Theatrical Fields: Critical Strategies in Performance, Film, and Video brings together a selection of seminal texts, commisioned essays and exhibition materials that explore the political potential of ‘theatricality’. The reader stems from a long-term curatorial research examining the deep-rooted connection between theatre and theory juxtaposing artists and theoreticians from different generations and backgrounds who share a communal interest in the ‘theatricality’ as a methodology to address questions of ideology, gender, power and resistance. In this conception, ‘theatricality’ does not refer strictly only to the theatre and the theatrical arts; rather, it also points to the constructedness of everyday life. Theatrical forms make visible how our realities are staged, and also how our histories are constructed and performed.
Ute Meta Bauer
NTU CCA Signapore Theatricality Theorie