Theatrical fields
Subtitle: critical strategies in performance, film, and video
By: edited by Ute Meta Bauer and Anca Rujoiu
Contributors: NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore; Umeå universitet. Bildmuseet
Publisher: NTU Centre of Contemporary Art; Bildmuseet; Koenig Books
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Singapore; Umeå; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 206
ISBN-13: 9783863359232
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Theater in art; Exhibitions; Performance art; Themes, motives; Motion pictures; Plots, themes; Video art
Description: Theatrical Fields: Critical Strategies in Performance, Film, and Video" brings together a selection of seminal texts, commisioned essays and exhibition materials that explore the political potential of "theatricality". The reader stems from a long-term curatorial research examining the deep-rooted connection between theatre and theory juxtaposing artists and theoreticians from different generations and backgrounds who share a communal interest in the "theatricality" as a methodology to address questions of ideology, gender, power and resistance. In this conception, "theatricality" does not refer strictly only to the theatre and the theatrical arts; rather, it also points to the constructedness of everyday life. Theatrical forms make visible how our realities are staged, and also how our histories are constructed and performed.
Notes: Published on the occasion of the exhibition held at Bildmuseet, Umeå, September 29, 2013-January 5, 2014 and at NTU CCA Singapore, August 22-November 2, 2014.

Includes texts by: Antonin Artaud, Mikhail Bakhtin, Ute Meta Bauer, Bertolt Brecht, Giuliana Bruno, Jacques Derrida, Régis Durand, Josette Féral, Jean-Franc̦ois Lyotard, Eva Meyer, Timothy Murray, Katharina Sykora and Marina Warner.

Artists inlcuded: Judith Barry, Stan Douglas, Marcel Dzama, Marie-Louise Ekman, Joan Jonas, Isaac Julien, Eva Meyer and Eran Schaerf, Ulrike Ottinger and Constanze Ruhm.

Includes bibliographical references.