Performance and Phenomenology: Traditions and Transformations

This book offers a timely discussion about the interventions and tensions between two contested and contentious fields, performance and phenomenology, with international case studies that map an emerging twenty-first century terrain of critical and performance practice. Building on the foundational texts of both fields that established the performativity of perception and cognition, Performance and Phenomenology continues a tradition that considers experience to be the foundation of being and meaning. Acknowledging the history and critical polemics against phenomenological methodology and against performance as a field of study and category of artistic production, the volume provides both an introduction to core thinkers and an expansion on their ideas in a wide range of case studies. Whether addressing the use of dead animals in performance, actor training, the legal implications of thinking phenomenologically about how we walk, or the intertwining of digital and analog perception, each chapter explores a world comprised of embodied action and thought. The established and emerging scholars contributing to the volume develop insights central to the phenomenological tradition while expanding on the work of contemporary theorists and performers. In asking why performance and phenomenology belong in conversation together, the book suggests how they can transform each other in the process and what is at stake in this transformation. Additional ISBNs0815376502, 9780815376507, 1315752360, 1317617932, 1317617924, 1317617916, 9781315752365, 9781317617938, 9781317617921, 9781317617914Performance and Phenomenology: Traditions and Transformations 1st Edition is written by Bleeker, Maaike; Foley Sherman, Jon; Nedelkopoulou, Eirini and published by Routledge. ISBNs for Performance and Phenomenology are 9781317617921, 1317617924 and the print ISBNs are 9781138805514, 1138805513. Additional ISBNs include 0815376502, 9780815376507, 1315752360, 1317617932, 1317617924, 1317617916, 9781315752365, 9781317617938, 9781317617921, 9781317617914.