Mess and Contemporary Performance - Complexity, Containment, and Collapse

This book identifies and theorises mess in contemporary performance and argues that mess offers a site from which subjects might mobilise and find agency, even as the complexity (and indeed messiness) of everyday life conditions and contains.

List of contents

1. Introduction: Locating Mess 2. Mess, Materiality, and Labour 3. Holding Space: Mess, Complexity, and Containment 4. Hot Mess: Vulnerability and Exhibitionism in Performance 5. The Uses and Mis¿Uses of Mess 6. Conclusion: Mess, Exhaustion, and Collapse

About the author

Harriet Curtis is Senior Lecturer in Drama at De Montfort University, Leicester.

Summary

This book identifies and theorises mess in contemporary performance and argues that mess offers a site from which subjects might mobilise and find agency, even as the complexity (and indeed messiness) of everyday life conditions and contains.

Product details

• Authors: Harriet Curtis, Curtis Harriet
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.11.2024
• EAN: 9781032034195
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3203419-5
• No. of pages: 158
• Series: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; ART / History / General, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General, ART / Performance, History of art / art & design styles, Theatre Studies, History of Art, Performance Art, contemporary;theatre