Intermedial Performance and Politics in the Public Sphere

Katia Arfara, Aneta Mancewicz, Ralf Remshardt, Katia Arfara, Aneta Mancewicz, Ralf Remshardt

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2018
• ISBN:
  9783319753430
• Topic: Media & Performing Arts
• Subtopic: Theatre

This volume is a collection of scholarly articles and interviews with intermedial artists working with the concepts of public sphere at the intersection of aesthetics and politics. It explores the response of socially-engaged artistic practices to the current crisis in politics and media. It also critically examines urgent issues such as rampant nationalism and populism, expanding neoliberalism, the refugee crisis, growing inosculations of corporate and cyber culture, and the ongoing geopolitical changes in the Middle East. Can intermedial performances reflect the present artistic and political dilemmas in Europe and beyond?
The collection provides theoretical frameworks that interrogate the role that spectators as citizens can play in our mediatized world while focusing on the functions of immersion, participation, and civic engagement in contemporary performance and society. The collection provides analyses by international scholars from Europe, Asia, and the USA, covering global performance created in the twenty-first century. It also introduces interviews with internationally acclaimed intermedial artists and companies such as BERLIN, Rimini Protokoll, Dries Verhoeven, Akira Takayama, and Kris Verdonck.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Front Matter
• 1. Introduction: In and Out: Intermedial Practices in the New Public Sphere
• 2. Intermedial Theatre in a Mediatized Culture and Society
• 3. Intermedial Performance as a Public Sphere
• 4. Mirrors of Public Space: An Interview with Dries Verhoeven
• 5. Democracy with a Toothbrush: Protest, Performance, and the Public Sphere
• 6. Refugee Theatre in the (Inter)medial Matrix: Die Schutzbefohlenen and the Limits of Theatre as Public Sphere
• 7. ‘Heterotopian Transformations’: An Interview with Akira Takayama
• 8. Troubled Feedback Loop: The Rise and Fall of Estonia by Theatre NO99
• 9. Between Art, Society, Representation, and Subjectivity: Wojtek Ziemilski’s Prolog
• 10. ‘The Intimacy of Public Space’: An Interview with Kris Verdonck
• 11. Empire Strikes Back: The 2014 Maidan Revolution in Ukraine, Postmodern Spectatorship, and the Battle of Perception in the Public Sphere
• 12. The Politics of the Digital Public Sphere: On Rabih Mroué’s The Pixelated Revolution
• 13. ‘Almost Like a Teaching Play’: Daniel Wetzel/Rimini Protokoll in a Conversation with Florian Malzacher
• 14. Re-Materialising the Theatrical Public Sphere Through Intermediality in Grass Stage’s World Factory
• 15. Intermediating Immanence: On Ho Tzu Nyen’s Ten Thousand Tigers
• 16. ‘Reality is the Best Scenario’: An Interview with BERLIN
• Back Matter