Description
| Product ID: | 9783039105571 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | CH |
| Title: | Performing Nature |
| Subtitle: | Explorations in Ecology and the Arts |
| Authors: | Author: Gabriella Giannachi, Mr. Nigel Stewart |
| Page Count: | 437 |
| Subjects: | The arts: general topics, The arts: general issues, The Arts: art forms, Photography and photographs, Architecture, Acting techniques, Theatre: technical and background skills, Philosophy, Ecological science, the Biosphere, Art forms, Photography & photographs, Architecture, Acting techniques, Theatre: technical & background skills, Philosophy, Ecological science, the Biosphere |
| Description: | The essays in this volume explore the borderland between ecology and the arts. Nature is here read by a number of contributors as ‘cultural’, by others as an ‘independent domain’, or even as a powerful process of exchange ’between the human and the other-than-human’. The four parts of the volume reflect these different understandings of nature and performance. Informed by psychoanalysis and cultural materialism, contributors to the first part, ‘Spectacle: Landscape and Subjectivity’, look at ways in which particular social and scientific experiments, theatre and film productions and photography either reinforce or contest our ideas about nature and human-human or human-animal relations and identities. The second part, ‘World: Hermeneutic Language and Social Ecology’, investigates political protest, social practice art, acoustic ecology, dance theatre, family therapy and ritual in terms of social philosophy. Contributors to the third part, ‘Environment: Immersiveness and Interactivity’, explore architecture and sculpture, site-specific and mediatised dance and paratheatre through radical theories of urban and virtual space and time, or else phenomenological philosophy. The final part, ‘Void: Death, Life and the Sublime’, indicates the possibilities in dance, architecture and animal behaviour of a shift to an existential ontology in which nature has ‘the capacity to perform itself’. |
| Imprint Name: | Peter Lang AG |
| Publisher Name: | Peter Lang AG |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2006-01-27 |