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Transdisciplinary approaches to the notions of “the contemporary” and “contemporaneity” Futures of the Contemporary explores different notions and manifestations of “the contemporary” in music, visual arts, art theory, and philosophy. In particular, the authors in this collection of essays scrutinise the role of artistic research in critical and creative expressions of contemporaneity. When distinguished from “the contemporaneous” of a given historical time, “the contemporary” becomes a crucial concept, promoting or excluding objects and practices according to their ability to diagnose previously unnoticed aspects of the present. In this sense, the contemporary gains a cr...
How can aesthetic enquiry contribute to the study of visual culture? There seems to be little doubt that aesthetic theory ought to be of interest to the study of visual culture. For one thing, aesthetic vocabulary has far from vanished from contemporary debates on the nature of our visual experiences and its various shapes, a fact especially pertinent where dissatisfaction with vulgar value relativism prevails. Besides, the very question—ubiquitous in the debates on visual culture—of what is natural and what is acquired in our visual experiences has been a topic in aesthetics at least since the Enlightenment. And last but not least, despite attempts to study visual culture without employ...
Preliminary Material -- Looking at Postmodern Performances of Canonical Plays /Bilha Blum -- Dancing Clowns and Desert Dunes: Challenging Traditional Flamenco Imagery through 'Fusion' /Idit Suslik -- Old Arts in New Media: Reconfiguring Meaning and Performance in Opera 'Live in HD' /Adele Anderson -- Visionary Voice / Silent Clown -- Little Cinderella, Big Cinderella: Scenography as Performance /Filipa Malva -- Spatial Relations Speak the Language of Social Hierarchy /David Franklin and Milan Kohout -- The Full and the Void in the Theatre of Robert Wilson /Marcelo de Andrade Pereira -- The Explanatory Frame /Myer Taub -- Performance Art as Intervention in Everyday Life: Participation, the Public Sphere and the Production of Meaning /Alexandra Antoniadou.
Demography is everywhere in our lives: from birth to death. Indeed, the universal currencies of survival, development, reproduction, and recruitment shape the performance of all species, from microbes to humans. The number of techniques for demographic data acquisition and analyses across the entire tree of life (microbes, fungi, plants, and animals) has drastically increased in recent decades. These developments have been partially facilitated by the advent of technologies such as GIS and drones, as well as analytical methods including Bayesian statistics and high-throughput molecular analyses. However, despite the universality of demography and the significant research potential that could...
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Over the last few decades, the notion of improvisation has enriched and dynamized research on traditional philosophies of music, theatre, dance, poetry, and even visual art. This Handbook offers readers an authoritative collection of accessible articles on the philosophy of improvisation, synthesizing and explaining various subjects and issues from the growing wave of journal articles and monographs in the field. Its 48 chapters, written specifically for this volume by an international team of scholars, are accessible for students and researchers alike. The volume is organized into four main sections: I Art and Improvisation: Theoretical Perspectives II Art and Improvisation: Aesthetical, Et...
Roger Pol-Droit's highly original book is a reassessment of our day-to-day engagement with life. In 101 short texts, written with limpid elegance, Droit invites us to reconsider our most ordinary actions as unexpected philosophical events: peeling an apple, trying to lie in a hammock, watching someone sleep, hearing your voice on an answering machine, playing with a small child - activities that, when considered outside of their routine, invite us to experience the familiar in startling new ways. Droit encourages us to go further: pretend to be an animal of your choice, create a wall with your hands, try to walk around your room in total darkness, spend time in the Underground - and observe your oddity.
Este libro no presenta la parodia no como un modo de expresión cómica sino como una reinscripción irónica de la obra parodiada, un diálogo intertextual entre el texto parodiado y el parodiante. Es un elemento de estructuración central de todas las obras de arte posmodernas, incluidas las cinematográficas. La parodia en el cine posmoderno establece y analiza la presencia de múltiples parodias en toda una serie de ejemplos fílmicos, desde los trabajos más actuales de Tarantino, Almodóvar y Sofia Coppola, hasta éxitos como Matrix o las obras que datan de los años setenta y ochenta del siglo xx, entre otras, Sueños de un seductor y Vestida para matar. Son películas que articulan s...
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