Collaboration in Performance Practice: Premises, Workings and Failures
- Submitting institution
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University of Winchester
- Unit of assessment
- 33 - Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies
- Output identifier
- 33SC1
- Type
- B - Edited book
- DOI
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10.1057/9781137462466
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- ISBN
- 9781137462466
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
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- Year of publication
- 2016
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Additional information
- Noyale Colin’s Collaboration in Performance Practice: Premises, Workings and Failures co-edited collection with Stefanie Sachsenmaier is a 100, 000 word-length peer-reviewed collection comprising of 15 Chapters. The publication examines cultural, philosophical and political issues tied to specific instances of collaborative practice in the performing-arts. The collection includes chapters by a diverse and wide range of contributors, such as emerging and established artists, scholars and educators from the United Kingdom, Germany, United States and Australia. Key questions addressed include how artists are developing new ways of working together in response to contemporary economic trends, the significance of collaborating across culture and what opportunities are apparent when co-working between genre and discipline. These perspectives are presented in three thematic sections namely (and as the title suggests) ‘Premises’, ‘Workings’ and ‘Failures’.
The relational formation and reformation of identity is at the heart of the volume. Heideggarian analysis of collaboration, opposes collaboration to collectivity and argues for a retained individual identity. Other approaches to collective endeavour are offered through different philosophical lenses (Deleuzian look at Goat Island’s rehearsal process). In another part of the book, the essays provide a broad theoretical investigation of compromises required of individual expert identity in collaboration. Other authors in the collection address the implications of these philosophical concepts, writing on historical collaborations, collaborative configurations and on the cultural, social, ethical and political implications of collaboration for individual artists involved.
Colin and Sachsenmaier co-authored the 9,000-word introduction , ‘Collaborrtive Performance Making in Context’ outlining the project’s main aims and relevant theoretical frameworks from performance and cultural theory and philosophy studies. Colin also contributed a 7,800-word chapter that discusses the shifting context of artistic labour within the contemporary digital economy and its potential for ‘remote collaboration’ and ‘expanded authorship’.
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