Performance and the contemporary city : An interdisciplinary reader
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Titre
Performance and the contemporary city : An interdisciplinary reader
Sujet
, représentations, littérature, culture, identité, société urbaine, promenade urbaine, Whybrow Nicolas
Description
Abstract from the publisher :
Cities, with their rising populations and complex configurations, have become key symbols of a fast-changing modernity. This timely collection gathers together various urban writings from a range of relevant disciplines, including architecture, geography, sociology, visual art, ethnography and psychoanalysis. Its focus, however, is performance. Underscoring the importance of the field, it shows how performance functions as a dynamic, interdisciplinary mechanism which is central not only to understanding the multiplicity of urban living but also to the way the identities of cities are shaped.
Gathering together key writings on the city and performance by authors ranging from Walter Benjamin to Tim Etchells to Carl Lavery, the reader can be navigated in any number of ways. Supported by extensive introductory material, it will be essential and evocative reading for anyone interested in making connections between performance and urban life.
Contents :
Preamble
Introduction
PART I: WALKING/THEATRES
Introduction
How Scratched Car Revealed the Price of a Peasant's Life - J. Watts Naples; W. Benjamin and A. Lacis
Eight Fragments on Theatre and the City - T. Etchells
Sleepwalking in the Modern City: Walter Benjamin and Sigmund Freud in the World of Dreams - S. Pile
Moving in the Cityscape: Performance and the Embodied Experience of the Flâneur - P. Küppers
A Manifesto for a New Walking Culture: 'Dealing with the City' - Wrights and Sites
PART II: DRIFTING/THINGS
Introduction
Situationism - C.Lavery
'The Map is not the Territory': The Unfinished Journey of the Situationist International - A. Hussey
'The Accident of Where I Live' - Journeys on the Caledonian Road - R. Wentworth
'How Long I 'Been On?': Marc Dion's Performative Archaeology of the City - A. Coles
What a Carry On - L. Gardner
Nosing Around: A Singapore Scent Trail - P. Rae with L. K. Hong
PART III: SOUNDING/RHYTHMS
Introduction
The Pepys of London E11: Graeme Miller and the Politics of Linked - C. Lavery
Wandering and Wondering: Following Janet Cardiff's Missing Voice - S. Gorman
Attempt at Rhythmanalysis of Mediterranean Cities - H. Lefebvre and C. Régulier
Rumours: A Conversation Between Francis Alÿs and James Lingwood (extract)
PART IV: PLAYING/PLACE
Introduction
Graffiti - S. J. Smith
Skating on Thin Eyes: the First Walk (extract) - I. Sinclair
The Policing of the Artist - M. Bunting
Horror Vacui - U. Hofbauer and F. Derschmidt
Radioballet - LIGNA
Circle Line Party - Space Hijackers
Paris Plage - B. Delanoë
An Explosion of Delight - G. Dyer
Non-places - M. Augé
All the World's a Car Park - J. Winter
By Way of a Conclusion: One Place After Another (extract) - M. Kwon
Performing the City: Kyrysztof Wodiczko - N. Kaye
PART V: VISIONING/FLOWS
Introduction
The Right to Participate in the Work of the Imagination - A. Appadurai
Zero Tolerance, Maximum Surveillance?: Deviance, Difference and Crime Control in the Late Modern City - N. Fyfe
A Nigger in Cyberspace - K. Piper
Cyborg City - J. Harkin
25 Instructions for Performance in Cities - C. Lavery
Nicolas Whybrow is Associate Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies at the University of Warwick, UK.
