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Itinerant Spectator/Itinerant Spectacle

Itinerant Spectator/Itinerant Spectacle

Skantze, P. a.

Paperback

Literary CriticismTheater History

ISBN10: 0615858961
ISBN13: 9780615858968
Publisher: Punctum Books
Published: Dec 20 2013
Pages: 260
Weight: 0.57
Height: 0.55 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Itinerant Spectator/Itinerant Spectacle moves across the landscape of European performance in the late 20th and early 21st centuries, recounting performance in circulation across national borders and across the itinerant bodies of spectators who travel to meet performances that travel. Itinerant Spectator/Itinerant Spectacle suggests spectating is a practice - an act of interpretation engaged in more than simply receiving the affects of a performance, a companion practice to the making of performance. The work forms a part of Skantze's ongoing explorations of what she terms the 'epistemology of practice as research.'

IS/IS theorizes spectating as a practice that extends beyond the theatre, as a practice of writing as recollecting (and recollecting as writing) at the center of what has been called criticism. The book grounds spectatorship in the subjective, embodied, differenced practice of spectating not from a fixed location or standpoint but from a ground that constantly shifts, that is, from the ground of the roving positionalities of the itinerate spectator. Following Walter Benjamin, for example, Skantze importantly adopts the privileges of the flaneur as a feminist and rather queer project, one that refuses to be tied to the minor position, to that of the impossible flaneuse.

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