Performance and the Contemporary City An Interdisciplinary Reader

by Whybrow, Nicolas

• ISBN13: 9780230527201
• ISBN10: 0230527205
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-06-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Whybrow's interdisciplinary collection of urban writings demonstrates how performance is 'at work' in the city. His selection highlights both diversity and the potential for interaction, drawing attention to the possible identities produced by the multi-faceted nature of the modern metropolis.

Author Biography

NICOLAS WHYBROW is Associate Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies at the University of Warwick. He is editing a special issue of Research in Drama Education on site and place, and is the author of Street Scenes: Brecht, Benjamin and Berlin. He is currently writing another monograph entitled Art and the City.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. x
Acknowledgements	p. xi
Preamble	p. xvi
Introduction	p. 1
Walking/Theatres	p. 14
Introduction	p. 15
How Scratched Car Revealed the Price of a Peasant's Life	p. 26
Naples	p. 28
Eight Fragments on Theatre and the City	p. 35
Sleepwalking in the Modern City: Walter Benjamin and Sigmund Freud in the World of Dreams	p. 41
Moving in the Cityscape: Performance and the Embodied Experience of the Flâneur	p. 54
A Manifesto for a New Walking Culture: 'Dealing with the City': Wrights and Sites	p. 69
Drifting/Things	p. 87
Introduction	p. 88
Situationism	p. 92
'The Map is Not the Territory': The Unfinished Journey of the Situationist International	p. 94
'The Accident of Where I Live'-Journeys on the Caledonian Road: An Interview with Joe Kerr	p. 105
'How Long I 'Been On?' Mark Dion's Performative Archaeology of the City	p. 123
What a Carry On	p. 127
Nosing Around: A Singapore Scent Trail	p. 128
Sounding/Rhythms	p. 143
Introduction	p. 144
The Pepys of London E11: Graeme Miller and the Politics of Linked	p. 149
Wandering and Wondering: Following Janet Cardiff's Missing Voice	p. 167
Attempt at the Rhythmanalysis of Mediterranean Cities	p. 179
Rumours: A Conversation Between Francis Alÿs and James Lingwood	p. 191
Playing/Place	p. 194
Introduction	p. 195
Graffiti	p. 206
Skating on Thin Eyes: the First Walk	p. 211
The Policing of the Artist	p. 214
Horror Vacui	p. 216
Radioballett	p. 221
Circle Line Party	p. 222
Paris Plage	p. 224
An Explosion of Delight	p. 225
Non-places	p. 226
All the World's a Car Park	p. 231
By Way of a Conclusion: One Place After Another	p. 234
Performing the City	p. 237
Visioning/Flows	p. 244
Introduction	p. 245
The Right to Participate in the Work of the Imagination	p. 249
Zero Tolerance, Maximum Surveillance? Deviance, Difference and Crime Control in the Late Modern City	p. 260
A Nigger in Cyberspace	p. 277
Cyborg City	p. 283
25 Instructions for Performance in Cities	p. 286
Bibliography	p. 290
Index	p. 297
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