Re-Performance, Mourning and Death

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Re-Performance, Mourning and Death

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Author: Sarah Julius

Type: PAPERBACK

ISBN: 9783030847760

Date: 1st November, 2022

Publisher: PALGRAVE MACMILLAN

  1. Categories

  2. Theatre Studies
  3. Performing Arts
  4. Actors and Performers

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This book examines the recent trend for re-performance and how this impacts on the relationship between live performance and death. Focusing specifically on examples of performance art the text analyses the relationship between performance, re-performance and death, comparing the process of re-performance to the process of mourning and arguing that both of these are processes of adaptation and survival. Using a variety of case studies, including performances by Ron Athey, Julie Tolentino, Martin O'Brien, Sheree Rose, Jo Spence and Hannah Wilke, the book explores performances which can be considered acts of re-performance, as well as performances which examine some of the critical concerns of re-performance, including notions of illness, loss and death. By drawing upon both philosophical and performance studies discourses the text takes a novel approach to the relationship between re-performance, mourning and death.

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