Theatricality and Performativity

Writings on Texture from Plato’s Cave to Urban Activism

Teemu Paavolainen (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

XIII, 286 Seiten

2019 | 1. Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-030-10337-8 (ISBN)

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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'.

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).

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.

Erscheinungsdatum	04.02.2019
Reihe/Serie	Performance Philosophy
Zusatzinfo	XIII, 286 p. 7 illus.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	394 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
Schlagworte	Aesthetics • Cognitive ecology • Metaphor • Performance Philosophy • Theatricality
ISBN-10	3-030-10337-4 / 3030103374
ISBN-13	978-3-030-10337-8 / 9783030103378
Zustand	Neuware