Intermedial Performance and Politics in the Public Sphere

Description

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. Front Matter ....Pages i-xviii Introduction: In and Out: Intermedial Practices in the New Public Sphere (Katia Arfara, Aneta Mancewicz, Ralf Remshardt)....Pages 1-14 Intermedial Theatre in a Mediatized Culture and Society (Chiel Kattenbelt)....Pages 15-26 Intermedial Performance as a Public Sphere (Aneta Mancewicz)....Pages 27-42 Mirrors of Public Space: An Interview with Dries Verhoeven (Liesbeth Groot Nibbelink)....Pages 43-60 Democracy with a Toothbrush: Protest, Performance, and the Public Sphere (Christopher Balme)....Pages 61-72 Refugee Theatre in the (Inter)medial Matrix: Die Schutzbefohlenen and the Limits of Theatre as Public Sphere (Ralf Remshardt)....Pages 73-90 ‘Heterotopian Transformations’: An Interview with Akira Takayama (Natsuko Odate)....Pages 91-106 Troubled Feedback Loop: The Rise and Fall of Estonia by Theatre NO99 (Riina Oruaas)....Pages 107-123 Between Art, Society, Representation, and Subjectivity: Wojtek Ziemilski’s Prolog (Anna R. Burzyńska)....Pages 125-141 ‘The Intimacy of Public Space’: An Interview with Kris Verdonck (Kristof van Baarle)....Pages 143-156 Empire Strikes Back: The 2014 Maidan Revolution in Ukraine, Postmodern Spectatorship, and the Battle of Perception in the Public Sphere (Olga Danylyuk)....Pages 157-172 The Politics of the Digital Public Sphere: On Rabih Mroué’s The Pixelated Revolution (Katia Arfara)....Pages 173-189 ‘Almost Like a Teaching Play’: Daniel Wetzel/Rimini Protokoll in a Conversation with Florian Malzacher (Florian Malzacher)....Pages 191-208 Re-Materialising the Theatrical Public Sphere Through Intermediality in Grass Stage’s World Factory (Zheyu Wei)....Pages 209-227 Intermediating Immanence: On Ho Tzu Nyen’s Ten Thousand Tigers (Mi You)....Pages 229-243 ‘Reality is the Best Scenario’: An Interview with BERLIN (Kurt Vanhoutte, Charlotte De Somviele)....Pages 245-257 Back Matter ....Pages 259-267