Performance, an art form requiring and relying on live contact, renders such spreading visible, raises its stakes, and encodes it in theatrical form. Viral performance practices testify to the age-old-and ever renewed-instinct that when people gather, something spreads. Its chapters rethink the Living Theatre’s Artaudian revolution through the lens of affect theory, bring fresh attention to General Idea’s media-savvy performances of the 1970s, explore the digital-age provocations of Franco and Eva Mattes and Critical Art Ensemble, and survey the dramaturgies and political stakes of global theatrical networks. Viral Performance proposes the concept of the viral as an essential means of understanding socially engaged and transmedial performance practices since the mid-twentieth century. Yet theater, in the cultural imagination, has always been contagious. As a first step towards critical understanding and as an initial exploration before going on to further, primary research, Routledge Performance Practitioners are unbeatable value for today’s student.ĭownload Viral Performance Book in PDF, Epub and Kindleĭigital culture has occasioned a seismic shift in the discourse around contagion, transmission, and viral circulation. This is the first book to combine an overview of Artaud’s life with a focus on his work as an actor and director an analysis of his key theories, including the Theatre of Cruelty and the double a consideration of his work as a director at the Théâtre Alfred Jarry and his production of Strindberg’s A Dream Play and a series of practical exercises to develop an approach to theatre based on Artaud’s key ideas. Antonin Artaud was an active theatre-maker and theorist whose ideas reshaped contemporary approaches to performance. Each volume explains the background to and the work of one of the major influences on twentieth- and twenty-first-century performance. Routledge Performance Practitioners is a series of introductory guides to the key theatre-makers of the last century. Download Antonin Artaud Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
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