Format:
173 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
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15.5 x 22.5 cm
ISBN:
9783895814433
Series Statement:
Performing urgency #4
Content:
During its impressive career over the last decades the term ‘performative’ has been attributed with many parallel meanings in the humanities, philosophy, arts, or economics. Empty Stages, Crowded Flats applies the notion of the performative to the context of curating with the aim to unfold a potential that so far has been mostly unused. The book is following J. L. Austin, Judith Butler, and others in their belief in the performative capacity to transform reality with words and other cultural utterances, but it also emphasises the often dismissed, colloquial notion of the performative as something being ‘theatre-like’, believing that those two strands are in fact interdependent and intertwined. Empty Stages, Crowded Flats investigates an array of staged situations, from choreographed exhibitions, immaterial museums, theatres of negotiation, and discursive marathons, to street carnivals and subversive public-art projects, and asks how ‘theatre-like’ strategies and techniques can in fact enable ‘reality making’ situations in art, and how, as a consequence, curating itself becomes staged, dramatised, choreographed, and composed.
Language:
English
Subjects:
General works
Keywords:
Museum
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Ausstellung
;
Aufführung
;
Performance
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Wood, Catherine 1973-
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
Author information:
Warsza, Joanna 1976-
Author information:
Malzacher, Florian 1970-
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