Shifting Corporealities in Contemporary Performance: Danger, Im/mobility and Politics (Avant-Gardes in Performance)

This book investigates how contemporary artistic practices engage with the body and its intersection with political, technological, and ethical issues. Departing from the relationship between corporeality and performing arts (such as theater, dance, and performance), it turns to a pluriversal understanding of embodiment that resides in the extra violent conditions of contemporary global necro-capitalism in order to conduct a thorough analysis that goes beyond arts and culture. It brings together theoretical academic texts by established and emerging scholars alike, exposing perspectives form different fields (philosophy, cultural studies, performance studies, theater studies, and dance studies) as well as from different geopolitical contexts. Through a series of thematic clusters, the study explores the reactivation of the body as a site of a new meaning-making politics.

Marina Gržinić is a philosopher and artist who lives in Ljubljana and works in Ljubljana and Vienna. She is Professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, Austria, and a researcher at the Institute of Philosophy at the SRC SASA (Research Center of the Slovenian Academy of Science and Arts) in Ljubljana, Slovenia. She has published ten books (monographs and translations) as well as numerous influential articles in renowned academic journals.

Aneta Stojnić is a theoretician, artist, curator, and Professor of Performance and Media Theory in the Faculty of Media and Communications at Singidunum University in Belgrade, Serbia. She is currently a candidate at IPTAR Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research in New York, USA. She has published three books and numerous articles in renowned peer reviewed publications and has authored various artistic and curatorial projects across Europe.