Performing Ruins / by Simon Murray

This book engages with the relationship between ruins, dilapidation, and abandonment and cultural events performed within such spaces. Following the author’s fieldwork in the UK, Bosnia Herzegovina, Poland, Germany, Greece, and Sicily, chapters describe, investigate, and reflect upon live performanc...

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Place / Publishing House:Cham : Springer International Publishing, Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020
Year of Publication:2020
Edition:1st ed. 2020
Language:English
Series:Performing Landscapes
Physical Description:XVIII, 316 Seiten; 65 Illustrationen
Notes:Enthält Literaturangaben
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction: Ruining the Project, Subjectivities, Fields and Methods
  • 2. Ruins in Context - Context in Ruins
  • 3. Performing the Antiquary: Classical Ruins in the Greek Imaginary
  • 4. Nature’s Ruins
  • 5. Dissonance and Contestation: Ruining Heritage and its Alternatives
  • 6. Legacies of War: Performing Balkan Ruins
  • 7. Ruins of Capital
  • 8. After Communism and the Cold War: a Ruined Inheritance
  • 9. Conclusion: Ruining the Ruin or Pausing at a Partial View