Mess and Contemporary Performance
Complexity, Containment, and Collapse
Series: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies;
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher Routledge
- Date of Publication 19 November 2024
- ISBN 9781032034195
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages168 pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Weight 453 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 23 Illustrations, black & white; 23 Halftones, black & white 613
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Short description:
This book identifies and theorises mess in contemporary performance and argues that mess offers a site from which subjects might mobilise and find agency, even as the complexity (and indeed messiness) of everyday life conditions and contains.
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This book identifies and theorises mess in contemporary performance and argues that mess offers a site from which subjects might mobilise and find agency, even as the complexity (and indeed messiness) of everyday life conditions and contains.
Using a queer feminist and intersectional critical framework, this book analyses how established and emerging artists mess with and mess up capitalist tendencies towards productivity, usefulness, and efficiency. Whilst the materiality of mess provides a starting point and emerges in many of the works analysed, the implications of mess as related to vulnerability, shame, and resistance occupy a larger space in the book’s chapters. These performances are messy not only in content or style; they reveal critical readings of how perceived-as messy' subjects and practices are shaped and regulated. In attending to the public, personal, and structural uses of mess, and emphasising the critical possibilities of what might otherwise be skipped over or cleared away, this book develops and opens out shared understandings of mess as creative chaos and as a practice of political action or change.
This book will be of particular interest to students and scholars incontemporary theatre, art, and performance.
MoreTable of Contents:
1. Introduction: Locating Mess 2. Mess, Materiality, and Labour 3. Holding Space: Mess, Complexity, and Containment 4. Hot Mess: Vulnerability and Exhibitionism in Performance 5. The Uses and Mis‑Uses of Mess 6. Conclusion: Mess, Exhaustion, and Collapse
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