Re-performance, mourning and death : Specters of the past 1st ed.

Author

• Julius, Sarah

Additional Author(s)

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Publisher

Cham, Switzerland : Springer International Publishing, 2021

Language

English

ISBN

9783030847746

Series

Adaptation in theatre and performance

Subject(s)

• DEATH IN ART
• GRIEF IN ART
• PERFORMING ARTS--PHILOSOPHY

Notes

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Abstract

This book examines the recent trend for re-performance and how this impacts on the relationship between live performance and death. Focusing specifically on examples of performance art the text analyses the relationship between performance, re-performance and death, comparing the process of re-performance to the process of mourning and arguing that both of these are processes of adaptation and survival. Using a variety of case studies, including performances by Ron Athey, Julie Tolentino, Martin O’Brien, Sheree Rose, Jo Spence and Hannah Wilke, the book explores performances which can be considered acts of re-performance, as well as performances which examine some of the critical concerns of re-performance, including notions of illness, loss and death. By drawing upon both philosophical and performance studies discourses the text takes a novel approach to the relationship between re-performance, mourning and death.

Physical Dimension

Number of Page(s)

1 online resource (xi, 203 p.)

Dimension

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Other Desc.

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Summary / Review / Table of Content

1. Introduction: Re-performance Now: Loss, Adaptation and Survival
2. Chapter One: Re-performance, Death, Mourning and Survival: A Theoretical Discourse
3. Chapter Two: Abjection and Memorial: Death and Finitude
4. Chapter Three: Adaptation, Echoes, Traces and Remains
5. Chapter Four: Loss and Mourning
6. Chapter Five: Re-performance, Adaptation, Legacy and the Future
7. Chapter Six: Mourning and Memorial
8. Conclusion: Adaptation, Afterlives, Survival and Re-performance

Exemplar(s)

#	Accession No.	Call Number	Location	Status
1.	00686/22	791.01 Jul R	Online !	Available