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Abstract
How has presence transformed under recent pandemic conditions and ongoing digital saturation? José Esteban Muñoz’s now classic critique of liveness illuminates the works of several contemporary Black performance artists whose work intervenes against the corporeal burdens of our moment.
期刊介绍:
TDR traces the broad spectrum of performances, studying performances in their aesthetic, social, economic, and political contexts. With an emphasis on experimental, avant-garde, intercultural, and interdisciplinary performance, TDR covers performance art, theatre, dance, music, visual art, popular entertainments, media, sports, rituals, and the performance in and of politics and everyday life. Each fully illustrated issue includes: -Articles on theatre, dance, popular entertainments, rituals, politics, and social life: the whole broad spectrum of performance -Original contributions to performance theory -Editorial comments, critical analysis, and book reviews -Articles by social scientists, cultural commentators, theorists, artists, scholars, and critics -Interviews with performers, choreographers, directors, composers, and performance artists -Texts of performance works -Translations of important new and decisive archival writings on performance