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Liminal Acts - A Critical Overview of Contemporary Performance and Theory (Paperback, New)
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Liminal Acts - A Critical Overview of Contemporary Performance and Theory (Paperback, New)
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The term liminal refers to a marginalized space of fertile chaos
and creative potential where nothing is fixed or certain. Liminal
performance is an emerging genre which has surfaced only in recent
times and describes a range of interdisciplinary, highly
experimental, performative works in theatre and performance, film
and music-performances which can be seen to prioritize the body,
the technological and the primordial. Broadhurst argues that
traditional and contemporary critical and aesthetic theories are
ultimately deficient in interpreting liminal performance. This
revolutionary work first surveys traditional aesthetics in the
writings of Kant, Nietzsche and Heidegger and juxtaposes them with
contemporary aesthetics in the writings of Foucault, Derrida,
Baudrillard and Lyotard. A series of case studies follows and,
Broadhurst concludes with a summary description of liminal
performances as an emerging genre. Works discussed in detail
include: Pina Bausch's Tanztheater, the innovative Theatre of
Images of Robert Wilson and Philip Glass, the controversial social
sculptures of the Viennese Actionists, Peter Greenaway's painterly
aesthetics, Derek Jarman's queer politics, digitized sampled music,
and neo-gothic sound.
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