Putting Rehearsals to the Test: Practices of Rehearsal in Fine Arts, Film, Theater, Theory, and Politics [electronic resource].

Sternberg Press Academy of Fine Arts Vienna 2016

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Although the format of the rehearsal is used across a number of disciplines—film and theater as well as fine arts—it has been scarcely considered in historical and contemporary art discourses. With this in mind, Putting Rehearsals to the Test investigates the role and function of the rehearsal as a methodology, modus operandi, medium, site of representation, and reflection on processes of artistic production. As the contributions in this book show, practices of rehearsal put those procedures—sometimes joyful, sometimes troublesome but structurally productive—into the foreground to replace given conventions and regulations with new forms and rules. Shaping working processes (the in-the-making) and products (the making-of) without defined aims and ends, artists, activists, and theorists working with strategies of rehearsal focus on moments of contingency, interruption, recommencement, irregular repetition, uncertainty, and failure within existing systems. Practices of rehearsal, in attempting to transform asymmetric labor divisions, appear as links between aesthetic judgment and social or institutional critique. This book is a critical and timely reappraisal of the methodologies of the rehearsal, and makes a claim for the aesthetic and political potential in the unfinished project.
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Eva Blimlinger
Andrea B. Braidt
Karin Riegler
Sabeth Buchmann
Ilse Lafer
Constanze Ruhm
Kai van Eikels
Annemarie Matzke
Eva Könnemann
Stefanie Diekmann
Ekkehard Knörer
Rainer Bellenbaum
Christine Lang
José M. Bueso
Martin Jörg Schäfer
Avital Ronell
Kathrin Busch
Marilou Lemmens
Richard Ibghy
Susanne Leeb
Silke Otto-Knapp
Dorothea Walzer
Jenny Nachtigall
Vincent Bonin
Achim Lengerer
Stephan Geene
Martina Huber
Niamh Dunphy
Surface (Frankfurt am Main/Berlin)