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9780304705863

Liminal Acts A Critical Overview of Contemporary Performance and Theory

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    9780304705863

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    0304705861

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1999-12-01
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
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Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements ix
Introduction 1(11)
The Liminal: A Preliminary View
12(14)
The Problem of Aestheticization: Kant, Nietzsche and Heidegger
26(17)
Kant
26(5)
Nietzsche
31(4)
Heidegger
35(8)
Contemporary Aesthetics
43(26)
Foucault
43(4)
Derrida
47(6)
Baudrillard
53(6)
Lyotard
59(10)
Liminal Theatre
69(40)
Tanztheater: a dancing across margins
69(13)
`Theatre of images': Einstein on the Beach
82(8)
`Synthetic fragments': Muller's Hamletmachine
90(9)
`Social sculptures': Viennese Actionism
99(10)
Liminal Film
109(30)
`Painterly' aesthetics: Prospero's Books
109(6)
Liminal politics: the `queer' aesthetics of Edward II
115(6)
Transgressing borders: Der Himmel uber Berlin/Wings of Desire
121(9)
Limits of fragmentation: Europa/Zentropa
130(9)
Liminal Music
139(29)
Digital sampling: the techno music scene
139(10)
Digitized Performance: the `acid' rave
149(3)
Destructive aesthetics: neo-gothic sound
152(16)
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds
152(6)
Einsturzende Neubauten
158(10)
Conclusion: Liminal Performance
168(12)
References 180(11)
Index 191

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