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Grenzwerte im Spiel Die Aufführungspraxis der britischen Kompanie »Forced Entertainment«.
Artist/Author: Stefanie Husel | Reference: P2709 | ISBN: 978-3-8376-2745-9 | Type: Publication

This cross-disciplinary study draws on both Theatre Studies and Sociology to examine the performance situations of Forced Entertainment’s productions ‘Bloody Mess’ and ‘The World in Pictures’: What practices do participants employ to create  the `space` and ´characters` in a performance? In what ways do the spectators become the actual ´players` in a performance? The book contains numerous interviews with Tim Etchells, founding member and artistic director of Forced Entertainment. In German with some English texts.

ethnography performing arts postdramatic theatre sociology theatre studies

Trauma-Tragedy: Symptoms of Contemporary Performance
Artist/Author: Patrick Duggan | Reference: P2474 | ISBN: 9780719085420 | Type: Publication

Investigates the extent to which performance can represent the ‘unrepresentable’ of trauma.

audience blood bodies body catharsis Catherine Bell death Forced Entertainment Franko B Harold Pinter Kira O'Reilly mental health performance performance art Philip Pullman psychoanalytic psychology ritual ritualization Sarah Kane Sigmund Freud Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio sociology spectatorship theatre theory trauma uncanny violence

Trans Bodies, Trans Selves: A Resource for the Transgender Community
Artist/Author: Laura Erikson Schroth | Reference: P2453 | ISBN: 978-0199325351 | Type: Publication

Trans Bodies, Trans Selves is a revolutionary resource-a comprehensive, reader-friendly guide for transgender people, with each chapter written by transgender or genderqueer authors

ableism activism biology bodies body class coming out community deaf disability discrimination gender gender binary gender roles gender spectrum genderqueer heteronormativity identity immigration intersex mental health privilege psychology queer race religion sex sexuality sociology spirituality trans transgender transphobia

Visions of Excess: Selected Writings, 1927-1939
Artist/Author: Georges Bataille | Editor: Allan Stoekl | Reference: P2429 | ISBN: 9780816612833 | Type: Publication

Selected writings of French surrealist Georges Bataille.

criticism economics eroticism France French Georges Bataille literature philosophy primeval sociology surrealism text theory visceral writing

Going Public
Artist/Author: Boris Gray | Editor: Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, Anton Vidokle | Reference: P1918 | ISBN: 978-1-934105-30-6 | Type: Publication

Exploration of art from the position of the producer, who does not ask what it looks like or where it comes from, but why it exists in the first place.

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Disability
Artist/Author: Colin Barnes and Geof Mercer | Reference: P1258 | ISBN: 978-07456-2509-6 | Type: Publication

part of the Key Concepts series. This item is part of the Study Room Guide On Disability and New Artistic Models by Aaron Williamson (P1529)

health impairment nursing social policy sociology therapy

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