Performance and the Contemporary City: An Interdisciplinary Reader

ISBN-13: 9780230527201 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 240 str.

Nicolas Whybrow

Opis

Whybrow's interdisciplinarycollection of urban writingsdemonstrates how performance is 'at work' in the city. His selectionhighlights both diversity and thepotential for interaction, drawing attention to the possible identities produced by themulti-faceted nature ofthemodern metropolis. "

Spis treści

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Note Preamble Introduction PART I: WALKING/THEATRES Introduction How Scratched Car Revealed the Price of a Peasant's Life; J.Watts Naples; W.Benjamin and A.Lacis Eight Fragments on Theatre and the City; T.Etchells Sleepwalking in the Modern City: Walter Benjamin and Sigmund Freud in the World of Dreams; S.Pile Moving in the Cityscape: Performance and the Embodied Experience of the Flâneur; P.Küppers A Manifesto for a New Walking Culture: 'Dealing with the City'; Wrights and Sites PART II: DRIFTING/THINGS Introduction Situationism; C.Lavery 'The Map is not the Territory': The Unfinished Journey of the Situationist International; A.Hussey 'The Accident of Where I Live' Journeys on the Caledonian Road; R.Wentworth 'How Long I 'Been On?': Marc Dion's Performative Archaeology of the City; A.Coles What a Carry On; L.Gardner Nosing Around: A Singapore Scent Trail; P.Rae with L.K.Hong PART III: SOUNDING/RHYTHMS Introduction The Pepys of London E11: Graeme Miller and the Politics of Linked; C.Lavery Wandering and Wondering: Following Janet Cardiff's Missing Voice; S. Gorman Attempt at Rhythmanalysis of Mediterranean Cities; H.Lefebvre and C.Régulier Rumours: A Conversation Between Francis Alÿs and James Lingwood (extract) PART IV: PLAYING/PLACE Introduction Graffiti; S.J.Smith Skating on Thin Eyes: the First Walk (extract); I.Sinclair The Policing of the Artist; M.Bunting Horror Vacui; U.Hofbauer and F.Derschmidt Radioballet; LIGNA Circle Line Party; Space Hijackers Paris Plage; B.Delanoë An Explosion of Delight; G.Dyer Non-places; M.Augé All the World's a Car Park; J.Winter By Way of a Conclusion: One Place After Another (extract); M.Kwon Performing the City: Kyrysztof Wodiczko; N.Kaye PART V: VISIONING/FLOWS   Introduction The Right to Participate in the Work of the Imagination; A.Appadurai Zero Tolerance, Maximum Surveillance?: Deviance, Difference and Crime Control in the Late Modern City; N.Fyfe A Nigger in Cyberspace; K.Piper Cyborg City; J.Harkin 25 Instructions for Performance in Cities; C.Lavery Bibliography Index.

O autorze

NICOLAS WHYBROW is Associate Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies at the University of Warwick, UK. He is the author of Street Scenes, linking Brechtian and Benjaminian ideas to an experience of contemporary Berlin, and Art and the City (I.B.Tauris, 2009).

Blurb

Cities, with their rising populations and complex configurations, have become key symbols of a fast-changing modernity. This timely collection gathers together various urban writings from a range of relevant disciplines, including architecture, geography, sociology, visual art, ethnography and psychoanalysis. Its focus, however, is performance. Underscoring the importance of the field, it shows how performance functions as a dynamic, interdisciplinary mechanism which is central not only to understanding the multiplicity of urban living but also to the way the identities of cities are shaped.

Gathering together key writings on the city and performance by authors ranging from Walter Benjamin to Tim Etchells to Carl Lavery, the reader can be navigated in any number of ways. Supported by extensive introductory material, it will be essential and evocative reading for anyone interested in making connections between performance and urban life.