Bøger af Maaike Bleeker

Through a series of reflections from internationally renowned performance-makers and contextualising essays from leading theatre and performance scholars, this is the first book to map the influence of Roland Barthes on performance. The contributions are framed through Barthes's notion of The Neutral - the suspension of binary choice that offers a welcome antidote to the political deadlock of our present moment. They cover the breadth of Barthes's work from Mythologies (1957) to 'The Death of the Author' (1967), A Lover's Discourse (1977), Camera Lucida (1980), to the more recently available lecture courses at the Collège de France. Together, they capture and rethink a range of Barthes's preoccupations, from his early writing on myths and meaning to personal reflections on love, loss and desire, and interrogate the intersections between Barthes's work and contemporary theatre and performance. This book invites readers to approach Barthes's writing from a breadth of creative-critical perspectives, to become more aware of the importance of his late thought for thinking through a range of dramaturgical forms, and to become more familiar with the work of internationally significant performance practitioners.

Dieser Band taucht in unterschiedliche Archive ein und bringt Körpertechniken hervor: Eliza Steinbock findet Liebe im Lili Elbe Archiv, Europas größter Sammlung trans* und queerer Geschichte; Carmen Mörsch beschreibt, wie kunstvermittelnde Körper mehr vermitteln als nur Kunst und lädt zum Aufsetzen einer diskriminierungskritischen Brille ein. Maaike Bleeker schlüpft in die Rolle von Neo in Matrix und schiebt uns ein Datenübertragungskabel ins Rückenmark, um zu fragen, wie Körper- und Kopfwissen einander bedingen.--This volume plunges into a number of different archives and resurfaces with physical techniques: Eliza Steinbock finds love in the Lili Elbe Archive, Europe's largest collection of trans* and queer history; Carmen Mörsch describes how bodies that act as a medium for artistic expression communicate more than just art, inviting us to take a discrimination-wary view. Maaike Bleeker slips into the role of Neo in The Matrix and plugs a data-transfer cable into our spinal cord to ask how intellectual knowledge and physical knowing condition one another.

This book presents an exploration of the under-explored terrain of visuality, demonstrating the use of new theoretical insights into vision for the analysis of theatre and performance and simultaneously shows theatre and performance to be an excellent 'theoretical object' for exploring the cultural, historical and embodied character of visuality.