Performance and phenomenology traditions and transformations

• Other Authors: Bleeker, Maaike (Editor), Sherman, Jon Foley, Nedelkopoulou, Eirini
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: New York Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group 2015
• Series: Routledge advances in theatre and performance studies 40
• Subjects: Performing arts > Philosophy; Theater > Philosophy
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 This book offers a timely discussion about the interventions and tensions between two contested and contentious fields, performance and phenomenology, with international case studies that map an emerging twenty-first century terrain of critical and performance practice. Building on the foundational texts of both fields that established the performativity of perception and cognition, Performance and Phenomenology continues a tradition that considers experience to be the foundation of being and meaning. Acknowledging the history and critical polemics against phenomenological methodology and against performance as a field of study and category of artistic production, the volume provides both an introduction to core thinkers and an expansion on their ideas in a wide range of case studies. Whether addressing the use of dead animals in performance, actor training, the legal implications of thinking phenomenologically about how we walk, or the intertwining of digital and analog perception, each chapter explores a world comprised of embodied action and thought.