Overview

The work of acclaimed German artist Christoph Schlingensief spans three decades and a diverse range of fields, including, film, television, activism, opera, and theatre. Christoph Schlingensief: Art Without Borders is the first book to be published in English on Schlingensief’s groundbreaking, politically engaged body of work. Leading scholars in the field offer a critical assessment of Schlingensief’s hybrid practice, and an interview with Schlingensief himself provides the reader with insight into past and present projects. The book will be an essential resource for artists, curators, students, and academics in the fields of theater and performance studies, film studies, cultural studies, German studies, political activism, and art history.

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Author:   Tara Forrest ,  Anna Teresa Scheer
Publisher:   Intellect
Imprint:   Intellect Books
Dimensions:   Width: 17.80cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.386kg
ISBN:  

9781841503196

ISBN 10:   1841503193
Pages:   176
Publication Date:   15 August 2010
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Foreword – Alexander Kluge Background, Inspiration, Contexts – Tara Forrest and Anna Teresa Scheer Chapter One: The Tunguska Manifesto: Schlingensief’s Critique of Film and the Restitution of Experience – Richard Langston Chapter Two: An Obscene Reckoning: History and Memory in Schlingensief’s Deutschlandtrilogie – Kristin T. Vander Lugt Chapter Three: Theatre of Self-Questioning: Rocky Dutschke, ’68, or the Children of the Revolution – Sandra Umathum Chapter Four: Passion Impossible or Man with a Mission: A Go! manesque Intervention – Anna Teresa Scheer Chapter Five: Putting the Public Sphere to the Test: On Publics and Counter-Publics in Chance 2000 – Solveig Gade Chapter Six: ‘Right now Austria looks ridiculous’: Please Love Austria! – Reforging the Interaction between Art and Politics – Denise Varney Chapter Seven: Productive Discord: Schlingensief, Adorno, and Freakstars 3000 – Tara Forrest Chapter Eight: The Fusion and Confusion of Art and Terror(ism): ATTA ATTA – Brechtje Beuker Chapter Nine: Media Play: Intermedial Satire and Parodic Exploration in Elfriede Jelinek and Christoph Schlingensief’s Bambiland – Morgan Koerner Chapter Ten: Schlingensief’s Animatograph: Time Here Becomes Space – Roman Berka Chapter Eleven: Citizen of the Other place: A Trilogy of Fear and Hope – Florian Malzacher Chapter Twelve: Blurring Boundaries/Changing Perspectives: An Interview with Christoph Schlingensief – Florian Malzacher

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Tara Forrest is Senior Lecturer in Cultual Studies, University of Technology, Sydney. Anna Teresa Scheer is a performer and director who worked at key theatres in Berlin including the Volksbuhne where Christoph Schlingensief was engaged as an in-house director. She moved back to Australia in 2007 where she is completing her MA thesis on his work.

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