The term liminal refers to a marginalized space of fertile chaos and creative potential where nothing is fixed or certain. Liminal performance is an emerging genre which has surfaced only in recent times and describes a range of interdisciplinary; highly experimental; performative works in theatre and performance; film and music-performances which can be seen to prioritize the body; the technological and the primordial. Broadhurst argues that traditional and contemporary critical and aesthetic theories are ultimately deficient in interpreting liminal performance. This revolutionary work first surveys traditional aesthetics in the writings of Kant; Nietzsche and Heidegger and juxtaposes them with contemporary aesthetics in the writings of Foucault; Derrida; Baudrillard and Lyotard. A series of case studies follows and; Broadhurst concludes with a summary description of liminal performances as an emerging genre. Works discussed in detail include: Pina Bauschs Tanztheater; the innovative Theatre of Images of Robert Wilson and Philip Glass; the controversial social sculptures of the Viennese Actionists; Peter Greenaways painterly aesthetics; Derek Jarmans queer politics; digitized sampled music; and neo-gothic sound.
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Review
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Ok; Im biasedBy Red BaronYes; Ive known the author for years. The point is; I really enjoy this book; Ive read several chapters two or three times. The interviews; the photos; the history and analyses capture the pulse of a mass art world; inextricably entwined in the politics of South India; that few Westerners knew existed. You can see an interview of the author by the Indian novelist Manil Suri on Youtube. Preminda Jacob also maintains a website of some of the color images and interviews from the project.
