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Performance Cultures as Epistemic Cultures, Volume I: (Re)Generating Knowledges in Performance

Performance Cultures as Epistemic Cultures, Volume I: (Re)Generating Knowledges in Performance

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies

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ISBN10: 1032445696
ISBN13: 9781032445694
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Apr 7 2023
Pages: 238
Weight: 1.12
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

This volume investigates performances as situated machineries of knowing (Karin Knorr Cetina), exploring them as relational processes for, in and with which performers as well as spectators actively (re)generate diverse practices of knowing, knowledges and epistemologies.

Performance cultures are distinct but interconnected environments of knowledge practice. Their characteristic features depend not least on historical as well as contemporary practices and processes of interweaving performance cultures. The book presents case studies from diverse locations around the globe, including Argentina, Canada, China, Greece, India, Poland, Singapore, and the United States. Authored by leading scholars in theater, performance and dance studies, its chapters probe not only what kinds of knowledges are (re)generated in performances, for example cultural, social, aesthetic and/or spiritual knowledges; the contributions investigate also how performers and spectators practice knowing (and not-knowing) in performances, paying particular attention to practices and processes of interweaving performance cultures and the ways in which they contribute to shaping performances as dynamic machineries of knowing today.

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