Event-Space
Theatre Architecture and the Historical Avant-Garde
1st Edition
Published on 12. July 2018
Book
Hardback
378 pages
978-0-415-83216-8 (ISBN)
Description
As the symbolists, constructivists and surrealists of the historical avant-garde began to abandon traditional theatre spaces and embrace the more contingent locations of the theatrical and political 'event', the built environment of a performance became not only part of the event, but an event in and of itself.
Event-Space radically re-evaluates the avant garde's championing of nonrepresentational spaces, drawing on the specific fields of performance studies and architectural studies to establish a theory of 'performative architecture'.
'Event' was of immense significance to modernism's revolutionary agenda, resisting realism and naturalism - and, simultaneously, the monumentality of architecture itself. Event-Space analyzes a number of spatiotemporal models central to that revolution, both illuminating the history of avant-garde performance and inspiring contemporary approaches to performance space.
Event-Space radically re-evaluates the avant garde's championing of nonrepresentational spaces, drawing on the specific fields of performance studies and architectural studies to establish a theory of 'performative architecture'.
'Event' was of immense significance to modernism's revolutionary agenda, resisting realism and naturalism - and, simultaneously, the monumentality of architecture itself. Event-Space analyzes a number of spatiotemporal models central to that revolution, both illuminating the history of avant-garde performance and inspiring contemporary approaches to performance space.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 246 mm
Width: 174 mm
Weight
900 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-415-83216-8 (9780415832168)
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Dorita Hannah works across the spatial, visual and performing arts as a scholar and design practitioner specializing in theatre architecture and performance design. She is a Professor affiliated with the University of Auckland (New Zealand), University of Tasmania (Australia) and Aalto University (Finland).
Content
PREFACE:
TOWARD A THEORY OF 'SPACING' THROUGH AVANT-GARDE ACTION
INTRODUCTION: EVENT-SPACE: A PERFORMANCE MODEL FOR ARCHITECTURE
Architecture as Event
Event-Space: A Useful Paradigm In Motion
Space (becoming-performance of architecture)
Event (becoming-architecture of performance)
(Re)Birth of the Will-to-Destruction
Avant-gardism and Modernism
CHAPTER 1: DISCIPLINING THE BOURGEOIS GLORY MACHINE
"Our provisional theatre at Bayreuth"
The Baroque Model and Post-Revolutionary Performativity
Garnier's Architecture as Mise-en-scene
The Glory Machine
The Case of Bayreuth
A New Public
The Invisible Theatre
CHAPTER 2: ABSOLUTE SPACE: UNIVERSAL LANDSCAPES
"The Beginning... The Birth..."
Absolute Stage Space
Symbolist "Theatre of the Mind"
Dancing Architectures
Duncan's Temple
Spatial Rhythm and Universal Landscapes
Adolphe Appia
Architecture as Temple-Laboratory
Hellerau
Resisting the Black Void
The New Monumentality of Absolute Space
CHAPTER 3: ABSTRACT SPACE: TOWARD AN ARCHITECTURE OF ALIENATION
The "Troubled Art": Avant-gardism Divided
City as a "Montage of Attractions"
Stage Space - Space Stage
Bauhaus Festivities
Total Theatre: The "Great Stage Machine"
Architectures of Alienation
Ghost in the Machine
CHAPTER 4: ABJECT SPACE: TOWARD AN ARCHITECTURE OF CRUELTY
Violence Takes Centre Stage
Spatial Violence
Bravo! And Boom, Boom!
Abjection: eROTic Object
Palace of Culture
Enter Artaud (Flinging Bombs)
An Architecture against Architecture
A Site of Recovery
Dis-eased Body
Ex-ploding Space
De-centring Architecture
Cruel Machine
CONCLUSION: MAKING ARCHITECTURE TREMBLE
Nietzsche's Architect(ure)
Building Babel
TOWARD A THEORY OF 'SPACING' THROUGH AVANT-GARDE ACTION
INTRODUCTION: EVENT-SPACE: A PERFORMANCE MODEL FOR ARCHITECTURE
Architecture as Event
Event-Space: A Useful Paradigm In Motion
Space (becoming-performance of architecture)
Event (becoming-architecture of performance)
(Re)Birth of the Will-to-Destruction
Avant-gardism and Modernism
CHAPTER 1: DISCIPLINING THE BOURGEOIS GLORY MACHINE
"Our provisional theatre at Bayreuth"
The Baroque Model and Post-Revolutionary Performativity
Garnier's Architecture as Mise-en-scene
The Glory Machine
The Case of Bayreuth
A New Public
The Invisible Theatre
CHAPTER 2: ABSOLUTE SPACE: UNIVERSAL LANDSCAPES
"The Beginning... The Birth..."
Absolute Stage Space
Symbolist "Theatre of the Mind"
Dancing Architectures
Duncan's Temple
Spatial Rhythm and Universal Landscapes
Adolphe Appia
Architecture as Temple-Laboratory
Hellerau
Resisting the Black Void
The New Monumentality of Absolute Space
CHAPTER 3: ABSTRACT SPACE: TOWARD AN ARCHITECTURE OF ALIENATION
The "Troubled Art": Avant-gardism Divided
City as a "Montage of Attractions"
Stage Space - Space Stage
Bauhaus Festivities
Total Theatre: The "Great Stage Machine"
Architectures of Alienation
Ghost in the Machine
CHAPTER 4: ABJECT SPACE: TOWARD AN ARCHITECTURE OF CRUELTY
Violence Takes Centre Stage
Spatial Violence
Bravo! And Boom, Boom!
Abjection: eROTic Object
Palace of Culture
Enter Artaud (Flinging Bombs)
An Architecture against Architecture
A Site of Recovery
Dis-eased Body
Ex-ploding Space
De-centring Architecture
Cruel Machine
CONCLUSION: MAKING ARCHITECTURE TREMBLE
Nietzsche's Architect(ure)
Building Babel