Performance and the contemporary city: an interdisciplinary reader

Whybrow's interdisciplinary collection of urban writings demonstrates how performance is 'at work' in the city. His selection highlights both diversity andthe potential for interaction, drawing attention to the possible identities produced by the multi-faceted nature of the modern metropolis. INDICE: List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Note Preamble Introduction PART I: WALKING/THEATRES Introduction How Scratched Car Revealed the Price of a Peasant's Life; J.Watts Naples; W.Benjamin and A.Lacis Eight Fragments on Theatre and the City; T.Etchells Sleepwalking in the Modern City: Walter Benjamin and Sigmund Freud in the World of Dreams; S.Pile Moving in the Cityscape: Performance and the Embodied Experience of the Flâneur ; P.Küppers A Manifesto for a New Walking Culture: 'Dealing with the City'; Wrights and Sites PART II: DRIFTING/THINGS Introduction Situationism; C.Lavery 'The Map is not the Territory': The Unfinished Journey of the Situationist International; A.Hussey 'The Accident of Where I Live' Journeys on the Caledonian Road; R.Wentworth 'How Long I 'Been On?': Marc Dion's Performative Archaeology of the City; A.Coles What a Carry On; L.Gardner Nosing Around: A Singapore Scent Trail; P.Rae with L.K.Hong PART III: SOUNDING/RHYTHMS Introduction The Pepys of London E11: Graeme Miller and the Politics of Linked ; C.Lavery Wandering and Wondering: Following Janet Cardiff's Missing Voice; S. Gorman Attempt at Rhythmanalysis of Mediterranean Cities; H.Lefebvre and C.Régulier Rumours: A Conversation Between Francis Alÿs and James Lingwood (extract) PART IV: PLAYING/PLACE Introduction Graffiti; S.J.Smith Skating on Thin Eyes: the First Walk (extract); I.Sinclair ThePolicing of the Artist; M.Bunting Horror Vacui; U.Hofbauer and F.Derschmidt Radioballet; LIGNA Circle Line Party; Space Hijackers Paris Plage; B.Delanoë AnExplosion of Delight; G.Dyer Non-places; M.Augé All the World's a Car Park; J.Winter By Way of a Conclusion: One Place After Another (extract); M.Kwon Performing the City: Kyrysztof Wodiczko; N.Kaye PART V: VISIONING/FLOWS Introduction The Right to Participate in the Work of the Imagination; A.Appadurai Zero Tolerance, Maximum Surveillance?: Deviance, Difference and Crime Control in theLate Modern City; N.Fyfe A Nigger in Cyberspace; K.Piper Cyborg City; J.Harkin 25 Instructions for Performance in Cities; C.Lavery Bibliography Index

• ISBN: 978-0-230-52719-5
• Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 328
• Fecha Publicación: 28/05/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés