Putting rehearsals to the test : practices of rehearsal in fine arts, film, theater, theory, and politics / Sabeth Buchmann, Ilse Lafer, Constanze Ruhm (eds.).
Publisher:
Sternberg Press,
Copyright Date:
2016
Description:
255 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 22 cm.
"Curator Ilse Lafer ... has also been instrumental in conceiving the exhibition that has been prepared in parallel to the publication of this volume, and which took place at VOX-Centre de l'image contemporaine, Galerie Leonard & Bina Ellen--Université Concordia, and SBC Galerie d'art contemporaine, Montreal, from September to mid December, 2016."--Page 5. Includes bibliographical references.
Summary:
Although the format of the rehearsal is used across a number of disciplines?film and theater as well as fine arts?it has been scarcely considered in historical and contemporary art discourses. With this in mind, Putting Rehearsals to the Test investigates the role and function of the rehearsal as a methodology, modus operandi, medium, site of representation, and reflection on processes of artistic production. As the contributions in this book show, practices of rehearsal put those procedures?sometimes joyful, sometimes troublesome but structurally productive?into the foreground to replace given conventions and regulations with new forms and rules. Shaping working processes (the in-the-making) and products (the making-of) without defined aims and ends, artists, activists, and theorists working with strategies of rehearsal focus on moments of contingency, interruption, recommencement, irregular repetition, uncertainty, and failure within existing systems. Practices of rehearsal, in attempting to transform asymmetric labor divisions, appear as links between aesthetic judgment and social or institutional critique. This book is a critical and timely reappraisal of the methodologies of the rehearsal, and makes a claim for the aesthetic and political potential in the unfinished project.
Series:
Publication series of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna ; volume 19
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