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How can various technologies, from the more conventional to the very new, be used to archive, share and understand dance movement? How can they become part of new ways of creating dance? What does this tell us about the ways in which technology is part of how we make sense and think? Well-known choreographers and dance collectives including William Forsythe, Siohban Davis, Merce Cunningham, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker and BADco. have initiated projects to investigate these questions, and in so doing have inaugurated a new era for dance archives, education, research and creation. Their work draws attention to the intimate relationship between the technologies we use and the ways in which we th...
Situated at the crossroads of performance practice, museology, and cultural studies, live arts curation has grown in recent years to become a vibrant interdisciplinary project and a genuine global phenomenon. Curating Live Arts brings together bold and innovative essays from an international group of theorist-practitioners to pose vital questions, propose future visions, and survey the landscape of this rapidly evolving discipline. Reflecting the field’s characteristic eclecticism, the writings assembled here offer practical and insightful investigations into the curation of theatre, dance, sound art, music, and other performance forms—not only in museums, but in community, site-specific, and time-based contexts, placing it at the forefront of contemporary dialogue and discourse.
Zeitgenössischen Tanz und Prozesse der Institutionalisierung verbindet ein komplexes Zusammenspiel. Der Band widmet sich diesen Verknüpfungen und reflektiert u.a. Praktiken der Produktion und Organisation (Festivals und Veranstaltungsorte, Projektförderung und Kulturmanagement, ästhetische Bildung und Ausbildung) sowie Formen der Institutionalisierung von Tanz durch Kritik und Wissenschaft. An der Schnittstelle von Theorie und Praxis angelegt, richten sich die Beiträge gleichermaßen an Wissenschaftler_innen wie an Praktiker_innen und fokussieren sowohl institutionskritische Fragen als auch praktische Informationen zu Produktionsstrukturen.
Band 3 der von Florian Malzacher herausgegebenen englischsprachigen Reihe Performing Urgency. Im Kontext heutiger Politik, Wirtschaft und sich permanent verändernden kulturellen Trends kommt das traditionelle Theater mit seiner Trennung von aktiven Darstellern und passiven Zuschauern immer mehr aus der Mode. Zeitgenössische Künstler emanzipieren ihr Publikum, laden es auf die Bühne und in die Performance ein, beleidigen und provozieren es und erproben verschiedenste Techniken der Teilhabe. Das Buch verbindet zahlreiche Beispiele von Publikumsbeteiligung mit Problemen der Partizipation in Demokratie und sozial engagierter Kunst. The nineteenth century was a century of actors. The twentiet...
Internationale Theaterfestivals positionieren sich in der Dekade des Krisenhaften neu. Sie hinterfragen Theater als lokalen Ort der Verhandlung internationaler und globalpolitischer Themen. In welcher Weise sie zu kulturpolitischen Akteuren werden und welche Strategien die Kurator*innen der Festivals verfolgen, untersucht Nicola Scherer-Henze am Beispiel der Festivals »steirischer herbst«, »Zürcher Theater Spektakel«, »Festival Theaterformen« und »Internationales Sommerfestival Kampnagel« sowie des Nachwuchsförderprogramms »Internationales Forum« der Berliner Festspiele. Die Positionen der Kurator*innen werden kontrastiert durch eine Außenperspektive aus Fördersicht, Kulturjournalismus und internationalem Festivalnetzwerk. Festival Studies at its Beginning!
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"Published in commemoration of Gramsci Monument, a work in public space by Thomas Hirschhorn, produced by Dia Art Foundation. Forest Houses, Bronx, New York, July 1-September 15, 2013."
“We’re doomed.” So begins the work of the philosopher whose unabashed and aphoristic indictments of the human condition have been cropping up recently in popular culture. Today we find ourselves in an increasingly inhospitable world that is, at the same time, starkly indifferent to our species-specific hopes, desires, and disappointments. In the Anthropocene, pessimism is felt everywhere but rarely given its proper place. Though pessimism may be, as Eugene Thacker says, the lowest form of philosophy, it may also contain an enigma central to understanding the horizon of the human. Written in a series of fragments, aphorisms, and prose poems, Thacker’s Cosmic Pessimism explores the varieties of pessimism and its often-conflicted relation to philosophy. “Crying, laughing, sleeping—what other responses are adequate to a life that is so indifferent?”
First published in 1985, The Chinese Art of Tea is an exploration into the history of tea and the Chinese art of tea, known as ch’a-shu. The book begins by delving into the history and legends surrounding tea before moving on to a study of the Emperor Hui Tsung’s treatise on tea and approaches to tea during the Ming Dynasty. It discusses tea gardens, teahouses, the relationship between tea and ceramics, and the connection between tea and health. The book also features a detailed manual for practising the art of drinking tea, including advice for choosing tea, buying tea, different types of infusion and drinking vessels, and the attitude required for obtaining the fullest satisfaction from tea. The Chinese Art of Tea is ideal for anyone with an interest in the history and art of drinking tea, and the social and cultural history of China.
This innovative study presents a genealogy of modern comparative law, examining both theory and practice around the world.