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dc.contributor.authorFelton-Dansky, Miriam
dc.date.accessioned2021-06-22T03:30:56Z
dc.date.available2021-06-22T03:30:56Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/49668
dc.description.abstractThis volume proposes the viral as a means of understanding socially engaged and transmedial performance practices since the mid-20th century. It rethinks the Living Theatre’s Artaudian revolution via the lens of affect theory, brings attention to General Idea’s media-savvy performances of the 70s, explores Franco and Eva Mattes and Critical Art Ensemble, and surveys the dramaturgies and political stakes of global theatrical networks. Viral performance practices testify that when people gather, something spreads. Performance renders spreading visible, raises its stakes, and encodes it in theatrical form. The artists explored here rarely disseminate their ideas as directly as a marketer or movement would; rather, they undermine simplified forms of contagion while holding dialogue with the discourses that have surrounded viral culture. This work argues that the concept of the viral is historically deeper than the digital landscape suggests, and intimately linked to performance.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AT Performing arts::ATD Theatre studiesen_US
dc.subject.otherPerforming Arts
dc.subject.otherTheater
dc.subject.otherHistory & Criticism
dc.titleViral Performance
dc.title.alternativeContagious Theaters from Modernism to the Digital Age
dc.typebook
oapen.relation.isPublishedByb4699693-8bd9-4982-b22e-c153becb6f4b
oapen.relation.isFundedByb818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9
oapen.relation.isbn9780810137158
oapen.collectionKnowledge Unlatched (KU)
oapen.imprintNorthwestern University Press
oapen.identifierhttps://openresearchlibrary.org/viewer/7deb3aa7-51e4-4b29-9546-f0e0a04e01d4
oapen.identifier.isbn9780810137158
grantor.number3699


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