Performance and the contemporary city : an interdisciplinary reader / edited by Nicolas Whybrow
- Published
- Basingstoke, Hampshire [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
- Physical Description
- xx, 301 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Additional Creators
- Whybrow, Nicolas
- Contents
- Walking/theatres: How scratched car revealed the price of a peasant's life / Jonathan Watts ; Naples / Walter Benjamin and Asja Lacis ; Eight fragments on theatre and the city / Tim Etchells ; Sleepwalking in the modern city : Walter Benjamin and Sigmund Freud in the world of dreams / Steve Pile ; Moving in the cityscape : performance and the embodied experience of the Fl©Øneur / Petra K©ơppers ; A manifesto for a new walking culture : 'dealing with the city' / Wrights and Sites -- Drifting/things: Situationism / Carl Lavery ; 'The map is not the territory' : the unfinished journey of the situationist international / Andrew Hussey ; 'The accident of where I live'--journeys on the Caledonian Road : an interview with Joe Kerr / Richard Wentworth ; 'How long I 'been on?' : Mark Dion's performative archaeology of the city / Alex Coles ; What a carry on / Lyn Gardner ; Nosing around : a Singapore scent trail / Paul Rae with Low Kee Hong -- Sounding/rhythms: The Pepys of London E11 : Graeme Miller and the politics of Linked / Carl Lavery ; Wandering and wondering : following Janet Cardiff's missing voice / Sarah Gorman ; Attempt at the rhythmanalysis of Mediterranean cities / Henri Lefebvre and Catherine R©♭gulier ; Rumours : a conversation between Francis Al©s and James Lingwood / Francis Al©s and James Lingwood -- Playing/place: Graffiti / Susan J. Smith ; Skating on thin eyes : the first walk / Iain Sinclair ; The policing of the artist / Madeleine Bunting ; Horror vacui / Ursula Hofbauer and Friedemann Derschmidt ; Radioballett / LIGNA ; Circle line party / Space Hijackers ; Paris plage / Bertrand Delano©± ; An explosion of delight / Geoff Dyer ; Non-places / Marc Aug©♭ ; All the world's a car park / Jessica Winter ; By way of conclusion : one place after another / Miwon Kwon ; Performing the city : Krzysztof Wodiczko / Nick Kaye -- Visioning/flows: The right to participate in the work of the imagination / Arjun Appadurai ; Zero tolerance, maximum surveillance? : deviance, difference and crime control in the late modern city / Nicholas Fyfe ; A nigger in cyberspace / Keith Piper ; Cyborg city / James Harkin ; 25 instructions for performance in cities / Carl Lavery.
- Subject(s)
- ISBN
- 9780230527195 (hbk.)
0230527191 (hbk.)
9780230527201 (pbk.)
0230527205 (pbk.) - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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