Theatricality and Performativity

Writings on Texture from Plato's Cave to Urban Activism
Softcover Nachdruck of the original 1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-3-030-10337-8
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 286 Seiten, Previously published in hardcover, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 391 g

Reihe: Performance Philosophy

This book defines theatricality and performativity through metaphors of texture and weaving, drawn mainly from anthropologist Tim Ingold and philosopher Stephen C. Pepper. Tracing the two concepts’ various relations to practices of seeing and doing, but also to conflicting values of novelty and normativity, the study proceeds in a series of intertwining threads, from the theatrical to the performative: Antitheatrical (Plato, the Baroque, Michael Fried); Pro-theatrical (directors Wagner, Fuchs, Meyerhold, Brecht, and Brook); Dramatic (weaving memory in Shaffer’s Amadeus and Beckett’s Footfalls); Efficient (from modernist “machines for living in” to the “smart home”); Activist (knit graffiti, clown patrols, and the Anthropo(s)cene). An approach is developed in which ‘performativity’ names the way we tacitly weave worlds and identities, variously concealed or clarified by the step-aside tactics of ‘theatricality’.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Paavolainen, Teemu

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ästhetik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: Theatrical Metaphors, Textile Philosophies.- 2. Emptiness and Excess: The Cave, the Colonnade, and the Cube.- 3. Directorial Perspectives: The Image, the Platform, the Tightrope.- 4. “Revolving It All”: Weaves of Memory in Amadeus and Footfalls.- 5. Smart Homes and Dwelling Machines: Function, Ornament, and Cognition.- 6. Protest in Colour and Concrete: Theatrical Textures in the Urban Fabric.- 7. Knots and Loose Ends: Cycles of Change, Metaphors of Range.

Über Autor(innen)

Teemu Paavolainen is Research Fellow in Theatre and Performance at the University of Tampere, Finland. His Theatre/Ecology/Cognition: Theorizing Performer-Object Interaction in Grotowski, Kantor, and Meyerhold was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2012. His articles have appeared in Performance Philosophy, Theatre Symposium, Nordic Theatre Studies, and The Cognitive Humanities (2016).