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Staging Process: The Aesthetic Politics of Collective Performance
By (author) Rachel Anderson-Rabern
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Staging Process examines contemporary collective creation practices, with particular focus on the work of four ""third wave"" American performance ensembles: Goat Island, Elevator Repair Service, Nature Theater of Oklahoma, and the TEAM. The book examines ways in which these groups create blueprints for developing collaborative performance, arguing that for these groups methodology entwines with emerging performance aesthetics. Rachel Anderson-Rabern examines the ideas of boredom and everyday employment that permeate particular performance projects. Using Henri Lefebvre's concepts of work roles within everyday philosophy, she demonstrates that collective creation gives rise to new economies of performance. The book also presents theories of the political stakes of danced gestural forms in performance, informed by Giorgio Agamben's writings on gesture. Anderson-Rabern analyzes group creativity as topological and presents examples of groups that structurally unhinge themselves while retaining their collective identity. The book also elaborates the ways in which these ensembles make use of durational performance to posit ethical frameworks: ways of living in the world. Conversing with the ideas of Paul Virilio and Guy Debord among others, the book claims that these groups posit new models of aesthetic politics through careful, speed-based investigations of construction and destruction. These investigations unearth the powerful potential of contemporary collaborative methods to be at once aesthetically minded, ethically driven, and politically engaged.
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Publisher | Northwestern University Press
Published date | 28 Feb 2020
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Format | Hardback
Pages | 176
Dimensions | 231 x 154 x 22mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 400g
ISBN | 978-0-8101-4146-9
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BISAC | performing arts / theater / general
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