Theatre Survey

(ProQuest: ... denotes non-US-ASCII text omitted.) Book Reviews: Edited by Kim Solga, with Sally Colwell In February 2006 Claire Bishop published her influential essay "The Social Turn: Collaboration and Its Discontents" in Artforum; in this essay, she identifies a "social turn"...

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Published in:Theatre survey 2013, Vol.54 (3), p.466
Main Author: Alston, Adam
Format: Review
Language:English
Subjects:
20th century
Aesthetics
Audiences
Bishop, Claire
Cameron, David
Collaboration
Collectivity
Negotiation
Participation
Theater
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Summary:(ProQuest: ... denotes non-US-ASCII text omitted.) Book Reviews: Edited by Kim Solga, with Sally Colwell In February 2006 Claire Bishop published her influential essay "The Social Turn: Collaboration and Its Discontents" in Artforum; in this essay, she identifies a "social turn" in contemporary art practice, and claims it evidences a "recent surge of artistic interest in collectivity, collaboration, and direct engagement with specific social constituencies" (178). Bishop redoubles Rancière's claims that "good art," firstly, "must negotiate the tension" between integrating life and art and "separat[ing] aesthetic sensoriality from other forms of sensible experience" (29-30); in adopting "Rancière's idea of art as an autonomous realm of experience," Bishop provides space to historicize participation "as a constantly moving target" (30). [...]it seems to me that while attempts to render audiences as coproducers might have become more pronounced (an observation rightly critiqued by Bishop), the rise of audiences, particularly theatre audiences, that seem to hanker after "subordination to strange experiences" has also been on the rise; the increasing popularity of immersive and one-on-one theatre, not to mention installation art, is illustrative.
ISSN:0040-5574
1475-4533
DOI:10.1017/S0040557413000410