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Christoph Schlingensief - Staging Chaos, Performing Politics and Theatrical Phantasmagoria (Hardcover)
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Christoph Schlingensief - Staging Chaos, Performing Politics and Theatrical Phantasmagoria (Hardcover)
Series: Methuen Drama Engage
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The first book to focus specifically on the late German artist
Christoph Schlingensief's theatre work, it subversively merges art,
politics and everyday life to imbue his productions both inside and
outside the theatre with a re-energized concept of the political in
art. Scheer traces Schlingensief's artistic lineage as a filmmaker
with no formal training in theatre, whose work does not correspond
to theoretical frameworks such as postdramatic theatre,
Regietheater, or established categories of political theatre such
as Brechtian, community, and agit-prop theatre. She explores how
his work instead draws upon the highly performative gestures of the
historical and post-Cold War avant-gardes as well the happenings
and event-based practices of the sixties. Comprehensive case
studies of six diverse theatrical and activist events are offered
to demonstrate both the immediacy of Schlingensief's response to
contemporary social and political events and his use of a range of
artistic influences and different genres: Rocky Dutschke '68
(1996), Save Capitalism: Throw the Money Away! (1999) The Berlin
Republic - or the Ring in Africa (1999) Hamlet (2001), Atta Atta -
Art Has Broken Out! (2003) and the Church of Fear (2003). Key
questions such as how his theatre functions as a provocation, and
how an artist can insert themselves into the powerful flows of
imagery produced by the perpetual global news cycle, form a
coherent line of enquiry throughout each of the chapters. The
significance of Schlingensief's artistic legacy of politicized
theatre-making that pioneers new modes of active, aesthetic and
public engagement in the political realm remains pertinent to
topical socio-political debates and is of relevance to an
international audience across a diversity of disciplines.
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