Performance StudiesGlobal and Intercultural performance(II) (pp.251-272)

Spring 2007DFLSteven Yang

Integrative Intercultural Performances

Intercultural performance comes into at least two varieties: integrative and disruptive.

Roman Catholic and its variants. Mami Wata Suzuki Tadashi, Philip Glass and Chandra

lekha (see the appendix)

Integrative Intercultural Performances (continued) Patrice Pavis: six varieties of Intercultural

Theatres. Ong Keng Sen’s Flying Circus Project. Kuo Pao Kun’s proposal for an “open c

ulture”.

Guillermo Gomez-Pena: Border Wars

Work both solo and in collaboration with Coco Fusco and Robert Sifuentes.

Fig8.15 1992-93 display in Madrid. (fig8.16) People have complex feeling to such de

monstration. The performance subverted the already

blurred boundary between ethnography, art and tourism.

Answering Globalization: New Genre Public Art

Theatres help people cope with the changes wrought by globalization.

Suzzane Lacy’s performance to give voice to people and communities often ignored. (see Lacy’s box)

Lippard and Munoz’s opinions.

Terrorism and Performances

911 attack (fig 8.18) The explosion of London’s subway

system. Some terrorists planed to bomb the

Kennedy Airport. (recent news) Terrorism has become a performance

which is televised by medias constantly around the world.