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Awkwardness
Artist/Author: Adam Kotsko | Reference: P3251 | ISBN: 978-1-84694-391-1 | Type: Publication

Argues that the awkwardness of our age is a key to understanding human experience.

comedy cultural theory Curb Your Enthusiasm film humour irony Judd Apatow Larry David Ricky Gervais The Office theory TV

Towards an embodied poetics of failure
Artist/Author: Christel Stalpaert | Editor: Ric Allsopp and Kristen Kreider | Reference: A0723 | Type: Article

Exploration of violence and trauma in needcompany’s Marketplace 76.

aesthetic Aristotle catastrophe criticism cultural memory failure Jan Lauwers loss memory performance art Poetics politics postdramatic sadness theatre theory trauma

Enmeshed bodies, impossible touch: the object-oriented world of Pina Bausch’s Café Müller
Artist/Author: João Florêncio | Editor: Richard Allen and Shaun May | Reference: A0726 | Type: Article

The addresses the nonhuman bodies of Café Müller and claim that Bausch’s piece resonates with the work of contemporary philosopher Graham Harman, in that it tries to go beyond human exceptionalism to present a world where all bodies, regardless of their perceived nature, are simultaneously tightly enmeshed together and inaccessible to one another.

alienation body choreography criticism dance ecology gender nonhuman Opernhaus Wuppertal postmodernism power scenography set design Tanztheater Wuppertal theory violence

Towards a Poiesis of Critical Practice: 1000th LIVE and the politics of appearance
Artist/Author: Diana Damian Martin | Editor: Ric Allsopp and Kristen Kreider | Reference: A0724 | Type: Article

On the process and politics of live critical responses to a live stream of Forced Entertainment’s And on a Thousandth Night.

action aestheticity criticism Culturegest digital dissensus Erika Fischer-Lichte gesture Hannah Arendt Jacques Rancière judgement Lisbon memory performance political event Portugal theatre theory

Creating by Annotating: The director’s notebooks of Jan Fabre and Jan Lauwers
Artist/Author: Timmy De Laet, Edith Cassiers & Luk Van Den Dries | Reference: A0717 | Type: Article

Reversing the common understanding of annotation as a posterior act of adding information to already existing sources, this article argues that annotation also serves as a pre-performance procedure facilitating artistic creation.

artistic process Bernard Stiegler body criticism directing documentation movement performance postdramatic theatre text theatre theory

The Regenerative Ruination of Romeo Castellucci
Artist/Author: Timmy De Laet and Edith Cassiers | Reference: A0722 | Type: Article

This article proposes an expanded understanding of Romeo Castellucci's radical performance work as a genuine theatre of ruins.

aesthetics artistic process criticism destruction directing Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio theatre theory via negativa

Staging an Exilic Autobiography: On the pleasures and frustrations of repetitions and returns
Artist/Author: Natasha Davis and Yana Meerzon | Reference: A0718 | Type: Article

Expanding on the ideas of double wound (Caruth) and nostalgia (Aciman), this article discusses Davis' poetic autobiographic performances as examples of the terror and relief of repeating exilic pain.

autobiography cultural identity exile history identity nostalgia performance art politics repetition self-history theory trauma war

Does it Work?: The Æffect of Activist Art
Artist/Author: Stephen Duncombe | Reference: A0713 | Type: Article

Starting with the questions: Does it Work? and How Can We Know? this article explores the effect and affect, or affect, of activist art.

activism Æffect Æfficacy change community criticism cultural change cultural shift dialogue disruption experimental Hans Haacke Harold Lasswell hegemony intervention participation place politics protest space theory

What’s the Use?: Constellations of Art, History and Knowledge - A Critical Reader
Editor: Jorinde Seijdel, Steven Ten Thije, Nick Aikens, Thomas Lange | Reference: P3163 | ISBN: 978-9492095121 | Type: Publication

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Takes as a starting point the premise that art is best understood in dialogue with the social sphere, and examines how the exchange between art, knowledge and use has historically been set up and played out.

Adrian Rifkin aesthetics affect Alexandra Pirici Alistair Hudson Annie Fletcher body Catarina Simão Charles Esche Christina Aushana Christina Clausen constructLab contemporary art criticism Cuba cultural memory economy Emily Pethick engaged art Garden City George Yúdice Georges Didi-Huberman history How & for Whom Jean-Luc Godard Jeanne van Heeswijk Jesús Carrillo Castillo John Byrne John Ruskin labour Lara García Díaz Laurie Jo Reynolds Li Mu Liam Gillick Lucía Sanromán Manuel Borja-Villel Manuel Pelmuş Melinda Guillen Mozambique Nick Aikens politics Sara Stehr Schlingensief Stephen Wright Steven ten Thije Subtramas Tamara Díaz Bringas Tania Bruguera theory Thomas Lange time Trevor Paglen value Wendelien van Oldenborgh Yael Bartana Zdenka Badovinac

Catalogue - Venice International Performance Art Week 2014: Ritual Body - Political Body
Editor: VestAndPage | Reference: P3160 | Type: Publication

Festival catalogue.

Adina Bar-On Adrian Stimson Âhasiw Maskêgon-Iskwêw Alain Arias-Misson Alastair MacLennan Alice Vogler Allen Ginsberg Andrea Hackl Andrigo & Aliprandi Angel Delgado arhive Art Week Fringe Arti Grabowski artistic practice Artur Barrio Barbara Campbell Bean Benjamin Sebastian Bob Raymond body Boris Nieslony Carolee Schneemann Chris Burden Clemente Padin contemporary art criticism David Dalla Venezia documentation El Siluetazo Elias Adasme Enrique Ježik Gastão de Magalhães Gerhard Dirmoser Gerry Schum Gianni-Emilio Simonetti Gina Pane Guillermo Giampietro hybrid Inder Salim Jelili Atiku Jill McDermid Joseph Beuys Juan Loyola Julie Vulcan La Pocha Nostra Legend Lin Dance Theatre Letícia Parente live art Marilyn Arsem Martin Renteria Melissa García Aguirre Norbert Klassen Norma Flores Olivier de Sagazan Paul Wong Paulo Bruscky Pedro Reyes performance art poiesis Regina José Galindo research Richard Ashrowan Rong Rong Rosemberg Sandoval S. J. Norman Sandra Johnston Shannon Cochrane Sigalit Landau Tania Bruguera Tehching Hsieh Terry Fox Terry Smith theory Ulay Vela Phelan VestAndPage Vito Acconci Waldemar Januszczak Waldo Bien Wen Yau Zai Kuning Zhang Huan

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