On America will respond to the powerful presence in contemporary culture of aesthetic forms and political strategies derived from North America. Counterpointing Letters from Europe, this book will address the use and abuse of images of and from North America, the deconstruction in performance theory and practice of North American art, film and performance, and the presentation of America as genre and fiction.
On America will respond to the powerful presence in contemporary culture of aesthetic forms and political strategies derived from North Ameri...
Explores themes reflected in the overlap between performance, food and cookery. The book looks at food in performance and food as performance art, and the performative in cookery and its staging in the kitchen and at the table. Articles and artists' pages develop piquant analogies and correlations between the processes in cooking and performance making, and pay testament to the theatricality of food and speculate on food as a model for theatre: multi-sensory, processual and communal.
Explores themes reflected in the overlap between performance, food and cookery. The book looks at food in performance and food as performance art, and...
Exploring thirty years of work by The Centre for Performance Research (CPR), A Performance Cosmology explores the future challenges of performance and theatre through a diverse and fascinating series of interviews, testimonies and perspectives from leading international theatre practitioners and academics.
Contributors include: Philip Auslander, Rustom Bharucha, Tim Etchells, Jane Goodall, Guillermo Gomez-Pena, Jon Mckenzie, Claire MacDonald, Susan Melrose, Alphonso Lingis, Richard Schechner, Rebecca Schneider, Edward Scheer, and Freddie Rokem.
A Performance...
Exploring thirty years of work by The Centre for Performance Research (CPR), A Performance Cosmology explores the future challenges of per...
