Investigates critical approaches to performance, ultimately aiming to stimulate new discussion between theorists and practitioners.
A typeface narrative revolving around an I, a pair of ravenous eyes, a mouth, and a peptic ulcer called O.
It is to the future that we look for redemption and progress; but it is also where we project our personal and apocalyptic anxieties. By questioning notions of certainty, truth, and totality, Augé finds ways to separate the future from our eternal, terrified present and liberates the mind to allow it to conceptualize our possible futures afresh.
Examines the construct of memory, the passage of time, and the “end of history.”
Illuminates the relationship between philosophy and experimental choreographic practice today in the works of leading European choreographers.
Embraces the messiness and daily action of the maternal and strives to nurture an understanding of daily maternal practice.
Analyzes artistic performances, social performances, archival remains, and memoirs of the underground theater scene in 1960s New York.
Explores sites where the ideal of community relentlessly recurs, from debates over art and culture in the popular media, to the discourses and practices of nonprofit and nongovernmental organizations, to contemporary narratives of economic transformation or “globalization.”
This provocative book meets the supposedly ‘live’ practices of performance and the ‘no-longer-live’ historical past at their own dangerous crossroads. Focussing on the ‘and’ of the title, it addresses the tangled relations between the terms, practices, ideas, and aims embedded in these compatriot – but often oppositional – arts and acts of time.
The publication explores art created in public spaces in Brazil, since 2000. In Portuguese and English. Published under the Creative Commons licence.