{"product_id":"placeness-and-the-performative-production-aleksandar-sasha-dundjerovic-9781350349810","title":"Placeness and the Performative Production of Space","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHow can performance create and transform places of urban renewal and regeneration? What does performance contribute to the creation of community? These are some of the questions addressed in this study of the relationship of performance to urban space.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Marrying theory with a series of international case studies of performance practice and interviews with practitioners, this interdisciplinary study examines how space is performatively produced to create a sense of 'placeness'. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Offering multiple perspectives on space and place, this book investigates the connections between space and the construction of social and cultural narratives. It focuses on the multiple ways performative actions produce space, including theatre, installations, site-specific work, visual arts and digital performance. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Combining interdisciplinary approaches to contemporary performance, architecture and digital media studies, this study builds on a clear theoretical framework that draws on the work of Walter Benjamin, Michel Foucault, Henri Lefevre, Richard Schechner, Hans-Thies Lehmann, Lev Manovich and Slavoj Zizek. It offers themed sections comprising theory, studies of practice and interviews with practitioners. Case studies include site-specific work by Catalan collective La Fura Dels Baus, Barcelona, Spain, the Prague Quadrennial, community engagement in Pra?a Roosevelt in Sao Paulo, Brazil, the Portland Inn Project in Stoke-on-Trent, UK, Campo de la Cebada in Madrid, Spain, and digital spaces created by artists in India and Bosnia and Herzegovina.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Aleksandar Sasha Dundjerovic, Mar?a Jos? Mart?nez S?nchez\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 135034981X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781350349810\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Methuen Drama\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/03\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 216\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Aleksandar Sasha Dundjerovic","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46431691014399,"sku":"9781350349810","price":115.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_848b4ba7-4438-42f7-8877-b4bc7266559c.jpg?v=1735142099","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/placeness-and-the-performative-production-aleksandar-sasha-dundjerovic-9781350349810","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}