A Short Disquisition on Anatopia: Rethinking Place and Its Performance
A Short Disquisition on Anatopia: Rethinking Place and Its Performance
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关于Anatopia的简短论文:重新思考场所及其表现
DOI:
10.1080/10486801.2020.1812592
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发表时间:
2020
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0.3
通讯作者:
Mackey S
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作者:
Mackey S
Arising from wrestling with performing place for 20 years, and particularly prompted by recent thinking and practice, I want to reposition the performance of place as ‘anatopic practice’and, concomitantly, to offer ‘anatopia’as a term to describe contemporary manifestations of place. This iteration of anatopia helps reconceive and reconcile a temporary locality of place with today’s global context of geopolitical turbulence. Rather than place being assumed as bounded, territorial, and homogenous and set in opposition to a fluid and liquid mobility, I am advocating a reconsideration of place as a subjective experience that conjoins these potential binary positions. A constructive and positive repositioning, this is intended to have traction for embracing and enhancing the way we inhabit and think about place today. Naming and claiming the term anatopia here invites further debate as does renaming performing place practices as anatopic practice.By suggesting my theories of performing place might now be articulated as anatopic performance practices, I am both more precisely describing such work as well as expanding its potential. As I explain below,‘performing place’might be perceived as sitespecific performance or immersive performance, for example. In renaming the practice, it offers more precision, meaning and intention and, in doing so, aligns performing place firmly with socially engaged and applied theatres. In addition, such an iteration invites further interrogation by others in this field,