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Contemporary Performance and Political Economy - Katerina Paramana

Contemporary Performance and Political Economy

Oikonomia as a New Ethico-Political Paradigm
Buch | Hardcover
224 Seiten
2025
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978-1-032-37365-2 (ISBN)
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This book examines haunting concepts, relations, and artworks that demand our attention. Its premise is that, under capitalism, political and ethical considerations are subordinated to economic ones, and this subordination creates ghost worlds.
Contemporary Performance and Political Economy examines haunting concepts, relations, and artworks that demand our attention. Under capitalism, political and ethical considerations are subordinated to economic ones, and this subordination creates ghost worlds. Performance works, however, can offer insights into alternative politico-economic models.

In this major contribution to the fields of contemporary performance and political economy, Katerina Paramana proposes that the investigation of performance works as economies can make the insights performance works offer visible. She positions the examination in relation to contemporary critiques of capitalism, neo-feudalism, and their by-products, and proposes and develops the notion of ‘oikonomia’ as a means to theorise artworks which, through their house (oikos) rules (nomoi), propose ethico-political challenges to the economies in which they are embedded. For this, Paramana looks at politically positioned performance works created and presented in Cuba, Europe, Mexico, UK, and US. Her interest is in the politics, ethics, and effects of these works’ ‘house rules’, and the insights they offer to the reconceptualization of political economy. Ultimately, this book aims to transform our understanding of economy’s purpose. It contributes to the development of a new ethico-political paradigm upon which a reconceptualization of political economy can be based. This inspiring study seeks to keep the fire for change alive by demonstrating that political economies, much like performances, are experiments which can be changed.

This work will be of great interest to students and scholars in Performance Studies, Theatre, Visual Cultures, Politics, Cultural Studies, Dance and Visual Arts, and Critical Theorists.

Katerina Paramana is Senior Lecturer in Theatre and Performance at Brunel University London, UK.

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Oikonomia as a New Ethico-Political Paradigm

Chapter 1

Constructing Spaces of Decision, Affect, and Creative Possibility: Jérôme Bel’s Economies and Encounters

Chapter 2

Failing Resistances and Neoliberal Subjects: Individual and Collective Experiments Towards Alternative Politico-Economic Models in Tino Sehgal’s These Associations

Chapter 3

The Animation of Contemporary Subjectivity: Tino Sehgal’s Ann Lee

Chapter 4

Capitalist and Ethical Critiques: Santiago Sierra’s Ghosts and Relentless Mirror

Chapter 5

The Oscillation of Contemporary Bodies Between Biopolitics and Necropolitics: Tania Bruguera’s Wrestling with Power Structures

Chapter 7

Conclusion: Replacing Experiments, Re-Writing Fictions

Bibliography

Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag 18.2.2025
Reihe/Serie Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
Zusatzinfo 10 Halftones, black and white; 10 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Theater / Ballett
ISBN-10 1-032-37365-2 / 1032373652
ISBN-13 978-1-032-37365-2 / 9781032373652
Zustand Neuware
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