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Logomimesis

A Treatise On The Performing Body

Esa Kirkkopelto Kate Sotejeff-Wilson

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English
Routledge
18 November 2024
How can the dichotomy between body and language be overcome by means of the performing arts? What does the art of performing contribute to philosophical, ethical, and political thinking today?

This book is a study of the body and language on the stage. Inspired by contemporary artistic research and performance philosophy, Esa Kirkkopelto proposes a new understanding of embodiment that has no direct counterpart in existing philosophies of the body, in natural science, or in everyday experience. The way a performer imagines their body in performance breaks with body–language dichotomies, so language and body can be conceived as co-original phenomena, beyond their anthropomorphic framing. Once we recognize the native relationship between body and language, we can acquire an evolutive perspective which reaches beyond ontological or transcendental paradigms, towards a more linguistic and corporeal coexistence of diverse beings.

This book shows how radically different the universe appears when conceived through the performing body. It addresses artists and philosophers alike.
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Imprint:   Routledge
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 229mm,  Width: 152mm, 
Weight:   453g
ISBN:   9781032564678
ISBN 10:   1032564679
Series:   Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
Pages:   236
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Audience:   College/higher education ,  Primary
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Esa Kirkkopelto is a performance artist, philosopher, and artist researcher focusing on the deconstruction of the performing body in theory and practice. Kirkkopelto was Professor of Artistic Research at the University of the Arts Helsinki (Finland) in 2007–2018 and now holds a similar professorship at the Tampere University. He is a theatre director and founding member of the live art collective Other Spaces.

Reviews for Logomimesis: A Treatise On The Performing Body

‘’With Logomimesis Esa Kirkkopelto explores the “performing body” as both a scenic and linguistic phenomenon. Breaking with traditional subject-oriented conceptions of both the body and performance, Kirkkopelto, who studied with Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, reworks the latter’s notion of mimesis to illuminate the myriad ways in which bodies encounter each other both on stage and off. The book is unique in combining an impressive knowledge of contemporary philosophy with extensive practical experience in theater. It marks a singular and decisive contribution to contemporary critical theory – and practice.’’ Samuel Weber, Avalon Foundation Professor of Humanities at Northwestern ‘’Kirkkopelto offers us a thorough and much-needed deconstruction of “the art of the actor,” as an exemplar of the modern subject, from within the lineage of western metaphysics. The careful unpacking of the relationship between body and language brings the theatrical metaphor of the scenic into the contemporary ethical and political moment.’ Ben Spatz, University of Huddersfield


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