Performance Activism

2021-12-02 Performing Arts

Author : Dan Friedman
Release : 2021-12-02
Genre : Performing Arts
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Book Rating : 913/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Performance Activism by : Dan Friedman

Download or read book Performance Activism written by Dan Friedman. This book was released on 2021-12-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book length study of performance activism. While Performance Studies recognizes the universality of human performance in daily life, what is specifically under investigation here is performance as an activity intentionally entered into as a means of engaging social issues and conflicts, that is, as an ensemble activity by which we re-construct/transform social reality. Performance Activism: Precursors and Contemporary Pioneers provides a global overview of the growing interface of performance with education, therapy, conflict resolution, civic engagement, community development and social justice activism. It combines an historical study of the processes by which, over the course of the 20th Century, performance has been loosened from the institutional constraints of the theatre with a mosaic-like overview of the diverse work/play of contemporary performance activists around the world. Performance Activism will be of interest to theatre and cultural historians, performance practitioners and researchers, psychologists and sociologists, educators and youth workers, community organizers and political activists.

Performance Constellations

2019-10-02 Performing Arts

Author : Marcela A. Fuentes
Release : 2019-10-02
Genre : Performing Arts
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Book Rating : 228/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Performance Constellations by : Marcela A. Fuentes

Download or read book Performance Constellations written by Marcela A. Fuentes. This book was released on 2019-10-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Demonstrates the power of embodied and digital networks in confronting neoliberal sociopolitical regimes in the Americas

Performance, Politics and Activism

2013-04-09 Performing Arts

Author : P. Lichtenfels
Release : 2013-04-09
Genre : Performing Arts
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Download or read book Performance, Politics and Activism written by P. Lichtenfels. This book was released on 2013-04-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considering both making political performance and making performance politically, this collection explores engagements of political resistance, public practice and performance media, on various scales of production within structures of neoliberal and liberal government and power.

Performance Action

2019-11-06 Art and social action

Author : Paula Serafini
Release : 2019-11-06
Genre : Art and social action
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Book Rating : 541/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Performance Action written by Paula Serafini. This book was released on 2019-11-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Performance Action looks to advance the understanding of how art activism works in practice, by unpacking the relationship between the processes and politics that lie at its heart. Focusing on the UK but situating its analysis in a global context of art activism, the book presents a range of different cases of performance-based art activism, including the anti-oil sponsorship performances of groups like Shell Out Sounds and BP or not BP?, the radical pedagogy project Shake!, the psychogeographic practice of Loiterers Resistance Movement, and the queer performances of the artist network Left Front Art. Based on participatory, ethnographic research, Performance Action brings together a wealth of first-hand accounts and interviews followed by in-depth analysis of the processes and politics of art activist practice. The book is unique in that it adopts an interdisciplinary approach that borrows concepts and theories from the fields of art history, aesthetics, anthropology, sociology and performance studies, and proposes a new framework for a better understanding of how art activism works, focusing on processes. The book argues that art activism is defined by its dual nature as aesthetic-political practice, and that this duality and the way it is manifested in different processes, from the building of a shared collective identity to the politics of participation, is key towards fully understanding what sets apart art activism from other forms of artistic and political practice. The book is aimed at both specialist and non-specialist audiences, offering an accessible and engaging way into new theoretical contributions in the field of art activism, as well as on wider subjects such as participation, collective identity, prefiguration and institutional critique.

Performance and Activism

2009 Business & Economics

Author : Kamran Afary
Release : 2009
Genre : Business & Economics
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Book Rating : 578/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Performance and Activism written by Kamran Afary. This book was released on 2009. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much has been written about the Los Angeles riots of 1992, which brought out deep racial tensions throughout the city, exposed by media images of police brutality. This book sheds light on another facet of the events: the birth of a dynamic grassroots activist and community organizing movement that has been little noticed by academics or even by the press. It also focuses on the theatrical production of Twilight: Los Angeles 1992, a performance piece created by Anna Deavere Smith. Performance and Activism analyzes a rich, eclectic, and ongoing ensemble of local activist struggles in the context of the history and political economy of Los Angeles. Building on the important critical urban studies work of Mike Davis and Edward Soja, it also draws on Dwight Conquergood's writings on performance ethnography to theorize the political work of grassroots formations such as alternative/underground media collectives, gang truce parties/picnics, and women-organized prisoner support and court watch groups, such as Mothers Reclaiming Our Children. The book focuses on these events through the interdisciplinary approach of performance studies, highlighting "performance-conscious activisms" that help bridge the enormous class, race, and gender divides of our society. Book jacket.

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