Chora-graphy and Performative Arts: interweaving and co-existing of space and body in the turn of the 21st century | French: Chôra-graphie (Mise en espace) et Αrts Performatifs : entrelacement et coexistence de l'espace et du corps aux débuts du XXIe siècle.

Doctoral Dissertation uoadl:2903804 645 Read counter

Unit:
Department of Communication and Media Studies
Library of the Faculties of Political Science and Public Administration, Communication and Mass Media Studies, Turkish and Modern Asian Studies, Sociology
Deposit date:
2020-04-30
Year:
2020
Author:
Volanakis Adonis
Dissertation committee:
Καλλιόπη Ρηγοπούλου, Ομότιμη Καθηγήτρια, Τμήμα Επικοινωνίας & ΜΜΕ. ΕΚΠΑ (επιβλέπουσα)
Μανιάτης Γεώργιος, Ομότιμος Καθηγητής, Τμήμα Επικοινωνίας & ΜΜΕ. ΕΚΠΑ
Κατζουράκης Κυριάκος, Ομότιμος Καθηγητής, Τμήμα Εικαστικών και Εφαρμοσμένων Τεχνών, ΑΠΘ
Χρυσόθεμις Σταματοπούλου - Βασιλάκου, Καθηγήτρια, Τμήμα Θεατρικών Σπουδών, ΕΚΠΑ
Αριάδνη Βοζάνη, Αναπληρώτρια Καθηγήτρια, Σχολή Αρχιτεκτόνων Μηχανικών, ΕΜΠ
Αικατερίνη Σαβράμη, Αναπληρώτρια Καθηγήτρια, Τμήμα Θεατρικών Σπουδών, Πανεπιστήμιο Πατρών
Κωνσταντίνα Καλαρά, Επίκουρη Καθηγήτρια, Τμήμα Αρχιτεκτόνων Μηχανικών, ΑΠΘ
Original Title:
Χωρογραφία και Επιτελεστικές Τέχνες: συν-υφάνσεις και συν-υπάρξεις χώρου και σώματος από τον 20ό στον 21ο αιώνα.
Languages:
Greek
Translated title:
Chora-graphy and Performative Arts: interweaving and co-existing of space and body in the turn of the 21st century | French: Chôra-graphie (Mise en espace) et Αrts Performatifs : entrelacement et coexistence de l'espace et du corps aux débuts du XXIe siècle.
Summary:
The subject of this doctoral thesis is the multiple meeting spaces of practices from the performing and visual arts as it is manifested at the beginning of the 21st century, in the western world, and their description by the term "chora-graphy". In this term coexist the two key concepts of the present thesis: the space (through the first constituent, "chora-"), and the in-scription of the bodies of the artists and/or of the spectators. In the introduction we unravel the threads that constitute the theoretical and research framework, so that the reader comprehends the approach mechanism and the operating methodology adopted for the space-body-viewer triangle. For the analysis of chora-graphy, we connect it with Performance Studies and its broader phenomena in art as well as with spatial theories.
Since chora-graphy can be defined as a practice of interweaving –performing arts (theater, opera, contemporary dance), and visual arts (performance, installation, social sculpture) function vertically as threads, as a warp while horizontally, almost as a weft, they are associated with concepts and practices such as the ritual as a maternal origin, ancient tragedy, the meeting of bodies, opening a space that leads to hospitality, walking practice, dialogue, experience of time, manifestations of Greekness, co-learning, the alternation of the attributes and roles of artists and spectators– in the main body of the dissertation we study works as nodes.
In regards to the performing arts we focus at: a text-based theater where the performers act without directorial instructions (J. Kokkos); the transforming sculptural installation for a series of various opera performances (St. Lazaridis); in contemporary dance, works in transitional spaces of a museum (M. Hassabi), and the practice of walking in an archeological site (T. Sehgal). As to the visual arts, we study two performance works: in the first, the body in pain is exposed parallel to the bodies of the viewers in a museum (Franco B); in the second, the artist moving in the urban fabric, recalls and produces spatial memories (L. Papakonstantinou). Later on, regarding the visual installation, we focus the research (J. Kounellis) on a project / meeting place between living species (human-animal). Finally, we analyze a social sculpture / creation center (Victoria Square Project) that is materialized by, with and for communities.
The "dance" of chora-graphy, from one practice to another and vice versa, captures after all another type of “tribe” of artists, which is characterized by a desire to meet the viewer/ visitor and open spaces for common, ephemeral co-habitation. In continuation of the present research, we propose a chora-graphical framework of education / teaching in Greece.
Main subject category:
Social, Political and Economic sciences
Other subject categories:
Fine arts - Entertainment
Keywords:
Mise-en-espace, chora-graphy, performative arts, visual arts, body, space, spectator, time, ritual, expanded scenography, performance, installation art, theatre, opera, contemporary dance, ancient tragedy, collaboration, social sculpture, phenomenology, community based art, hospitality, walking practice.
Index:
No
Number of index pages:
0
Contains images:
Yes
Number of references:
432
Number of pages:
417
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