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Book SynopsisThe work of acclaimed German artist Christoph Schlingensief spans three decades and a diverse range of fields, including, film, television, activism, opera, and theatre. Christoph Schlingensief: Art Without Borders is the first book to be published in English on Schlingensief’s groundbreaking, politically engaged body of work. Leading scholars in the field offer a critical assessment of Schlingensief’s hybrid practice, and an interview with Schlingensief himself provides the reader with insight into past and present projects. The book will be an essential resource for artists, curators, students, and academics in the fields of theater and performance studies, film studies, cultural studies, German studies, political activism, and art history.
Table of ContentsForeword – Alexander Kluge
Background, Inspiration, Contexts – Tara Forrest and Anna Teresa Scheer
Chapter One: The Tunguska Manifesto: Schlingensief’s Critique of Film and the Restitution of Experience – Richard Langston
Chapter Two: An Obscene Reckoning: History and Memory in Schlingensief’s Deutschlandtrilogie – Kristin T. Vander Lugt
Chapter Three: Theatre of Self-Questioning: Rocky Dutschke, ’68, or the Children of the Revolution – Sandra Umathum
Chapter Four: Passion Impossible or Man with a Mission: A Go! manesque Intervention – Anna Teresa Scheer
Chapter Five: Putting the Public Sphere to the Test: On Publics and Counter-Publics in Chance 2000 – Solveig Gade
Chapter Six: ‘Right now Austria looks ridiculous’: Please Love Austria! – Reforging the Interaction between Art and Politics – Denise Varney
Chapter Seven: Productive Discord: Schlingensief, Adorno, and Freakstars 3000 – Tara Forrest
Chapter Eight: The Fusion and Confusion of Art and Terror(ism): ATTA ATTA – Brechtje Beuker
Chapter Nine: Media Play: Intermedial Satire and Parodic Exploration in Elfriede Jelinek and Christoph Schlingensief’s Bambiland – Morgan Koerner
Chapter Ten: Schlingensief’s Animatograph: Time Here Becomes Space – Roman Berka
Chapter Eleven: Citizen of the Other place: A Trilogy of Fear and Hope – Florian Malzacher
Chapter Twelve: Blurring Boundaries/Changing Perspectives: An Interview with Christoph Schlingensief – Florian Malzacher
