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Title:

Performance and the contemporary city : an interdisciplinary reader / edited by Nicolas Whybrow.

Publisher:

Palgrave Macmillan,

Copyright Date:

2010

Description:

xx, 301 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Theater--Anthropological aspects.
Performing arts.
Place (Philosophy) in literature.
City and town life in literature.

Other Authors:

Whybrow, Nicolas.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Nosing around : a Singapore scent trail / Paul Rae with Low Kee Hong -- Naples / Walter Benjamin and Asja Lacis ; Eight fragments on theatre and the city / Tim Etchells ; Sleepwalking in the modern city : Walter Benjamin and Sigmund Freud in the world of dreams / Steve Pile ; Moving in the cityscape : performance and the embodied experience of the Flâneur / Petra Küppers ; A manifesto for a new walking culture : dealing with the city / Wrights and Sites -- Drifting/things : situationism / Carl Lavery ; The map is not the territory : the unfinished journey of the situationist international / Andrew Hussey ; The accident of where I live : journeys on the Caledonian Road ; an interview with Joe Kerr / Richard Wentworth ; How long I 'been on? : Mark Dion's performative archaeology of the city / Alex Coles ; What a carry on / Lyn Gardner ; Nosing around : a Singapore scent trail / Paul Rae with Low Kee Hong --
one place after another / Miwon Kwon ; Wandering and wondering : following Janet Cardiff's missing voice / Sarah Gorman ; Attempt at the rhythmanalysis of Mediterranean cities / Henri Lefebvre and Catherine Régulier ; Rumours : a conversation between Francis Alÿs and James Lingwood / Francis Alÿs and James Lingwood -- Playing/place : graffiti / Susan J. Smith ; Skating on thin eyes : the first walk / Iain Sinclair ; The policing of the artist / Madeleine Bunting ; Horror vacui / Ursula Hofbauer and Friedemann Derschmidt ; Radioballett / LIGNA ; Circle line party / Space Hijackers ; Paris plage / Bertrand Delanoë ; An explosion of delight / Geoff Dyer ; Non-places / Marc Augé ; All the world's a car park / Jessica Winter ; By way of conclusion : one place after another / Miwon Kwon ;
25 instructions for performance in cities / Carl Lavery. Visioning/flows : the right to participate in the work of the imagination / Arjun Appadurai ; Zero tolerance, maximum surveillance? : deviance, difference and crime control in the late modern city / Nicholas Fyfe ; A nigger in cyberspace / Keith Piper ; Cyborg city / James Harkin ; 25 instructions for performance in cities / Carl Lavery.

ISBN:

0230527205 (pbk.)
9780230527201 (pbk.)
0230527191 (hbk.)
9780230527195 (hbk.)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)495598753

LCCN:

2010281897

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)