Performance cultures as epistemic cultures. Interweaving epistemologies / Volume II, (2023)

• Record Type: Book
• Other Titles: Interweaving epistemologies
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Erika Fischer-Lichte, Torsten Jost, Milos Kosic, Astrid Schenka.
• Editors: Fischer-Lichte, Erika; Jost, Torsten, 1981-; Kosic, Milos; Schenka, Astrid
• Contents: Acknowledgments List of Figures List of Contributors Introduction: Performance Cultures as Epistemic Cultures — Developing Inter-Epistemic Approaches and Methodologies Torsten Jost PART I – Concepts, theories and methods The Cognitive Empire: Epistemic Injustices and Resurgent Decolonization Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni Principles of Interweaving Epistemologies Sundar Sarukkai Reconstituting the Destituted: How Decolonial and De-Western Interweaving Works Walter D. Mignolo PART II – Analyzing inter-epistemic performances Confronting the Colonial Matrix of Power: Critical Intersections of Interculturality and Decoloniality in Performance Practice Rustom Bharucha Staging Border Epistemologies: The Cross-Cultural Cartographies of an Artwork (Berlin, Galway, Seoul) Andrej Mirčev Performance as Method: Critical Approaches to the Western Episteme Małgorzata Sugiera PART III – Exploring inter-epistemic histories Complex Smoking: On Brecht, Tobacco and Bourgeois Philosophy Nicholas Ridout The Epistemic Politics of Indian Classical Dance Anurima Banerji Performance or "Comportamento"? Names and Epistemologies of Performance Art Tancredi Gusman Epilogue: Decolonial Aesthetics in Theater and Performance — Theatrical Strategies of Delinking Rustom Bharucha, Walter Mignolo, Torsten Jost and Christel Weiler Contributor Bios Anurima Banerji is Associate Professor at the UCLA Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance. She is author of the monograph Dancing Odissi: Paratopic Performances of Gender and State, which won the 2020 de la Torre Bueno award from the Dance Studies Association. She served as co-editor, with Violaine Roussel, of How to Do Politics with Art (2017); and with Prarthana Purkayastha, of the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Indian Dance. Her writings have appeared in the journals About Performance, EPW, Women and Performance, and the edited volumes Planes of Composition: Dance, Theory and the Global (2009), The Moving Space: Women and Dance (2018), and The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Reenactment (2017), among other publications. She was also part of a team of writers and scholars associated with the exhibition A Slightly Curving Place, presented at HKW Berlin and Alserkal Arts Foundation, Dubai. Rustom Bharucha retired as Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. He is author of many books, including Theatre and the World (Routledge, 1993), Terror and Performance (Routledge 2014), Another Asia (2006), and the upcoming Second Wave: Reflections on the Pandemic Through Photography, Performance and Public Culture (Seagull, 2022). Erika Fischer-Lichte is director of the International Research Center "Interweaving Performance Cultures" at Freie Universität Berlin. From 1973 to 1996, she was Professor of Modern German Literature, Comparative Literature and Theater Studies at the universities of Frankfurt am Main, Bayreuth and Mainz. In 1996, she joined the faculty of the Theater and Performance Studies department at Freie Universität Berlin. Between 1995 and 1999, she served as President of the International Federation for Theatre Research. She is a member of the Academia Europaea, the Academy of Sciences, Göttingen, the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in Halle, and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She has held Visiting Professorships in China, India, Japan, Russia, Norway, Brazil, and the US. Her research interests and recent as well as forthcoming publications focus on the interweaving of performance cultures in the context of historical and contemporary forms of globalization; transformative aesthetics; performances of ancient Greek tragedies since 1800 worldwide; and performance-related concepts in non-European languages. Recent monographs (in English) include: The Transformative Power of Performance: A New Aesthetics (Routledge 2008), The Routledge Introduction to Theater and Performance Studies (2014), Dionysus Resurrected: Performances of Euripides’ The Bacchae in a Globalizing World (Wiley-Blackwell 2014) and Tragedy’s Endurance: Performances of Greek Tragedies and Cultural Identity in Germany since 1800 (Oxford University Press 2017). Tancredi Gusman is Assistant Professor at the University of Rome "Tor Vergata." His research focuses on the history of theater and performance practices, addressing in particular performance and documentation, German theater and criticism, and aesthetics and theater theories. He published the monograph The Harp and the Sling: Kerr, Ihering, and the German Theatre Criticism from the End of the Nineteenth Century to National Socialism (2016; orig. Italian) and translated the Italian edition (2014) of Erika Fischer-Lichte’s The Transformative Power of Performance. He has authored book chapters and published articles in international journals such as Contemporary Theatre Review, Forum Modernes Theater and Acting Archives. Torsten Jost is a researcher and academic coordinator at the Cluster of Excellence Temporal Communities: Doing Literature in a Global Perspective at Freie Universität Berlin. After receiving his PhD from Freie Universität Berlin in 2017, he joined the faculty of the university’s Theater and Performance Studies Department, where he teaches courses in the bachelor’s and master’s degree program. In 2018, Jost was invited as a guest lecturer by the Shanghai Theater Academy, China. His dissertation, which was nominated for the Ernst- Reuter-Prize, was published by Wilhelm Fink Verlag under the title Gertrude Stein: Nervosität und das Theater (2019, Gertrude Stein: Nervousness and the Theater). Together with Erika Fischer-Lichte, he has coedited numerous books on theater and performance in German and English, including The Politics of Interweaving Performance Cultures: Beyond Postcolonialism (Routledge, 2014), Theatrical Speech Acts: Performing Language: Politics, Translations, Embodiments (Routledge, 2020), Dramaturgies of Interweaving: Engaging Audiences in an Entangled World (Routledge, 2021) and Entangled Performance Histories: New Approaches to Theater Historiography (Routledge, forthcoming). Milos Kosic studied Creative Writing at the City College of New York and English Studies at Freie Universität Berlin. He is a research associate at the International Research Center Interweaving Performance Cultures, Freie Universität Berlin, where he is working on his PhD thesis on the epistemic violence present at university-level creative writing programs across the U.S. Walter Mignolo is William H. Wannamaker Professor Emeritus of Literature at Duke University. He received his PhD from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes, Paris. Before coming to Duke in January 1993, he taught at the Universities of Toulouse, Indiana and Michigan. He has published extensively on semiotics and literary theory, and has in the past years been working on different aspects of the modern/colonial world and exploring concepts such as global coloniality, the geopolitics of knowledge, transmodernity, border thinking, and di/pluriversalities. His numerous publications include Local Histories/Global Designs (Princeton University Press, 2012), The Darker Side of Western Modernity (Duke University Press, 2011) and On Decoloniality (Duke University Press, 2018). Andrej Mirčev is a performance studies scholar, dramaturge, and visual artist. He received his PhD from Freie Universität Berlin. From 2017 to 2018, Mirčev was fellow at the International Research Center “Interweaving Performance Cultures” in Berlin. His research focuses are spatial theory, archives, intermediality, critical theory, and performance. His latest publications include Left Performance Histories (2018, coeditor) and Red People: Everything Dived (2019, coauthor)
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2023
• Extent: 1 online resource (268 pages), illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 791.01; Performing arts -- Philosophy; Knowledge, Theory of
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000865950; 9781000865905
• Related ISBNs: 9781032445717; 9781032445731
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