1st Edition
Performing Violence Limits and Transformative Means in Staged Violence
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Performing Violence: What Are the Limits of Staged Violence?
Chapter 1: Violence as Instrument, Violence as Object
Chapter 2: Does Violence Have Meaning?
Chapter 3: Images and Violence
Chapter 4: Counter-Violence, the Poetics of Inadequate Performances
Chapter 5: Mapping Violence
Conclusion: The Less Violent Embodiment of Violence
References
Index
Biography
Davide Giovanzana is a theatre director, researcher and lecturer in acting at Tampere University, Finland.
Davide Giovanzana’s work at the crossroads of theater practice and theory has for more than two decades pushed for a new understanding of not just the performing arts and their research, but of excess and ethics in general. Performing Violence [work title] is a highly recommendable read for scholars and practitioners in all arts, without forgetting philosophers, who might find interest in Giovanzana’s novel way of reflecting on philosophical questions through experimental theater practice. Central for both traditional and digital theater, violence forces the audience to engage with the performance both psychologically and somatically. The topic might be a perennial one, but Giovanzana’s hand-on methods of dealing with it provide new solid results, especially helpful for the practitioner.
Max Ryynänen, Principal Lecturer, Aalto University, Department of Art and Media
