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Bloomsbury Academic Great Expectations
£11.99
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Bea
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Le Partage De La Parole
Book SynopsisLuce Irigray's "Zaharoff" lecture is part of an intellectual adventure begun with "Speculum". "De L'autre femme" (1974) and continued in "Ce sexe qui n'en est pas un" (1977) and "Ethique de al difference sexuelle" (1984). The present volume not only contains the text of "Le Partage de la parole" itself but also reprints two earlier essays that bear upon the same topic. Irigaray is a feminist philospher whose work has always had a practical dimension. In this collection, her arguments are underpinned by empirical research on the language of schoolchildren and should have wide implications not only for a range of academic disciplines but for educational policy-makers and for feminism as a political force.
£49.34
Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp Sited Body Public Visions
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Hohm Press,U.S. The Gurdjieff Movements: A Communication of
Book SynopsisScores of books exist about the life and teachings of the Russian spiritual visionary G.I. Gurdjieff (~1866-1949), yet few devote significant coverage to the Gurdjieff Movements. These several-hundred precise and mostly asymmetrical gestures, arranged into detailed choreographies for groups of practitioners, were designed by Gurdjieff himself. This new book reconsiders the eminent role of the Movements, revealing them as a vital yet often-neglected component in the transmission of Gurdjieffs legacy. Van Dullemen, whose first Movements teacher received her instruction from Gurdjieff himself, is in a unique position to offer background, theory and first-hand experience about this subject. He is a professional musician and a long-time practitioner of the Gurdjieff work who trained in these Movements and served as a master accompanist for the practice for over thirty years. No book can teach the Movements, the author clearly asserts. And, he makes no such attempt here. Far from an instruction manual, this book offers invaluable insight into and greater understanding of the whys and wherefores of this fourth arm of the vast teaching that comprises Gurdjieffs complete communication: his books, his oral teachings, his music and finally his Movements. Along with fascinating stories of his own journey of discovery, van Dullemen has skillfully integrated: autobiographical descriptions of the master Gurdjieff; interviews with direct pupils of Gurdjieff; diligent research within a wide range of firsthand sources; descriptions of the scientific, cultural and social climate during Gurdjieffs time, and; the relationship between these and his teaching. The book is also a rare accomplishment. While highly authoritative, it is nonetheless written in a direct style with clear language, making it accessible to the public at large who may have interest, but little background, in this esoteric science and practice.
£24.30
Taylor & Francis Ltd Off Nevsky Prospekt: St Petersburg's Theatre Studios in the 1980s and 1990s
Book SynopsisOff Nevsky Prospekt is the first study to be published in English of the exceptionally rich and diverse theatre studio movement which has flourished in St Petersburg during the 1980s and '90s. Professor Markova charts the development of the theatre studios - from their beginnings as a reaction to the repressive atmosphere of the Soviet period and through the "theatre bacchanalia" of the Perestroika years. She then surveys today's vibrant scene, with analyses of key productions and interviews with many of the central figures, and describes how theatre studios have subverted the conventions of the past to create a new dialogue with the changing society from which their audience is drawn.Table of ContentsIntroduction to the series List of Plates 1. Before we turn off Nevsky Prospekt (In lieu of an introduction) 2. Never lie to yourself 3. A stranger among my own people 4. Why is everything always so hard for us all? 5. A youth rehabilitation centre 6. An ecological niche 7. Theatre of dreams 8. Private life in the show genre 9. In search of the fire to make the omelette 10. Entry by love only 11. Derevo: the Tree and its roots 12. Diklon flickers on 13. What we have we don't measure, when we lose it we cry 14. Postscript Index
£109.41
Taylor & Francis Ltd The DbD Experience
Book SynopsisFirst, pick up a copy of Rachel Rosenthal's inspiring The DbD Experience; Part manual, part manifesto, part memoir, then head for Los AngelesFRIDAY - OriginsArrive at the Doing by Doing workshop to be greeted by Rosenthal, pioneering theatre explorer and your host for the weekend ahead. Explore non-human ways of living and moving. Begin to develop a shared vocabulary with your fellow students through exercises. SATURDAY - ConnectionsContinue to connect with the group on an energetic level. Make the journey from Kansas to OZ. Collaborate and create as a group, moving and vocalising without language. Improvise boldly at every step. Treat music, voice, lighting, costume, sets, props and fellow performers as equals.SUNDAY - PowerLearn to arrive in the moment when you are needed. Engage with transformative processes and take part in the Star Meditation. Understand your own individual power, joining your physical and emotTable of Contents1. Foreword by Katie Noonan 2. Introduction 3. Preface 4. What is Doing by Doing? 5. Addendum
£128.25
Taylor & Francis Ltd Stepping Stones
Book SynopsisStepping Stones is the book of a practitioner. It documents the work of a laboratory-based practice that investigated the principles of collective improvisation as a performance practice. Though the dynamics and mechanisms of collective work and improvisation have been amply researched in training and composition contexts, not so can be said in the context of performance. Ingemar Lindh's research, which announces a resistance to choreography, fixed scores, and directorial montage, has significant implications for the practice and theory of performance in a post-dramatic age. Stepping Stones is, to quote Lindh himself, a book not written but spoken' in the sense that it is a collection of transcripts and writings by and about Lindh. The first two chapters are based on a transcript of a workshop held in Porsgrunn (Norway) in 1981. In these chapters Lindh's unique work on performer process (including the adaptation of isometric training for actors) is expounded in theTable of ContentsPreface to the Italian edition - Acknowledgements - Introduction to the English edition by Frank Camilleri - 1. In Search of Research - Introduction: A Hypothesis - The Actor: Poetry and Technique - 2. Catching the Moment of Eternity - Training - Frescoes - Immobility - The Actor - Incarnation - Alternation - Collective Improvisation - Stepping Stones - 3. 'Dear Friend...' - First Letter to Bengt Häger - Second Letter to Bengt Häger - 4. The Transparent Man - An Interview with Ingemar Lindh by Paolo Martini - 5. Institut för Scenkonst - AChronology by Magdalena Pietruska - 1971-1996: Twenty-Five Years of Research, Pedagogy, Performances - Post Scriptum - Munkängen 1998-2001 - Index of Performances - Index of Photographs - Glossary of Terms by Frank Camilleri - Index
£36.99
Taylor & Francis Ltd Three Plays by Mae West
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Phaidon Press Ltd In the Studio
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University of Regina Press Performing Turtle Island
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Primary Information Fia Backstrom Coop
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Primary Information Title Tk An Anthology
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Contemporary Plays by Women of Color
Book SynopsisIn the two decades since the first edition of Contemporary Plays by Women of Color was published, its significance to the theatrical landscape in the United States has grown exponentially. Work by female writers and writers of color is more widely produced, published, and studied than ever before. Drawing from an exciting range of theaters, large and small, from across the country, Roberta Uno brings together an up-to-date selection of plays from renowned and emerging playwrights tackling a variety of topics. From the playful to the painful, this revised and updated edition presents a rich array of voices, aesthetics, and stories for a transforming America.Table of ContentsIntroductionRoberta Uno Cardboard PianoHansol Jung ClothesChitra Banerjee Divakaruni Daughter of a Cuban RevolutionaryMarissa Chibas EclipsedDanai Gurira Elliot, A Soldier’s FugueQuiara Alegría Hudes Etchings in the SandMeena Natarajan ∙ Ananya Chatterjea Food and FadwaLameece Issaq ∙ Jacob Kader Gunshot MedleyDionna Michelle Daniel He Lei no Kākā‘āko: Woven MemoriesTammy Hailiʻōpua Baker Lines in the DustNikkole Salter Mala HierbaTanya Saracho N*gg*Lynn Nottage Our Lady of KibehoKatori Hall Our Voices Will Be HeardVera Starbard Scenes from 68* YearsHannah Khalil Stand-Off at HW#37Vickie Ramirez Sun SistersVasanti Saxena The Adventures at Camp KaKeeKwaSha and the Magic Musky Casino! Marcie R. Rendon The Wild InsideCusi Cram The Wong Street JournalKristina Wong What Would Crazy Horse Do?Larissa FastHorse Zafira the Olive Oil Warrior Kathryn Haddad
£48.99
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Fashion Performance and Performativity
Book SynopsisIn the first comprehensive study of the interactions between fashion, performance and performativity, a group of international experts explore fashion as the ideal complex space' or, in other words, the ideal space where performance and performativity come together, according to the works of seminal theorists Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick and Andrew Parker.Bringing together western and non-western, historical and contemporary case studies and theories, the book explores the magazines, photography, exhibitions, global colonial divides, digital media, and more, which have become key markers of the fashion industry as we know it today.Using existing literature as a springboard and incorporating perspectives from fashion studies, art history, media studies and gender studies, as well as from artists and practitioners, Fashion, Performance, and Performativity is an innovative and essential work for students, scholars and practitioners across multiple disciplines.Trade ReviewFashion, Performance, and Performativity is one of those rare collections that provide radical new directions for a discipline. Kollnitz and Pecorari and their contributors show how fashion is an affective agent, revitalizing debates about the use and meaning of clothing in society. This timely book provides fashion scholars with new tools for analyzing sartorial activism. * Christopher Breward, Director, National Museums Scotland *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction Andrea Kollnitz and Marco Pecorari Transformations and Translations 1. Leigh Bowery and Judith Butler: Between Performance and Performativity Francesca Granata 2. The Emirati burqa. ‘An Intimate Object’ from a Cultural, Historical and Contemporary Art Perspective. Karima Al Shomely 3. Written In The Voice: Tommy Roberts and the Oral History of British Fashion – a Case Study in Vocality, the Narratable Self, and Memory. Paul Jobling Stages and Places 4. In Store(d) Behaviors: Tsuneko Taniuchi’s Poetics of Clothed Performance. Emmanuel Cohen 5. The Fashioned Female Body, Performativity and the Bare Flaneuse. Jacki Willson 6. Colonies and Clothing: The Uses of Fashion in Interwar France and West Africa. Victoria L. Rovine 7. From Lil Miquela to Shudu: Digital Slavery and the 21st-Century Racialized Performance of Identity Politics. Jonathan Michael Square Models and Poses 8. The Utopian ‘No-Place’ of the Fashion Photograph. Karen de Perthuis 9. Italian Fashion Models. Rethinking the Discourse on National Identity. Gabriele Monti 10. Films with A Venegance: Lesbian Desire and Hyper-Violence in the Fashion Film, 2009-2012. Louise Wallenberg 11. Male Gender Performance and Regency Fashion Writing. Royce Mahawatte List of Contributors Index
£85.50
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Costume in Performance
Book SynopsisDonatella Barbieri is Senior Research Fellow in Design for Performance at London College of Fashion, UK, and, previously, at the Victoria and Albert Museum, UK.With contributions from Melissa Trimingham, Senior Lecturer in Drama at the University of Kent, UK.Trade ReviewBeautifully produced. * Times Literary Supplement *[A] richly illustrated, compelling analysis of historical and contemporary costume design. The book successfully provokes a scholarly conversation that makes a marked departure from the kind of how-to book or fashion history that tends to dominate the shelves ... [It] ... explores interdisciplinary theoretical territory and makes broader arguments about the function of costume within a variety of performance genres, time-periods, and sociopolitical contexts. * Theatre Topics *This richly illustrated book presents a range of lenses for the study of costume for performance. The ambitious breadth of topics and periods covered [gives] a tantalising taste of interdisciplinary theories and methods ... This ambitious work is a significant step forward in this emerging field and offers a beautifully illustrated introduction to a wide range of theories and methods for analysing costume for performance. It is an important book for students and scholars in this field. * The Journal of Dress History *Barbieri (London College of Fashion, UK) offers a refreshing look at costumes and their use throughout history in creation, use, and affect in the development of live performance. The author finds connections between contemporary work and historical costume in pageantry, theater, and dance. Six chapters take up a wide variety of topics, exploring for example the transformative ritual of costume, costuming of choruses, the grotesque “Other” body, flying technology and costume, and costume in the present representing the past. Chapter 5, contributed by Trimingham (drama and theater, Univ. of Kent, UK), offers a compelling look at the effective power of costume as art. This well-written, beautifully illustrated book brings to light the importance of costume to live performance in terms of its preparation and presentation. Drawing examples from ancient Greece as well as a wide variety of European theater, from medieval theater to more contemporary and experimental productions, this book is sure to become required reading for students and scholars of costume design and history. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals, including students in technical programs. * CHOICE *This is essential reading for anyone interested in performance and costumes, providing an exciting and accessible scholarly exploration of the uses and significance of costumes from prehistoric ritual to contemporary theater. It is valuable for its international range of productions and detailed descriptions of significant costumes, including dance, circus performance, street theater and traditional stage. -- Patricia Lennox, New York University, USADonatella Barbieri has crafted a unique and intriguing way of looking at the history of costumes for performance. Drawing on case studies and in-depth analysis of performance costume, this book is a marvelous addition for researchers in the costume discipline. -- Colleen Muscha, School of Theatre, College of Fine Arts, Florida State University, USAThis poetic work is a tour de force of lively research and imagination. Charting the transformation of performance costume across time, space and material, Barbieri, with Trimigham, takes us from the Ancient Greek chorus to modern trapeze artists, revealing how costume creates new thresholds of human experience. -- Peter McNeil, University of Technology, Sydney, AustraliaWith compelling scholarship and great artistic sensitivity, Barbieri deftly explores the cultural, societal and creative agency of the costumed and performing body. In tracing the complex artistic, historical and cultural journey from every day clothing through the designer to the cutting table to the stage costume, this magnificently illustrated book makes an absolutely essential contribution to our understanding of scenography. -- Christopher Baugh, University of Leeds, UKDonatella Barbieri’s own breadth of skills as a passionate lecturer, an inspiring teacher and a practitioner are all evident in this wonderful and uncompromising new book. Through the agility of her themes and connections from paleolithic cave painting to the most recent performances or archival discoveries, she never loses sight of the metamorphic power of costume. This is a daring and inspiring book. -- Judith Clark, Research Centre for Fashion Curation, University of the Arts London, UK.Table of ContentsPreface Introduction 1 The First Costume: Ritual and Reinvention 2 Costuming Choruses: Spectacle and the Social Landscape on Stage 3 The Grotesque Costume: The Comical and Conflicted ‘Other’ Body 4 The Flight off the Pedestal 5 Agency and Empathy: Artists Touch the Body 6 A Different Performativity: Society, Culture and History on Stage Notes Selected Bibliography Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Dynamic Acting through Active Analysis
Book SynopsisIn the 21st century, actors face radical changes in plays and performance styles, as they move from stage to screen and grapple with new technologies that present their art to ever-expanding audiences. Active Analysis offers the flexibility of mind, body, and spirit now urgently needed in acting. Dynamic Acting through Active Analysis brings to light this timely legacy, born during the worst era of Soviet repression and hidden for decades from public view. Part I unfolds like a mystery novel through letters, memoirs, and transcripts of Konstantin Stanislavsky's last classes. Far from the authoritarian director of his youth, he reveals himself as a generous mentor, who empowers actors with a brand new collaborative approach to rehearsals. His assistant, Maria Knebel, first bears witness to his forward-looking ideas and then builds the bridge to new plays in new styles through her directing and influential teaching. Part II follows a 21st century company of diverse actors as thTrade ReviewSharon Marie Carnicke eloquently tells the story of Stanislavsky’s monumental later, yet lesser-known, innovations in the art of acting. She then traces the journey of his protégé Knebel, who, almost singlehandedly, harbored and developed this work through the great restrictions of the late-Soviet world. With great compassion, Carnicke imagines what they might have undergone during what were perhaps their darkest hours, with Stanislavsky under house arrest and Knebel struggling to preserve and persevere. Carnicke then insightfully shares these innovations with her own students and thereby with the reader of this book. In our current moment as we transition to more collaborative environments, Active Analysis will prove to be a boon for rising theatre artists. * Anne Bogart, Founder and Co-Artistic Director of SITI Company, Professor of Theatre, Columbia University *Carnicke gives Stanislavsky a humanity that does not exist in other texts, and gives her readers practical access to concepts that are often mired in academic and theoretical verbiage. Through rehearsals of Shakespeare, Chekhov, and a previously unproduced play, Carnicke presents Active Analysis as a usable methodology for any actor or director. A true gift! * Milton Justice , Academy Award and Emmy Award Winning Producer, Director, and Acting Teacher, Author and Podcaster of I Don’t Need an Acting Class *With intelligence, wit, compassion and respect for the traditions of theatre, Carnicke guides us to an understanding of Active Analysis and its continuing vitality in our ever changing world. Her book is a testament to the resilience of the human spirit. * Mary Joan Negro, Actor, Director, Tony Award Nominee, and Acting Teacher, Founding Member of John Houseman’s the Acting Company *With consummate expertise, meticulous scholarship, and innovative actor training, Carnicke reveals in clear, practical terms how Active Analysis works and how to apply it. This book could not be more timely or relevant. * R. Andrew White, Professor of Theatre, Valparaiso University, Editor, The Routledge Companion to Stanislavsky *Carnicke combines history, acting technique, and practical theatre advice to present a fresh approach to acting and directing in any style of theatre or film. * Michael King, Director and Associate Professor of Acting and Performance, Northern Kentucky University, USA *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations About the Author Acknowledgements Note on Transliteration and Translation List of Abbreviations of Frequently Cited Sources Preface: To My Readers PART I: The People Behind the Legacy Chapter 1: The Mystery on Leontyevsky Lane Chapter 2: Behind Closed Doors Chapter 3: The Truth Will Out! PART II: Six Lessons in Active Analysis Lesson 1: The Dynamic Principles of Performance Lesson 2: Scene Study through Active Analysis—Shakespeare Lesson 3: Scene Study through Active Analysis—Chekhov Lesson 4: Rehearsing a Play through Active Analysis—Johnson Lesson 5: The System in Active Analysis Lesson 6: Working With Active Analysis in the Real World Appendix: The Lie (2020), a ten minute play by Joan Eyles Johnson Bibliography Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC An Inconvenient Black History of British Musical
Book SynopsisA radically urgent intervention, An Inconvenient Black History of British Musical Theatre: 1900 - 1950 uncovers the hidden Black history of this most influential of artforms. Drawing on lost archive material and digitised newspapers from the turn of the century onwards, this exciting story has been re-traced and restored to its rightful place. A vital and significant part of British cultural history between 1900 and 1950, Black performance practice was fundamental to resisting and challenging racism in the UK.Join Mayes (a Broadway- and Toronto-based Music Director) and Whitfield (a musical theatre historian and researcher) as they take readers on a journey through a historically-inconvenient and brilliant reality that has long been overlooked. Get to know the Black theatre community in London's Roaring 20s, and hear about the secret Florence Mills memorial concert they held in 1928. Acquaint yourself with Buddy Bradley, Black tap and ballet choreographer, who reshaped dance in Trade ReviewBy using in-depth research and anecdotes it breathes life into an important and forgotten period of Black British history … Presents timely insight for future scholars, graduate students, and theatre buffs. * Word Matters (STSD) *The book opens up many possibilities for future scholars, graduate students, and theatre buffs to engage in recovery work that paints a more accurate portrait of UK theatre and forces us to reconsider the role of white supremacy that has plagued theatre at large … Mayes and Whitfield’s book offers a roadmap, a corrective to reframing musical theatre histories in a way that might make us feel like we aren’t experts. I, for one, wasn’t aware of these histories. They were new to me. I didn’t have the knowledge base I typically have when reading and engaging with musical theatre history. But this is precisely the beauty of the book—it offers a learning tool. * The Theatre Times *This necessary, powerfully anti-racist book provides space and a platform for those artists who might otherwise have been forgotten. It serves as a salient reminder of the wealth of Black performers who should not be consigned to history. * The Times Literary Supplement *Table of ContentsPart I Black practitioners and international performance networks The 1900s in context 1 Will Marion Cook and In Dahomey (1903) 2 Belle Davis, Laura Steer and Cassie Walmer The 1910s in context 3 Following a year of Black performance in the UK: 1916 4 Will Garland: Black cultural production on a national stage Part II Black networks of production The 1920s in context 5 The secret Florence Mills Memorial Concert: January 1928 6 Alberta Hunter and Mabel Mercer The 1930s in context 7 Clarence ‘Buddy’ Bradley and Clarence Robinson Part III Anti-racism and anti-imperialism in London 8 Sam Manning, Amy Ashwood Garvey and 1930s anti-colonialism 9 Swing from Calloway to ‘Snakehips’ Johnson The 1940s in context 10 Calypso and Black resistance Epilogue
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
Book SynopsisHe was born in Cheshire, and educated in Oxford, where he lectured in mathematics.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Hansel and Gretel
Book SynopsisCarl Grose is a member of the UK's acclaimed Cornish company Kneehigh Theatre and has performed and written a number of shows.Kneehigh are celebrated as one of the UK's most exciting theatre companies. They have a unique approach to making theatre, developing scripts through a collaborative devising process. Previous work includes: Tristan & Yseult, The Bacchae, The Wooden Frock and The Red Shoes.Trade ReviewKneehigh are a company who have always taken a sideways look at classic tales, as they create they're own ramshackle myth and magic... A madcap pleasure. -- Lyn Gardner * The Guardian *Table of ContentsKneehigh Introduction Characters Act One Act Two
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Worms Publishing Catgut
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC An Introduction to Theatre Performance and the
Book SynopsisDr John Lutterbie is a professor at Stony Brook University, New York, USA, where he teaches performance theory in the Department of Theatre Arts. He is co-founder of the Center for Embodied Cognition, a consortium of scholars in the arts, humanities and neurosciences that does experimental as well as humanist research. He is co-editor (with Nicola Shaughnessy) of Bloomsbury Methuen Drama's Performance and Science series, and author of Toward and General Theory of Acting: Cognitive Science and Performance (2011). Trade ReviewPractical exercises throughout the book … highlight intersections between the body and its environment and present an array of sensory investigations and means to develop a fuller consciousness of inner and outer spaces. * Drama Research *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Introduction: Intersections Chapter 1: Landscapes Chapter 2: Culture and the Petri Dish Chapter 3: The Worlds of Performance Chapter 4: Temporality Chapter 5: The Text Chapter 6: Aesthetics Epilogue Notes References Further Reading Index
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Edinburgh University Press A Philosophy of Practising
Book SynopsisProvides an account of 'practising', its mechanisms and implications, in conversation with Deleuze's Difference and Repetition.Trade Review"Antonia Pont's achievement in this book is difficult to quickly summarise. This is a thinking-through practicing, displaying an extremely sensitivity to its manifold complexities; a meticulous, illuminating and fresh working-through of Gilles Deleuze's baroque philosophy of time; a consideration of rest and posture, injury and pain in their proper texture Pont does not simply reconstruct that familiar bridge between the clich of blind practice and sovereign, panoptic philosophy. In place of application, this astonishing book instead presents a weaving, an intertwining, in the course of which the discrete places of philosophy and practice are themselves undone and redone over and over again, their original names lost in the difficult joy of their ceaseless transformation." -Jon Roffe, Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) The Bloomsbury Handbook of Sound Art
Book SynopsisSanne Krogh Groth is Associate Professor of Musicology at Lund University, Sweden. She is Office Director of the Sound Environment Centre, Lund University, and Co-Editor-in-Chief of the online journal Seismograf. She is author of the book Politics and Aesthetics in Electronic Music (2014) and is currently conducting field-based research on experimental music and de-colonial aesthetics in Indonesia. Holger Schulze is Professor of Musicology at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, and Principal Investigator at the Sound Studies Lab. He is the author of numerous books including Sound as Popular Culture (2016), The Sonic Persona (Bloomsbury, 2018), and Sound Works (Bloomsbury, 2019).Trade Review[This book] deserves a wide and engaged readership, for this is an important collection of curated essays that drives the debates around sound art into new territories. Its focus on sound as an operative force that might hold power to account makes it that rare thing, a most timely textbook. * The Wire *Sanne Krogh Groth and Holger Schulze have edited a volume of almost 600 pages that consists of very interesting texts that explain how social perspectives and art historical theory can fruitfully be applied to sound art and yield insights not easily developed through the traditional focus on sound and space. The book makes a very good case for why it is necessary to expand the reading and understanding of sound art’s many sub-genres in order to grasp the contemporary developments, in particular socially engaged works with political intentionality. * Jøran Rudi in Organised Sound, December 2020 *An innovative, comprehensive and timely volume that I cannot recommend enough. * SoundEffects *A welcome and important book that greatly enriches the scope of the sound art domain and should be of considerable interest to both theorists and practitioners. * Journal of Sonic Studies *Table of ContentsSound Art. The First 100 Years of an Aggressively Expanding Art Form (Sanne Krogh Groth, Lund University, Sweden, and Holger Schulze, University of Copenhagen, Denmark) Part I After the Apocalypse. The Desert of the Real as Sound Art 1. The Sonic Aftermath. The Anthropocene and Interdisciplinarity after the Apocalypse (Anette Vandsø, Aarhus University, Denmark) 2. Composing Sociality. Toward an Aesthetics of Transition Design (Jeremy Woodruff, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey) 3. Dealing with Disaster. Notes toward a Decolonizing, Aesthetico-Relational Sound Art (Pedro J. S. Vieira de Oliveira, Sound Artist and Independent Scholar, Germany) 4. Vocalizing Dystopian and Utopian Impulses. The End of Eating Everything (Stina Marie Hasse Jørgensen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark) Part II Journeys Across the Grid. Postcolonial Transformations as Sound Art 5. “Diam!” (Be Quiet!). Noisy Sound Art from the Global South (Sanne Krogh Groth, Lund University, Sweden) 6. Curating Potential. Migration and Sonic Artistic Practices in Berlin (Juliana Hodkinson, Royal Academy of Music, Denmark, in Conversation with Elke Moltrecht, Academy of the Art of the World, Germany, and Julia Gerlach, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany) 7. Four Artistic Journeys i. Pockets of Communities (Holger Schulze, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, in Conversation with Emeka Ogboh, Columbia’s Institute for Ideas and Imagination, France) ii. Cairo Baby-Doll. Some Remarks on a Cairo Sound Art Scene (Søren Møller Sørensen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark) iii. When I Close My Eyes Everything Is So Damn Pretty (Can’t Do the Thing You Want, Can’t Do the Thing You Want, Can’t Do the Thing You Want) (Samson Young, Composer and Artist, Hong Kong) iv. Sound in Covert Places. Indonesian Sound Art Development through Bandung Perspectives (Bob Edrian, Institut Teknologi Bandung, Indonesia) 8. Sound Art in East and Southeast Asia. Historical and Political Considerations (Cedrik Fermont, Musician and Independent Scholar, Berlin, Germany, and Dimitri della Faille, University of Quebec, Canada) Part III Come Closer ... Intimate Encounters as Sound Art 9. Kiss, Lick, Suck. Micro-Orality of Intimate Intensities (Brandon LaBelle, University of Bergen, Norway) 10. Gender, Intimacy, and Voices in Sound Art. Encouragements, Self-portraits, and Shadow Walks (Cathy Lane, University of the Arts, London, UK) 11. Sonic Intimacies. The Sensory Status of Intimate Encounters in 3-D Sound Art (Sabine Feisst and Garth Paine, Arizona State University, USA) 12. Intruders Touching You. Intimate Encounters in Audio (Holger Schulze, University of Copenhagen, Denmark) Part IV De-Institutionalize! Institutional Critique as Sound Art 13. Inquiring into the Hack. New Sonic and Institutional Practices by Paulina Oliveros, Pussy Riot, and Goodiepal (Sharon Stewart, Utrecht University, the Netherlands) 14. Outside and Around Institutions. Two Artistic Positions i. Working in the Sounding Field (Annea Lockwood, Vassar College, USA) ii. Conversations and Utopias (Holger Schulze, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, in Conversation with Mendi Obadike, Pratt Institute, USA, and Keith Obadike, William Patterson University, USA) 15. Audiogrammi of a Collective Intelligence. The Composers-Researchers of S2FM, SMET, NPS, and Other Mavericks (Laura Zattra, Francesco Venezze Conservatory of Music, Italy) 16. Sounding in Paths, Hearing through Cracks. Sonic Art Practices and Urban Institutions (Elen Flügge, Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland) Part V The Sonic Imagination. Sonic Thinking as Sound Art 17. The Sonic Fiction of Sound Art. A Background to the Theory-Fiction of Sound (Macon Holt, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK) 18. Women Sonic Thinkers. The Histories of Seeing, Touching, and Embodying Sound (Sandra Kazlauskaite, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK) 19. "Specific Dissonances." A Geopolitics of Frequency (Alastair Cameron, Independent Scholar, UK, and Eleni Ikoniadou, Royal College of Art, UK) 20. A Universe in a Grain of Sound. The Production of Time and Fiction in Machinic Sound Art (Tobias Ewé, University of British Columbia, Canada) Part VI Making Sound. Building Media Instruments as Sound Art 21. The Instrument as Theater. Instrumental Reworkings in Contemporary Sound Art (Sanne Krogh Groth, Lund University, Sweden, and Ulrik Schmidt, Roskilde University, Denmark) 22. From Turntable to Neural Net. Sound Art, Technoscience, Craft, and the Instrument (Chris Salter and Alexandre Saunier, Concordia University, Canada) 23. The Instrument as Medium. Phonographic Work (Rolf Großmann, Leuphana University of Lünenberg, Germany) 24. How to Build an Instrument? Three Artistic Positions--Articles and Interviews i. Membrane. Materialities and Intensities of Sound (Carla J. Maier, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany, in Conversation with Marianthi Papalexandri-Alexandri, Cornell University, USA) ii. Pickups and Strings. On Experimental Preparation and Magnetic Amplification (Yuri Landman, Academy for Pop Culture, the Netherlands) iii. Mechanics. From Physicality over Symbolism through Malfunction and Back Again (Morten Riis, The Royal Academy of Music, Aarhus, Denmark) Notes References Contributors Index
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Cornerstone Art Cure
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Museum of Modern Art Club 57: Film, Performance, and Art in the East
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Rivers Oram Press A Split Second of Paradise: Live Art,
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Just Press Taking on the Empire: How We Saved the Hackney
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£14.25
Maney Publishing The Tradition of the Actor-author in Italian
Book SynopsisThis book brings together critical essays on the role of the actor-author, spanning the period from the Renaissance to the present. It surveys the works of Dario Fo, De Filippo, and Bene, and casts light on a tradition which continues into Neapolitan and Sicilian theatre today.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. The Actor-Author in Castiglione's 'Il Cortegiano': 'lo esser travestito porta seco una certa libertà e licenzia' 2. Perché molte cose stanno ben nella penna che nella scena starebben male' Reading Between the Lines of the Surviving Ruzante Texts 3. Isabella Andreini's Stage Repertoire: The 'Lettere' and 'Fragmenti' 4. Commedie fortunate…’: 'Le due comedie in comedia' di Giovan Battista Andreini 5. The Actor and the Author: Renaissance Theatre in England and Italy 6. Goldoni, Gozzi, e il lavoro con l'attore 7. Napoli tra Ottocento e Novecento: dalla drammaturgia dell'attore alla drammaturgia dell'autore e ritorno 8. Il dilemma del teatro: 'La parte di Amleto' di Eduardo De Filippo 9. Characters in an English Adaptation of 'Napoli milionaria!' 10. La scrittura 'sul pubblico': The Fo-Rame Method 11. Franca Rame's Dowry How the Rame Family Tradition Lives On in the Theatre of Dario Fo and Franca Rame 12. Il 'funerale dell'orale'. Carmelo Bene: la scena e la scena della pagina 13. The Actor-Narrator 14. Marco Baliani's Theatrical Storytelling of Wonderment 15. Sguardi su una Napoli contemporanea attraverso il teatro di Annibale Ruccello 16. Il buio in fondo al sacco Parole in fuga e corpi senza scampo nel teatro di Spiro Scimone
£75.00
HENI Publishing What Is Gilbert & George?
Book SynopsisIn answering the question posed by its title, and drawing on his twenty year relationship with the artists, Michael Bracewell is the first writer to engage directly with Gilbert & George to understand why they have devoted their lives exclusively and continuously - to the vision of art they conceived within months of first meeting. What emerges piece by piece is a portrait of Gilbert & George as two men who are infinitely more intense, strange, determined and alone than their longstanding public image suggests.
£9.45
Occasional Papers Répondeur
£20.90
Ugly Duckling Presse Quartet
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£11.78
De Gruyter Kunst, Musik und Peter Brötzmann: Free Music Art
Book SynopsisSince the mid-1960s, Peter Brötzmann has made a decisive impact on the international free jazz and improvized music scene; parallel to his musical activity, he also practices as a visual artist. This volume takes a look at the outstanding “double talent” from various scholarly perspectives. It is dedicated to the artistic crossing of boundaries, asking how the art and music genres influence each other, and what parallels or differences can be identified in terms of artistic concepts and expressive forms. The focus is on the word “free” – as an element in the name of the music genre free jazz and the record label FMP, co-founded by Peter Brötzmann. This points to a social dimension, but also to a creative musical or artistic principle in relation to the “free arts”. The book contains one of the last interviews with the artist. Interdisciplinary contribution on reciprocal influences between musical and artistic genres New academic research on Peter Brötzmann
£22.05
Hatje Cantz Eric Hattan (Bilingual edition): Five O'Clock
Book SynopsisEric Hattan is known for his canny interventions in public places and causing surprise by thwarting the familiar order. This is also the case at the Museum Langmatt, which invited the Swiss artist to playfully intervene on its premises. The historic villa with its mahogany parquet flooring, fine carpets, chandeliers, and manicured garden provides a contrasting foil for Hattan’s installations, composed of worn clothing, metal parts, and other less exquisite materials. Five o’clock Shadow documents the ensuing dialogue that spans from the rich contrast between the present and the Belle Epoque, and shows how the venerable building is being tangibly enlivened.
£23.80
Hatje Cantz Willi Dorner Bilingual edition
Book SynopsisFollowing bodies in urban spaces, Willi Dorner's urban drifting is a retrospective on a series of selected projects that were set up and executed in various urban situations - both in- and outdoor. They complete the picture of his artistic work beneath from the stage. The projects are accompanied by relflections covering a period from the end of the 1980s to the present day. The selection gives an insight into his thinking, describes events and experiences on his travels and provides a glimpse behind the scenes of the projects. A photo series with a focus on the city complement his personally held remarks and show his view of Vienna.
£51.00
Hatje Cantz Heaven Baek: Platforms of Reality (Bilingual
Book SynopsisPlatforms of Reality examines the oeuvre of a multi-layered analysis and interpretation of Heaven Baek's work, which resonates through the composition of people and society in both reality and on stage. The main content of the book ranges from the artist's early works to her recent practice, where she questions the reality of video timelines and instant realities with a strong sense of immediacy, collective memories, and staged realities. And through these well-scripted performances, she is thus representing the flood of real information that has somehow lost its purpose and meaning. The book is divided into four different chapters, each exploring a different sense of reality. The “platform” is used for both as a stage or, where trains leave from different tracks with different destinations, crossing paths while encountering each other continuously. These platforms may be imagined as stages for her work—bringing together her artistic approaches where Baek attempts to permeate social collectives with her research and artistic methodologies—from drawing to video to installation.
£30.40
Hatje Cantz Verlag Marina Abramovic. Free Interdisciplinary
Book SynopsisThe outstanding performance artist Marina Abramović was the first holder of the new Pina Bausch Professorship at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen in 2022/23. She focused on transdisciplinarity, artistic daring and social awareness. In her Free Interdisciplinary Performance Laboratory (FIPL), Abramović brought together over twenty students from the fields of music, dance, design, photography, (physical) theater and directing. Over two semesters, they realized artistic-performative projects that dealt with agency, resilience and body awareness and explored physical and mental boundaries.
£40.50
Hirmer Verlag 125th Street: Photography in Harlem
Book SynopsisHarlem’s 125th Street is a marker of 20th century urban experience, a thoroughfare that encapsulates powerful stories of business and consumption, real estate and gentrification, glamour and entertainment, and political uprising. The book explores works and themes from a large roster of photographers and performance artists who have engaged with the constant mutation of this street-life. The photographs in this book represent narratives of resilience and poems of survival against a rapid and sweeping movement of history across 125th street, where buildings and communities are periodically destroyed and built anew. The works shape a sense of belonging and identity that goes against the stereotyping and mystification of this neighborhood. It contributes to the writing of a new history of photography that is collective and collaborative. Among the artists featured are Dawoud Bey, Khalik Allah, Kwame Brathwaite, Jamel Shabazz, Hiram Maristany, Ming Smith, Ruben Natal San Miguel, Isaac Diggs & Edward Hillel, Lorraine O’Grady, and William Pope.L. Artists include: Berenice Abbott, Khalik Allah, Alice Attie, Dawoud Bey, Kwame Brathwaite Isaac Diggs & Edward Hillel, Lola Flash, Hiram Maristany, Ozier Muhammad, Katsu Naito Marilyn Nance, Ruben Natal-San Miguel, Lorraine O’Grady, Gordon Parks, Pope.L, Jamel Shabazz, Coreen Simpson, Beuford Smith, Ming Smith, Morgan and Marvin Smith, Shawn Walker Hai Zhang.
£23.96
Archive Books Body Luggage: Migration of Gestures. Migration
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£19.00
EDIZIONI C/O BARDI RUSHES
£52.20
DISTANZ Verlag GmbH Images in Mind Bodies in Space
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£35.20
Steidl Publishers Henry Leutwyler: Misty Copeland
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£36.00
Spector Books Things That Go Through Your Mind When Falling.
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£30.60
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art Marina Abramovic Ulay No Predicted End
Book SynopsisKasper Bech Dyg is a director and writer based in Denmark.
£31.50
Skira Last Days of the Opera
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£28.00
Skira Katalin Ladik: Ooooooooo-pus
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£32.00
Skira Maria Madeira
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£24.00
Produzioni Nero The Painter
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£23.75
