Performativity and Event in 1960s Japan [electronic resource] : City, Body, Memory /
Eckersall, P.author.
Performativity and Event in 1960s Japan considers the artists and events in 1960s Japan. In response to the social upheavals of the 1960s, it shows how art interacted with society in unique and transformational ways, nterweaving arguments about the critical role of performance as an artistic medium and as a social dramaturgy.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Zero Jigen's pre-expressive utopian body: ritual theory and urban transformation -- Butoh Cine dance and the remediated sixties -- Singing yokoo tadanori: IchiyanagiToshi, the city and the aesthetics of listening -- Performing revolution at Shinjuku Plaza -- The Osaka exposition: bodies and the impossible utopia -- Memory and city: Port B and the Tokyo Olympics -- Closing: transforming everydayness.
Performativity and Event in 1960s Japan considers the artists and events in 1960s Japan. In response to the social upheavals of the 1960s, it shows how art interacted with society in unique and transformational ways, nterweaving arguments about the critical role of performance as an artistic medium and as a social dramaturgy.
Ethnology—Asia.
Theater.
Theater—History.
Performing arts.
Civilization—History.
Cultural studies.
Asian Culture.
Theatre and Performance Studies.
Theatre History.
Performing Arts.
Cultural History.
Cultural Studies.