Description
Performed Imaginaries
Author: Schechner Richard
Language: EnglishKeywords
gob; squad; performance; studies; allan; kaprow; elevator; repair; service; forced; Gob Squad; Saint Francis College; Vagus Nerve Stimulation; World War III; Rimini Protokoll; Ivory Coast; Campbell’s Soup Cans; Occupy Wall Street; Vice Versa; Performance Studies Department; Allan Kaprow; Performance Studies; Elevator Repair Service; Schneemann; Superb; Good Life; Carnal Art; Avant Garde Art; Free Southern Theater; Richard Schechner; Wooster Group; Georges Braque; Entoptic Phenomena; Ohno Kazuo; Durga Temple
Publication date: 11-2014
· 15.6x23.4 cm · Paperback
Publication date: 11-2014
· 15.6x23.4 cm · Hardback
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In this collection of essays, performance studies scholar and artist Richard Schechner brings his unique perspective to bear upon some of the key themes of society in the 21st century.
Schechner connects the avantgarde and terror, the counter-cultural movement of the 1960s/70s and the Occupy movement; self-wounding art, popular culture, and ritual; the Ramlila cycle play of India and the way imagination structures reality; the corporate world and conservative artists. Schechner asks artists to redeploy Nehru's Third World as a movement not of nations but of like-minded culture workers who must propose counter-performances to war, violence, and the globalized corporate empire.
With characteristic brio, Schechner urges us to play for keeps. "Playing deeply is a way of finding and embodying new knowledge", he writes.
Performed Imaginaries ranges through some of the key moves within Schechner?s oeuvre, and challenges today?s experimental artists, activists, and scholars to generate a new, third world of performance.
A (New) Third World of Performance
The Conservative Avantgarde
The 60s, TDR, and Performance Studies (interview)
9/11 as a Work of Art?
Performed Imaginaries
Points of Contact Revisited
Self-Inflicted Wounds