Performance and the Contemporary City

NICOLAS WHYBROW is Associate Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies at the University of Warwick, UK. He is the author of Street Scenes, linking Brechtian and Benjaminian ideas to an experience of contemporary Berlin, and Art and the City (I.B.Tauris, 2009).

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsNotePreambleIntroductionPART I: WALKING/THEATRESIntroductionHow Scratched Car Revealed the Price of a Peasant's Life; J.WattsNaples; W.Benjamin and A.LacisEight Fragments on Theatre and the City; T.EtchellsSleepwalking in the Modern City: Walter Benjamin and Sigmund Freud in the World of Dreams; S.PileMoving in the Cityscape: Performance and the Embodied Experience of the Flâneur; P.KüppersA Manifesto for a New Walking Culture: 'Dealing with the City'; Wrights and SitesPART II: DRIFTING/THINGSIntroductionSituationism; C.Lavery'The Map is not the Territory': The Unfinished Journey of the Situationist International; A.Hussey'The Accident of Where I Live' Journeys on the Caledonian Road; R.Wentworth'How Long I 'Been On?': Marc Dion's Performative Archaeology of the City; A.ColesWhat a Carry On; L.GardnerNosing Around: A Singapore Scent Trail; P.Rae with L.K.HongPART III: SOUNDING/RHYTHMSIntroductionThe Pepys of London E11: Graeme Miller and the Politics of Linked; C.LaveryWandering and Wondering: Following Janet Cardiff's Missing Voice; S. GormanAttempt at Rhythmanalysis of Mediterranean Cities; H.Lefebvre and C.RégulierRumours: A Conversation Between Francis Alÿs and James Lingwood (extract)PART IV: PLAYING/PLACEIntroductionGraffiti; S.J.SmithSkating on Thin Eyes: the First Walk (extract); I.SinclairThe Policing of the Artist; M.BuntingHorror Vacui; U.Hofbauer and F.DerschmidtRadioballet; LIGNACircle Line Party; Space HijackersParis Plage; B.DelanoëAn Explosion of Delight; G.DyerNon-places; M.AugéAll the World's a Car Park; J.WinterBy Way of a Conclusion: One Place After Another (extract); M.KwonPerforming the City: Kyrysztof Wodiczko; N.KayePART V: VISIONING/FLOWSIntroductionThe Right to Participate in the Work of the Imagination; A.AppaduraiZero Tolerance, Maximum Surveillance?: Deviance, Difference and Crime Control in the Late Modern City; N.FyfeA Nigger in Cyberspace; K.PiperCyborg City; J.Harkin25 Instructions for Performance in Cities; C.LaveryBibliographyIndex.

'This is essential reading for those approaching the city through the lens of live performance' - LAURA LEVIN, Assistant Professor of Theatre Studies, York University, California 'The material in this book is intellectually and poetically rich, suggestive, informative and engaging. The book ranges impressively and enticingly across different critical and creative practices, as well as from the early twentieth century to the present and to different parts of the globe.' - JEN HARVIE, Reader in Theatre and Performance, Queen Mary University of London, UK