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Informationen zum Autor Harry Wilson is Lecturer in Digital Theatre and Performance-Making in the Theatre Department and co-programme director of the MA Immersive Arts at the University of Bristol, UK. He is co-editor of Rethinking Roland Barthes Through Performance (Methuen Drama, 2023). His research focuses on interdisciplinary explorations of live art and performance, photography, documentation, digital art and new media through critical theory and artistic research. Will Daddario is a teacher, scholar, grief worker and itinerant philosopher who currently resides in Asheville, NC. He co-edits the Performance Philosophy book series and online journal. Klappentext 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. Vorwort The first book to map the influence of Roland Barthes on performance, through a series of reflections from internationally renowned performance-makers and contextualising essays from leading theatre and performance scholars. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Figures Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction: Contemporary Performance After Roland Barthes – Harry Robert WilsonPart 1 – A Dictionary of Twinklings1. 5 Theses for a Dramaturgy of Performance – Matthew Goulish and Lin Hixson2. Ceaselessly Positing and Evaporating Meaning: A Performance Score – Pablo Pakula3. Looking Through Old Photographs – Andy Field and Deborah Pearson4. Recipes / A...
