Event-Space

Theatre Architecture and the Historical Avant-Garde

Dorita Hannah (Tisch School of the Arts, NYU, USA), Marc Goodwin

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Routledge
11 July 2018

History of Art & Design Styles; Theory of architecture; History of architecture; Theatre Studies

As the symbolists, constructivists and surrealists of the historical avant-garde began to abandon traditional theatre spaces and embrace the more contingent locations of the theatrical and political ‘event’, the built environment of a performance became not only part of the event, but an event in and of itself.

Event-Space radically re-evaluates the avant garde’s championing of nonrepresentational spaces, drawing on the specific fields of performance studies and architectural studies to establish a theory of ‘performative architecture’.

‘Event’ was of immense significance to modernism’s revolutionary agenda, resisting realism and naturalism – and, simultaneously, the monumentality of architecture itself. Event-Space analyzes a number of spatiotemporal models central to that revolution, both illuminating the history of avant-garde performance and inspiring contemporary approaches to performance space.

By: Dorita Hannah (Tisch School of the Arts NYU USA), Marc Goodwin
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 246mm, Width: 174mm,
Weight: 920g
ISBN: 9780415832175
ISBN 10: 0415832179
Pages: 378
Publication Date: 11 July 2018
Audience: College/higher education , Primary , A / AS level
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

"PREFACE: TOWARD A THEORY OF ‘SPACING’ THROUGH AVANT-GARDE ACTION INTRODUCTION: EVENT-SPACE: A PERFORMANCE MODEL FOR ARCHITECTURE Architecture as Event Event-Space: A Useful Paradigm In Motion Space (becoming-performance of architecture) Event (becoming-architecture of performance) (Re)Birth of the Will-to-Destruction Avant-gardism and Modernism CHAPTER 1: DISCIPLINING THE BOURGEOIS GLORY MACHINE ""Our provisional theatre at Bayreuth"" The Baroque Model and Post-Revolutionary Performativity Garnier’s Architecture as Mise-en-scène The Glory Machine The Case of Bayreuth A New Public The Invisible Theatre CHAPTER 2: ABSOLUTE SPACE: UNIVERSAL LANDSCAPES ""The Beginning… The Birth…"" Absolute Stage Space Symbolist ""Theatre of the Mind"" Dancing Architectures Duncan’s Temple Spatial Rhythm and Universal Landscapes Adolphe Appia Architecture as Temple-Laboratory Hellerau Resisting the Black Void The New Monumentality of Absolute Space CHAPTER 3: ABSTRACT SPACE: TOWARD AN ARCHITECTURE OF ALIENATION The ""Troubled Art"": Avant-gardism Divided City as a ""Montage of Attractions"" Stage Space – Space Stage Bauhaus Festivities Total Theatre: The ""Great Stage Machine"" Architectures of Alienation Ghost in the Machine CHAPTER 4: ABJECT SPACE: TOWARD AN ARCHITECTURE OF CRUELTY Violence Takes Centre Stage Spatial Violence Bravo! And Boom, Boom! Abjection: eROTic Object Palace of Culture Enter Artaud (Flinging Bombs) An Architecture against Architecture A Site of Recovery Dis-eased Body Ex-ploding Space De-centring Architecture Cruel Machine CONCLUSION: MAKING ARCHITECTURE TREMBLE Nietzsche’s Architect(ure) Building Babel"

Dorita Hannah works across the spatial, visual and performing arts as a scholar and design practitioner specializing in theatre architecture and performance design. She is a Professor affiliated with the University of Auckland (New Zealand), University of Tasmania (Australia) and Aalto University (Finland).