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Record Nr.

UNINA9910978269803321

Titolo

The Art of Being Many : Towards a New Theory and Practice of Gathering / geheimagentur, Martin Jörg Schäfer, Vassilis S. Tsianos

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bielefeld, : transcript Verlag, 2016

ISBN

9783839433133

3839433134

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (289 p.)

Collana

Edition Kulturwissenschaft

Disciplina

000

Soggetti

Art

Activism

Democracy

Assembly

Politics

Culture

Civil Society

Social Relations

Cultural Studies

Social Movements

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter    1  Content    5  Rehearsing the Art of Being Many    9  Introduction    19  Calling Assemblies    35  The Labour and Leisure of Performing the Many    51  Consensus    61  From the People to the Many and Maybe Back? Magic.    69  Assembling Bodies in New Ecologies of Existence    77  The Art of Being Uncanny. Ligna    95  Un/Easy Resonance    103  Coming Together, Coming Apart    121  The Art of Being Many    129  Assemblies in Theatres, Biennials, Museums    149  A Clock for Assemblies    159  Tear Gas Democracy    165  Amplification and Assembly    169  Intervening in the Narrative Voice    183  Ceremonials of Gathering    193  Foreplay in Many Axioms    201  Unfinishing Legislation    213  Charter for Europe    225  Urban Panics and Black Holes    233  Open Source Finance Hacking    251  Invaders



Are Here!    267  Art & Jack-in-the-Box    275  Third Projection: Collective Film Activation    279  Enrique Flores    288

Sommario/riassunto

Since 2010 we have witnessed new ways of assembling, which have made the word »democracy« sound important again. These practices may not have led to the political changes we had hoped for. Nevertheless, we are convinced of their importance. This book wants to acknowledge them as a starting point for a new art of being many: The »many« invoke new concepts of collectivity by renegotiating their modes of participation and (self-)presentation and by rewriting rhetorical, choreographical, and material scripts of assembling. This volume is inspired and informed by the square-occupations and neighborhood assemblies of the »real democracy« movements as well as by recent explorations of the assembly form in performance art and participatory theatre.

Besprochen in:Zivilgesellschaft Info, 30.03.2017