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Christoph Schlingensief : staging chaos, performing politics and theatrical phantasmagoria

Scheer, Anna Teresa, author

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\"This is the first book to focus specifically on the late German artist Christoph Schlingensief's theatre work, which subversively merges art, politics and everyday life to imbue his productions both inside and outside the theatre with a re-energized concept of the political in art. The book proposes the pluralistic concept of the phantasmagoria as a means to decoding Schlingensief's unique theatrical vision and examines how it achieves its political radicality, yet retains a critical ambivalence in regard to an explicitly political intention. Scheer traces Schlingensief's artistic lineage as a filmmaker with no formal training in theatre, whose work does not correspond to theoretical frameworks such as postdramatic theatre, Regietheater, or established categories of political theatre such as Brechtian, community, and agit-prop theatre. She explores how his work instead draws upon the highly performative gestures of the historical and post-Cold War avant-gardes as well the happenings and event-based practices of the sixties. Comprehensive case studies of six diverse theatrical and activist events are offered to demonstrate both the immediacy of Schlingensief's response to contemporary social and political events and his use of a range of artistic influences and different genres: Rocky Dutschke '68 (1996), Save Capitalism: Throw the Money Away! (1999) The Berlin Republic - or the Ring in Africa (1999) Hamlet (2001), Atta Atta - Art Has Broken Out! (2003) and the Church of Fear (2003)\"-- From publisher info.

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
• Subject: Schlingensief, Christoph, 1960-2010 Criticism and interpretation. / Politics and literature Germany History 20th century. / Politics and literature Germany History 21st century. / Political plays, German History and criticism. / Experimental drama History and criticism. / Performance art Germany History and criticism. / German drama 20th century History and criticism. / German drama 21st century History and criticism.
• ISBN: 9781350001053

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
PN2658.S345 S34 2018	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE