Performativity and Event in 1960s Japan considers the artists and events in 1960s Japan. In response to the social upheavals of the 1960s, it shows how art interacted with society in unique and transformational ways, nterweaving arguments about the critical role of performance as an artistic medium and as a social dramaturgy.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Table of Contents List of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Zero Jigen’s pre-expressive utopian body: ritual theory and urban transformation 2. Butoh cine dance and the remediated sixties 3. Singing Yokoo Tadanori: Ichiyanagi Toshi, The City and the Aesthetics of Listening 4. Performing Revolution at Shinjuku Plaza 5. The Osaka Exposition: Bodies and the impossible Utopia 6. Memory and city: Port B and the Tokyo Olympics Closing: Transforming everydayness Notes Bibliography
Über den Autor
Peter Eckersall teaches Theatre Studies in the School of Culture and Communication, University of Melbourne. Recent publications include Kawamura Takeshi’s Nippon Wars and Other Plays and Theatre and Performance in the Asia-Pacific: Regional Modernities in the Global Era (with Denise Varney, Barbara Hatley and Chris Hudson). He is a specialist of contemporary performance and a dramaturgy.
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