Aleksandar Sasha Dundjerovic, María José Martínez Sánchez

Placeness and the Performative Production of Space (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

How can performance create and transform places of urban renewal and regeneration? What does performance contribute to the creation of community? These are some of the questions addressed in this study of the relationship of performance to urban space. Marrying theory with a series of international case studies of performance practice and interviews with practitioners, this interdisciplinary study examines how space is performatively produced to create a sense of 'placeness'. Offering multiple perspectives on space and place, this book investigates the connections between space and the construction of social and cultural narratives. It focuses on the multiple ways performative actions produce space, including theatre, installations, site-specific work, visual arts and digital performance. Combining interdisciplinary approaches to contemporary performance, architecture and digital media studies, this study builds on a clear theoretical framework that draws on the work of Walter Benjamin, Michel Foucault, Henri Lefevre, Richard Schechner, Hans-Thies Lehmann, Lev Manovich and Slavoj Zizek. It offers themed sections comprising theory, studies of practice and interviews with practitioners. Case studies include site-specific work by Catalan collective La Fura Dels Baus, Barcelona, Spain, the Prague Quadrennial, community engagement in Praça Roosevelt in Sao Paulo, Brazil, the Portland Inn Project in Stoke-on-Trent, UK, Campo de la Cebada in Madrid, Spain, and digital spaces created by artists in India and Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. September 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350349827
• Artikelnr.: 72248290

Autorenporträt

Aleksandar Sasha Dundjerovic is Professor of Performing Arts at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire., Birmingham City University, UK . He is a theatre academic and professional award winning theatre director with international experience working in Serbia, Hungary, Ireland, Canada, Colombia, Russia , Iran and Brazil. He holds a PhD in Theatre Studies from Royal Holloway University of London. His teaching includes University of London (Royal Holloway), Brunel University, University of Manchester, University College Cork (Ireland), University of São Paulo (Brazil), and University of Belgrade (Serbia). He is a published author of number of books and academic articles on contemporary theatre making and cultural production, particularly on the work of Robert Lepage and Brazilian collaborative and performance practices. His forthcoming book Live Digital Theatre: Performance Pedagogies is published by Routledge (January 2023) He is Founder and Artistic Director of Kolectiv Theatre UK. Aleksandar is a Principal Fellow of Higher Education Academy and RSA Fellow.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Plates
Acknowledgements
Foreword, Javier Ruiz Sánchez (Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain)
Introduction: From Place to Placeness
Chapter 1. The Performative Origins of Civitas
Palimpsest and the Urban Realm
Policy-making and Place-making
Civic Identities
Urban Curating and Public Spaces
Interviews
Sodja Lotker / Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design (Prague Czech
Republic)
Jenny Peevers / Re: connections (Birmingham. UK)
Chapter 2. Spatial Dramaturgy
Space and Narratives
Genius Loci
Embodying Placeness as a Performative Event
Space for Storytelling
Site - Street Theatre
Interviews
Group theatre La Fura dels Baus (Barcelona, Spain)
Rodolfo Garcia Vazquez (Os Satyros, Sao Paulo, Brazil)
Chapter 3. Placemaking and Performative Urban Pedagogies
Spatial Justice and Social Sustainability in Performative Placemaking
Communities and the Process of Making a Place
Placeness for Collective Memories
Performative Urban Practices as a Pedagogical Tool: the RSVP Cycles
Interviews
Collective Zuloark/ El mercado de la Cebada (Madrid, Spain)
Anna Francis/ The Portland Inn project (Stoke-on-Trent, UK)
Chapter 4. Digital Placeness
Placeness and Social Media
The Matrix and Duality of Digital Space
Digital Production of Performance Space
Digital Practices
Digital Space as Artificial Inelegance
Interviews
Sumit La Roy . The Art of Facing Fear (Kolkata, India).
Vladimir Vlacina. I Remember (Prijedor, Bosnia I Herzegovina)
Conclusion: Post Placeness
Bibliography
Index