Autobiography of a Performance: Scores, Essays and Reflections - Couverture souple

Kapil, Bhanu; Pieta, Blue

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1068751592 ISBN 13 : 9781068751592

Editeur : The 87 Press, 2025

Synopsis

This co-authored work focuses on five performances developed by Blue Pieta, a multidisciplinary artist, director, dramaturg and performer and Bhanu Kapil, a poet, between 2022 and 2025. A public notebook of working scores and performance writing, AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A PERFORMANCE contains analytic depictions of shared time experienced during performance, notes on dramaturgy and applause, and thinking towards performance as a mode of inter-generational healing (borderwork). This hybrid collection studies performance as a place both unknown and emergent, the rough sketch that's always incomplete, carried over to the next performance, and always in the company of radical others of many kinds. Both writers also change roles during the course of a performance, a mode of autobiography that most closely resembles mutation. A dramaturg is also an artist, a dancer, the poet of the work. A poet stands up from the table where they are seated to enter the domain of gesture and movement. Pieta and Kapil decompress an interoceptive approach to poetry, memory and ritual awareness: scenes that can't be written, but only staged.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Bhanu Kapil is an Extraordinary Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge. A former Judith E. Wilson Poetry Fellow of the University of Cambridge, she is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. She has been awarded a Windham-Campbell Prize from Yale University and a Cholomondeley Award from the Society of Authors, both for poetry. Her most recent book of poetry, How To Wash A Heart (Pavillion Poetry) won the TS Eliot Prize.

Blue Pieta is a multidisciplinary artist, dramaturg, director and performer. They were dramaturg for Akram Khan Company’s production Thikra: Night of Remembering (2025) and musical operetta Nine Songs directed by Farooq Chaudhry OBE with musical direction by Jocelyn Pook. Their art has been featured in exhibition programming by Serpentine Galleries, Courtauld Gallery, Britten Pears Arts, and staged at The Place, Battersea Arts Centre and Royal Court Theatre.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The 87 Press
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1068751592
• ISBN 13: 9781068751592
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 123
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