheinungsformen und gibt dabei allen Facetten der Fachdiskussion einschließlich kultur- und medienwissenschaftlicher Ansätze spartenübergreifend Raum. Tanz- und Musiktheater finden hier ebenso ...
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Das bildnerische Denken: Charles S. Peirce

Ort: Berlin
Verlag: Akademie Verlag GmbH

Jahr: 2012
Autor(en):
Herausgeber: Tullio Viola, Moritz Queisner, Franz Engel
ISBN: 978-3-05-005696-8
Umfang / Preis: 346 Seiten / EUR 79,80

"I do not think I ever reflect in words: I employ visual diagrams [...]" Diese Selbstbeschreibung von Charles S. Peirce (1839-1914) bildet den Ausgangspunkt für eine neue Sicht auf das Denken des amerikanischen Naturwissenschaftlers, Philosophen und Begründers des Pragmatismus und der Semiotik. Peirce war ein obsessiver Zeichner. Neben einer graphischen Logik entwickelte er eine zeichnerische Pr ...
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Cosmology and the Polis: The Social Construction of Space and Time in the Tragedies of Aeschylus

Ort: Cambridge (UK)
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Jahr: 2012
Autor(en): Richard Seaford
Herausgeber:
ISBN: 9781107009271
Umfang / Preis: 380 pages / £65.00

This book further develops Professor Seaford's innovative work on the study of ritual and money in the developing Greek polis. It employs the concept of the chronotope, which refers to the phenomenon whereby the spatial and temporal frameworks explicit or implicit in a text have the same structure, and uncovers various such chronotopes in Homer, the Homeric Hymn to Demeter, Presocratic philosophy ...
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Performing Gender Violence: Plays by Contemporary American Women Dramatists

Ort: New York
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan Ltd.

Jahr: 2012
Autor(en):
Herausgeber: Noelia Hernando-Real, Barbara Ozieblo
ISBN: 9780230339958
Umfang / Preis: 204 pages / £52.00

Violence against women in plays bywomen has earned little mention. This revolutionary collection fills that gap, focusing on plays by American women dramatists, written in the last thirty years, that deal with different forms of gender violence. Each author discusses specific manifestations of violence in carefully selected plays: psychological, familial, war-time, and social injustice. This book ...
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Shakespeare and the Staging of English History

Ort: Michigan
Verlag: The University of Michigan Press

Jahr: 2012
Autor(en): Janette Dillon
Herausgeber:
ISBN: 978-0-19-959316-3
Umfang / Preis: 160 pages /

This new study of Shakespeare's English history plays looks at the plays through the lens of early modern staging, focusing on the recurrence of particular stage pictures and 'units of action', and seeking to show how these units function in particular and characteristic ways within the history plays. Through close analysis of stage practice and stage picture, the book builds a profile of the kind ...
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Acts of Activism. Human Rights as Radical Performance

Ort: Cambridge
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Jahr: 2012
Autor(en): D. Soyini Madison
Herausgeber:
ISBN: 9781107404380
Umfang / Preis: 336 pages / £ 23.00

This book was first published in 2010. Madison presents the neglected yet compelling and necessary story of local activists in South Saharan Africa who employ modes of performance as tactics of resistance and intervention in their day-to-day struggles for human rights. The dynamic relationship between performance and activism are illustrated in three case studies: Act One presents a battle between ...
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