Performing Immanence

Jan Suk

Published by De Gruyter 2021

Performing Immanence

Forced Entertainment

Jan Suk

Volume 29 in the series Contemporary Drama in English Studies

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110710991

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About this book

Performing Immanence: Forced Entertainment is a unique probe into the multi-faceted nature of the works of the British experimental theatre Forced Entertainment via the thought of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari.
Jan Suk explores the transformation-potentiality of the territory between the actors and the spectators, namely via Forced Entertainment’s structural patterns, sympathy provoking aesthetics, audience integration and accentuated emphasis of the now. Besides writings of Tim Etchells, the company’s director, the foci of the analyses are devised as well as durational projects of Forced Entertainment. The examination includes a wider spectrum of state-of the-art live artists, e.g. Tehching Hsieh, Franko B or Goat Island, discussed within the contemporary performance discourse.
Performing Immanence: Forced Entertainment investigates how the immanent reading of Forced Entertainment’s performances brings the potentiality of creative transformative experience via the thought of Gilles Deleuze. The interconnections of Deleuze’s thought and the contemporary devised performance theatre results in the symbiotic relationship that proves that such readings are not mere academic exercises, but truly life-illuminating realizations.

First solo-author monograph dedicated chiefly to the work of Forced Entertainment
Interconnection of performance and philosophy
Philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari in the context of contemporary experimental theatre

Author information

Jan Suk, University of Hradec Králové, Czech Republic.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Copyright Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	IX
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	XI
1 Theatre & In-Between Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2 Deleuze & Performance Theatre Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	33
3 Immanence and Tim Etchells’s Prose Texts Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	62
4 Devised and Durational Performances of Forced Entertainment Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	100
5 Durational Performances of Forced Entertainment Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	141
6 Performing Immanence: Theatre of Forced Entertainment Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	173
Works Cited Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	179
List of Illustrations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	189
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	190

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Academics (Theatre and English Studies), Libraries, Institutes
Pages
- Front matter: 12
- Main content: 194
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 7
Keywords: forced entertainment; immanence; Deleuze; performance

eBook

Published: January 18, 2021
ISBN: 9783110710991

Hardcover

Published: January 18, 2021
ISBN: 9783110710953