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Off Sites - Contemporary Performance beyond Site-Specific (Paperback)
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Off Sites: Contemporary Performance beyond Site-Specific rethinks
current definitions of "site-specific performance"-a genre of
theatre that adopts spaces outside of traditional theatre buildings
and uses the experience of space, place, and situation as an
integral component to the structure and content of a theatrical
work. This book looks at key productions of artists working in this
genre, including Private Moment by David Levine and Geyser Land,
conceived and directed by video artist Mary Ellen Strom and
choreographer Ann Carlson. This incredibly rich and vital part of
theatre in the past several decades has become diverse enough that
the term "site-specific" has ceased to adequately describe it.
Contextualizing site-specific practices in both visual and
performing arts discourses, author Bertie Ferdman traces the
evolution of that term from an experimental staging practice to an
engaged situational event. Substituting the term "off-site," she
illustrates the ways in which a new generation of artists have
challenged the disciplinary frameworks of site-specific theatre.
She focuses on five distinct ways in which these artists do that:
1) blurring the traditional boundaries between the fictional and
the real; 2) changing how the audience and actor interact with each
other and whether they are physically together or apart; 3)
fabricating sites from physically bound, conceptually constructed,
or virtual spaces; 4) establishing live situations in real vs.
fiction; and 5) challenging our preconceived notions of time and
space. The first chapter outlines the book's primary goals, traces
the genealogy of site-based work through the twentieth and
twenty-first centuries, and presents the theoretical groundwork for
the book. Each subsequent chapter focuses on a particular type of
"off-site": Disciplinary Sites, Spectator Sites, Temporal Sites,
Urban Sites, and contains several case studies. Main questions
asked by this study include: How are artists and performances
engaging with site? What sites do contemporary theatre practices
engender? How does live performance negotiate such sites?
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