Performance Cultures As Epistemic Cultures, Volume II - Interweaving Epistemologies

This volume investigates performance cultures as rich and dynamic environments of knowledge practice through which distinctive epistemologies are continuously (re)generated, cultivated, and celebrated.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
List of Figures
Contributor Bios
Introduction: Performance Cultures as Epistemic Cultures - Developing Inter-Epistemic Approaches and Methodologies
Torsten Jost
PART I - Concepts, theories and methods

1. The Cognitive Empire: Epistemic Injustices and Resurgent Decolonization
Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni


2. Principles of Interweaving Epistemologies
Sundar Sarukkai


3. Reconstituting the Destituted: How Decolonial and De-Western Interweaving Works
Walter D. Mignolo
PART II - Analyzing inter-epistemic performances


4. Confronting the Colonial Matrix of Power: Critical Intersections of Interculturality and Decoloniality in Performance Practice
Rustom Bharucha


5. Staging Border Epistemologies: The Cross-Cultural Cartographies of an Artwork (Berlin, Galway, Seoul)
Andrej Mir¿ev


6. Performance as Method: Critical Approaches to Western Episteme
Mägorzata Sugiera
PART III - Exploring inter-epistemic histories


7. Complex Smoking: On Brecht, Tobacco and Bourgeois Philosophy
Nicholas Ridout


8. The Epistemic Politics of Indian Classical Dance
Anurima Banerji


9. Performance or "Comportamento"? Interweaving the Names and Epistemologies of Performance Art in 1970s Italy
Tancredi Gusman


10. Epilogue: Decolonial Aesthetics in Theater and Performance - Theatrical Strategies of Delinking

Rustom Bharucha, Walter Mignolo, Torsten Jost and Christel Weiler
Index

About the author

Torsten Jost is a researcher and academic coordinator at the Cluster of Excellence "Temporal Communities: Doing Literature in a Global Perspective" at Freie Universität Berlin.
Erika Fischer-Lichte is Director of the International Research Center "Interweaving Performance Cultures" at Freie Universität Berlin.
Milos Kosic studied creative writing at the City College of New York and English Studies at Freie Universität Berlin.
Astrid Schenka is a performing arts scholar, dramaturge and translator. She currently works as a research associate at the International Research Center "Interweaving Performance Cultures" at Freie Universität Berlin as well as a guest lecturer at the Zurich University of the Arts.

Product details

• Authors: Torsten (Freie Universitat Berlin Jost
• Assisted by: Erika Fischer-Lichte (Editor), Torsten Jost (Editor), Milos Kosic (Editor), Astrid Schenka (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.04.2023
• EAN: 9781032445717
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3244571-7
• No. of pages: 268
• Series: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet