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 ...
