Learning How to Fall
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-79689-8 (ISBN)
Does the mediatization of the event overwhelm the fact of the event itself?
How does the mode by which information is disseminated alter the way in which we perceive such information?
How does this impact upon our memory of an event?
T. Nikki Cesare Schotzko posits contemporary art and performance as not only a stylized re-envisioning of daily life but, inversely, as a viable means by which one might experience and process real-world political and social events. This approach combines two concurrent and contradictory trends in aesthetics, narrative, and dramaturgy: the dramatization of real-world events so as to broaden the commercial appeal of those events in both mainstream and alternative media, and the establishment of a more holistic relationship between politically and aesthetically motivated modes of disseminating and processing information.
By presenting engaging and diverse case studies from both the art world and popular culture – including Aliza Shvarts’s censored senior thesis at Yale University, Kerry Skarbakka’s provocative photographs of falling, Didier Morelli’s crawl through Toronto, and Aaron Sorkin’s The Newsroom – Learning How to Fall creates a new understanding of the relationship between the event and its documentation, where even the truth of an event might be called into question.
T. Nikki Cesare Schotzko is an Assistant Professor in the Centre for Drama, Theatre, and Performance Studies at the University of Toronto.
Epigraph
Dedication
List of Illustrations
Additional Citations
Acknowledgments
Preface Always Ever Falling
Introduction The Economy of the Event
Chapter One If Not Falling Then Flying: Richard Drew’s Falling Man and The Politics of Witnessing
Chapter Two The Untruth of Style: From Abramović to Bradshaw and Back Again
Chapter Three Not Yet Finished, Never Yet Begun: Aliza Shvarts, the Girl from West Virginia, and the Consequence of Doubt
Chapter Four Speaking Truth to Stupid: Aaron Sorkin’s Episode "5/1" and the Reassignment of Truth
Chapter Five How Time Flies: A Chronometry of the Fall
Afterword Afterword, After Phelan: Notes on Love, for My Students
Index
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 12.12.2014 |
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Zusatzinfo | 10 Halftones, black and white |
Verlagsort | London |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 138 x 216 mm |
Gewicht | 272 g |
Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile |
Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft | |
ISBN-10 | 1-138-79689-1 / 1138796891 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-138-79689-8 / 9781138796898 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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