The work of acclaimed German artist Christoph Schlingensief spans three decades and a diverse range of fields, including, film, television, activism, opera, and theatre. "Christoph Schlingensief: Art Without Borders" is the first book to be published in English on Schlingensief s groundbreaking, politically engaged body of work. Leading scholars in the field offer a critical assessment of Schlingensief s hybrid practice, and an interview with Schlingensief himself provides the reader with insight into past and present projects. The book will be an essential resource for artists, curators,...
The work of acclaimed German artist Christoph Schlingensief spans three decades and a diverse range of fields, including, film, television, activis...
This is the first book to focus specifically on the late all-round German artist Christoph Schlingensief's theatre work, which subversively merges art, politics and everyday life to imbue his productions both inside and outside the theatre with a re-energized concept of the political in art. The book proposes the pluralistic concept of the phantasmagoria as a means to decoding Schlingensief's unique theatrical vision and examines how it achieves its political radicality, yet retains a critical ambivalence in regard to an explicitly political intention.
Scheer traces Schlingensief's...
This is the first book to focus specifically on the late all-round German artist Christoph Schlingensief's theatre work, which subversively merges ...