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Intermedial Performance and Politics in the Public Sphere
This volume is a collection of scholarly articles and interviews with intermedial artists working with the concepts of public sphere at the intersection of aesthetics and politics. It explores the response of socially-engaged artistic practices to the current crisis in politics and media. It also critically examines urgent issues such as rampant nationalism and populism, expanding neoliberalism, the refugee crisis, growing inosculations of corporate and cyber culture, and the ongoing geopolitical changes in the Middle East. Can intermedial performances reflect the present artistic and political dilemmas in Europe and beyond? The collection provides theoretical frameworks that interrogate the...
metamorphosen 12 - Loslegen
Salbeitrips und Art Garfunkel; über unendliche Treppen und die nie enden wollende Flucht in den Frieden; die Poesie der Algorithmen gegen die Allmacht der Möbelkonzerne; Gedanken zu Blogs, neue Lyrik und ein Gespräch in New York. Oder, anders gesagt: Texte, die etwas wollen. Loslegen nämlich. Den Aufbruch, die Wende, den Vorstoß. Texte, die fragen, wer sich wo noch was traut heute beim Schreiben. Die den Bogen überspannen, etwas wagen. "Kühn totalitär roh kämpferisch und lustig", so müsse geschrieben werden, das forderte einmal einer in Klagenfurt, mit offener Stirn und blutigem Gesicht, "so wie der heftig denkende Mensch lebt."
Horst Janssen und Günter Grass
"Horst Janssen war einer 'der ganz Grossen', so Günter Grass, vielleicht der bedeutendste Zeichner des 20. Jahrhunderts. Am 14. November 2019 wäre Janssen 90 Jahre alt geworden. Ihm ist der erste Themenschwerpunkt des vierten Freipass-Bandes gewidmet. Es folgen Diskussionsbeiträge zur internationalen Grass-Rezeption und zur Grass-Forschung, die sich u.a. mit Theodor Fontane, Eva Figes und Nicolas Born im Hinblick auf ihr Verhältnis zum Lebenswerk des grossen Danzigers beschäftigen. Und in der politischen Rubrik 'Zunge zeigen' wird ausführlich einer der grössten Problemkomplexe unserer Zeit behandelt: Rechtspopulismus, Werteverlust, Mordanschläge und die Folgen für unsere Gesellschaft - u.a. aus der Sicht von Dagmar Leupold, Robert Menasse, Norbert Niemann und Kathrin Röggla"--Page 4 of cover.
Ecoscenography
This ground-breaking book is the first to bring an ecological focus to theatre and performance design, both in scholarship and in practice. Ecoscenography weaves environmental philosophies and practices across genres and fields to provide a captivating vision for the future of sustainable theatre production. The book forefronts leading designers that are driving this emerging field into the mainstream through their relational and reciprocal engagement with place, audiences, materials, and processes. Beyond its radical philosophy and framework, Ecoscenography makes a compelling case for pursuing an ecological ethic in theatre and performance design, not only as a moral imperative, but for the extraordinary possibilities that it offers for more-than-human engagement. Based on her personal insights as a leading ecological researcher and practitioner, Beer offers a rich resource for scholars, students and practitioners alike, opening up new processes and aesthetics of theatrical design that enhance the environmental and social advocacy of the field.
metamorphosen 11 - Außenrum
Seit 2013 erscheinen die "metamorphosen" vierteljährlich in Berlin. Im jungen "Magazin für Literatur und Kultur" stehen unveröffentlichte, neue Lyrik und Prosa neben Essays, Rezensionen, Porträts und ausführlichen Interviews. Hier und jetzt, mit der elften Ausgabe, wird ein Neubeginn gewagt. Denn ab sofort erscheint das Magazin beim Verbrecher Verlag - und im neuen Look. "Außenrum" heißt das neue Thema entsprechend. Könnte man meinen. Das Wort aber verweist nicht nur auf Cover, Weißraum, Titel und Typografie, vielmehr wird hier die Frage der Verpackung allgemeiner gestellt: Ist die Verpackung der neue Inhalt? Wann wird Verpackung zum Inhalt, wann wird das Außen zum Innen? Welche Verpackung geben wir uns heute, wie gestalten wir uns - welche Rollen nehmen wir an - offline und online, in sozialen Medien und Co.? Antwortversuche gibt's hier, drinnen, in den "metamorphosen 11". Mit Beiträgen von u.a. Tobias Amslinger, Hannes Bajohr, Moritz Gause, Kerstin Grether, Kinga Tóth und Wolfgang Welt.
Tram 83
Two friends, one a budding writer home from Europe, the other an ambitious racketeer, meet in the only nightclub, the Tram 83, in a war-torn city-state in secession, surrounded by profit-seekers of all languages and nationalities. Tram 83 plunges the reader into the modern African gold rush as cynical as it is comic and colorfully exotic, using jazz rhythms to weave a tale of human relationships in a world that has become a global village. Fiston Mwanza Mujila (b. 1981, Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of Congo) is a poet, dramatist, and scholar. Tram 83 is his award-winning and raved-about debut novel that caused a literary sensation when published in France in August 2014.
Barber Shop Chronicles
Newsroom, political platform, local hot spot, confession box, preacher-pulpit and football stadium. For generations, African men have gathered in barber shops to discuss the world. These are places where the banter can be barbed and the truth is always telling. Barber Shop Chronicles, which was partly inspired by verbatim recordings, is a heart-warming, hilarious and insightful play that leaps from a barber shop in Peckham to Johannesburg, Harare, Kampala, Lagos and Accra over the course of a single day. It was first produced by the National Theatre, Fuel and Leeds Playhouse in 2017 and is here publishedas a Methuen Drama Student Edition with commentary and notes by Oladipo Agboluaje.
Liccle Bit
What's worse than hiding a secret? Liccle Bit's about to find out... Venetia King is the hottest girl at school. Too bad Lemar is the second shortest guy in his year. Everyone calls him Liccle Bit, and his two best friends, McKay and Jonah, never tire of telling him he has no chance with girls. Things aren't much better at home. His mum is permanently hassled, his sister a frustrated single mum and his dad moved out years ago. Liccle Bit wishes he could do something - anything! - to make life better. A new phone would be a start... When Venetia starts paying Liccle Bit attention, he secretly hopes he's on a fast track to a first date. Unfortunately, as a new gang war breaks out, he finds himself on a fast track to something much more sinister. South Crongton's notorious gang leader has taken an interest in Liccle Bit. Before he knows what's happening, he finds himself running errands. But when he hears about a killing on the estate, Liccle Bit is forced to question his choices. How can he possibly put things right?
Resetting the Stage
Commercial theatre is thriving across Europe, while public theatre has suffered under changing patterns of cultural consumption - as well as sharp reductions in government subsidies for the arts. At a time when the rationale behind these subsidies is being widely reexamined, it has never been more important for public theatre to demonstrate its continued merit. In Resetting the Stage, Dragan Klaic argues convincingly that, in an increasingly crowded market of cultural goods, public theatre is best served not by imitating its much larger commercial counterpart, but by asserting its artistic dis.
Chapel of Inadvertent Joy
"Reading Jeffrey McDaniel's gorgeously dark and utterly compelling Chapel of Inadvertent Joy reminds me that he is probably the most important poet in America. The book in your hands was written by a master of metaphor and a poet of huge imagination and fierce ingenuity, a fine antidote to realism. Get this voice in your head."—Major Jackson
