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Itinerant Spectator/Itinerant Spectacl

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Itinerant Spectator/Itinerant Spectacle moves across the landscape of European performance in 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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Call Number

792 SKA i

Publisher

: ., 2013

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Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

9780615858968

Classification

792

Content Type

text

Media Type

computer

Carrier Type

online resource

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Subject(s)

Performing Arts / Theater

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Statement of Responsibility

P. A. Skantze

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umi

Source

https://openresearchlibrary.org/content/8728ed67-59e6-41ef-8312-d75eaa45791d

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