Performance on the edge : transformations of culture
Editorial BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING
España peninsular
- Editorial BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING
- ISBN13 9780826457790
- ISBN10 0826457797
- Tipo LIBRO
- Páginas 285
- Año de Edición 2000
- Idioma Inglés
- Encuadernación Rústica
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Artes EscénicasPerformance on the edge : transformations of culture
Editorial BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING
España peninsular
Detalles del libro
Performance on the Edge takes the reader on a journey across geographical borders and conceptual boundaries in order to map out the new territory of contemporary theatre, dance, media arts and activism. Working across social, cultural and political fault lines, the book explores performance as both process and contact, as the commitment to political activism and the reconstruction of community, as site-specific intervention into the social and technological structures of abandonment, and as the highly charged embodiment of erotic fantasies.
Performance on the Edge addresses the politics of community-oriented and reconstructive artmaking in an era marked by the AIDS crisis, cultural and racial polarization, warfare separatism and xenophobia. Provocatively illustrated with work from North and Central America, and Eastern and Western Europe, the book challenges our assumptions about the relations between media and activism, technological imperatives and social processes and bodily identities and virtual communities.