André Bastian

Staging Elfriede Jelinek in Australia: Poetics - Ethics - Politics, m. 2 DVDs

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Produktbeschreibung

The study at hand discusses comprehensively a range of poetical, ethical and political questions involved in the staging of Elfriede Jelinek's Princess Dramas [Prinzessinnendramen] as the Austrian Nobel Prize for Literature winner's first work on the Australian stage. Introducing the 'poetic of an arriving artist' as a productive approach to staging Jelinek's plays internationally, the author of this study, and director of the production, consequently scrutinises this poetic's grounding in a poststructural reconception of the 'palimpsest' as a dramaturgical figure of thought. He points to the danger of unintentionally causing disempowering effects through emancipatory strategies of empowerment and eventually comes up with a series of timely proposals for effective and responsible artistic activity in 21st century immigration societies of an ever-globalising world. Engaging with Jelinek's mythoclastic work serves thus as a highly relevant springboard for giving new impulses to current debates on artistic freedom, political correctness, diasporic art production and Australian discourses of indigeneity.

Produktdetails

• Transpositionen: Australische Studien zur deutschen Literatur, Philosophie und Kultur / Transpositions:
• Verlag: Röhrig
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Mai 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 215mm x 158mm x 31mm
• Gewicht: 680g
• ISBN-13: 9783861105992
• ISBN-10: 3861105993
• Artikelnr.: 45180213

Autorenporträt

ANDRÉ BASTIAN studied Performance Studies and Spanish Philology in Melbourne (Australia) and Granada (Spain). He is a theatre practitioner (director, dramaturge, author, translator) and theorist and earned his doctorate at Monash University in Melbourne (Australia).

Inhaltsangabe

CONTENT Staging Elfriede Jelinek in Australia - Preliminary RemarksPart One: Before the Staging - The Aesthetics (or Poetics) of Staging a PlayI. The 'Poetics of an Arriving Artist'1. Creative homesickness as a motor for cultural transfer2. Elfriede Jelinek as an 'unknown' literary celebrity3. From 'intertextuality' to 'palimpsest'4. Re-framing 'relevance', re-focussing 'audience', re-naming 'actance'Part Two: The ProductionThe Materiality of the PerformanceII. DVD 1: Princess Dramas [Full Run]1. Credits2. Music and video projections in order of appearanceIII. DVD 2: Princess Dramas [Additional Material]1. Track descriptionsPart Three: After the Staging - Ethics (and Politics) of Staging a PlayIV. Staging Jelinek's Princess Dramas in Australia - Dangerous Decisions and Multiple Circumstances1. Artistic statement and ethical implications2. Theatre as a powerful place for 'radical democracy'3. Decisions and their context(s) - Staging Princess Dramas in Melbourne (Australia)4. The mise-en-scène/staging or die Inszenierung5. Ethical dangers - Violence and "the right thing to do"6. Policies, subsidies and necessitiesV. 'The Artist' as (Civilising) Leader or (Moral) Outlaw - The Self-Image as Theatre Maker at the Intersection of Philosophy, Law and Politics1. Relevance as a product of self-description - From the artist as representative of a universal entity to art as a social system2. The instability of democratic values - Self-censorship and artistic decisionsVI. A Conclusion and an Afterthought - Arriving as Palimpsestuous Process1. Conclusion: The role of the artist in liberal democracy2. An afterthought: Destabilising without erasingList of Works Cited