(Mis)reading masquerades
By: edited by Frédérique Bergholtz, Iberia Pérez ; produced by If I Can't Dance, I Don't Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution in collaboration with Dutch Art Institute, Piet Zwart Institute, Van Abbemuseum
Contributors: Perez, Iberia; If I Can't Dance, I Don't Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution (Organization); Dutch Art Institute; Piet Zwart Instituut; Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum
Publisher: Revolver
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Berlin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 512
ISBN-13: 9783868950717
Subjects: Culture; Masquerades; Psychological aspects; Social aspects; Performance; Masks; Arts and society
Other titles: Misreading masquerades
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introductions --; title: Readers as producers of meaning  -- Iberia Pérez; title: Masquerade workshop, Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam  -- Lars Bang Larsen; title: Immaterial labour and Zombi : towards an exacerbation of contemporary culture  -- Lars Bang Larsen; title: Mimetic powers : modernity and its double : art, theatre, anthropology  -- Yann Chateigné Tytelman; title: Reading (through) the mask : philosophical questions on the masquerade  -- Steven ten Thije; title: Feminism/Gender : introduction by  -- Frédérique Bergholtz; title: Excerpt from : Womanliness as masquerade  -- Joan Riviere; title: Lacan, Riviere, and the strategies of masquerade  -- Judith Butler; title: Gender and performance art  -- Beatriz Preciado; title: Gesture : introduction by  -- Hadley & Maxwell with Vanessa Ohlraun; title: Notes on gesture  -- Giorgio Agamben; title: Poiesis makes perfect, notes on gesture (reprise)  -- Dieter Roelstraete; title: Carnivalesque : introduction by  -- Flora Lysen; title: Excerpt from : Popular-festive forms and images in Rabelais   -- Mikhail Bakhtin; title: Excerpt from : The politics and poetics of transgression -- Peter Stallybrass & Allon White.; title: Alternatives to the Ethnographic Gaze : introductions by  -- Alena Alexandrova / -- Martine Neddam; title: Excerpt from : Among the Hopi  -- Philippe-Alain Michaud; title: Les maitres fous  -- Jean Rouch; title: Authorship : introductions by  -- Cecilia Peláez Paladino / -- Martine Neddam; title: Excerpt from : The book of disquiet   -- Fernando Pessoa; title: Excerpt from : The task of the translator  -- Walter Benjamin; title: What is an author?  -- Michel Foucault; title: Madness : introduction by  -- Steven ten Thije; title: Excerpt from : Cogito and history of madness  -- Jacques Derrida; title: Excerpt from : This body this paper this fire  -- Michel Foucault; title: Dutch Art Institute contributions --; title: Hop house : public gesture : a workshop in Dublin  -- Stefanie Seibold; title: Face : introductions by  -- Marianne Flotron / -- Mounira Al Solh; title: Excerpt from : Year zero : faciality  -- Gilles Deleuze & Felix Guattari; title: Excerpt from : Crossing the face  -- Michael Taussig; title: Death masks : introduction by  -- Alena Alexandrova; title: Excerpt from : Sovereign body and sacred body  -- Giorgio Agamben; title: Flat death  -- Roland Barthes; title: Medusa as maker of images  -- Franc̜oise Frontisi-Ducroux; title: Mimesis/Mimicry : introduction by  -- Rebecca Sakoun; title: Of mimicry and man : the ambivalence of colonial discourse  -- Homi K. Bhabha; title: Excerpt from : From mimetic desire to monstrous double   -- René Girard; title: Alterity : introduction by  -- Wendelien Van Oldenborgh; title: Anthropophagic subjectivity  -- Suely Rolnik; title: Excerpt from : The fact of blackness  -- Frantz Fanon; title: Performativity/Performance : introduction by Yael Davids --; title: Failed live(r)s  -- Peggy Phelan; title: Postscript to "Failed live(r)s" -- Peggy Phelan.