Wittgenstein and Performance

Mischa Twitchin

doi:10.5771/9781538175101

Summary

Embodying Wittgenstein’s own aphorism of “you’d be surprised,” this collection of original essays by both artists and academics explores the significance of Wittgenstein’s writings across a diverse field of performance practices, including poetics and choreography, theatre, and psychotherapy, as well as reflections on political thought and ChatGPT.

Fundamentally, the collection shifts the discussion of philosophy and performance away from the well-established distinction between Analytic and Continental traditions to offer examples of Wittgenstein’s inspiration in and for the different practices that are explored in each essay. Between Wittgenstein’s proposals in the Tractatus that “the world is all that is the case” and in the Philosophical Investigations that “words are also deeds,” how might the thought of philosophical questions already inform those of and for performance? How do conceptions of the limits of the one articulate those of the other? And how might such questions be not simply a matter of philosophy or performance alone, but indeed of and for performance philosophy?

Contributors: Né Barros, Charles Bernstein, Simon Bowes, Jonathan Burrows, Miles Champion, Will Daddario, Veronika Darida, Françoise Davoine, Peter S. Dillard, Signe Gjessing, Kenneth Goldsmith, Derek Gottlieb, Anthony Howell, Sam Kinchin-Smith, Alice Lagaay, Sue MacLaine, Ray Monk, Bernard Müller, Marjorie Perloff, Tom Raworth, Max Richter, Bo Tarenskeen, The Aesthetics Group (Dublin), Mischa Twitchin, Lukas M. Verburgt, Peter Verburgt.

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Copyright year: 2024
ISBN-Print: 978-1-5381-7509-5
ISBN-Online: 978-1-5381-7510-1
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 266
Product type: Edited Book

1. Contents No access
1. References No access
1. Poiesis and Family Resemblance No access
2. Persistence No access
3. References No access
1. Debunking Debunking No access
2. Notes No access
1. Point Zero No access
2. Point Zero, One No access
3. Notes No access
4. References No access
5. 1. Miles Champion No access
1. Don’t Think, But Look! No access
2. From Beyer to Pragmatism to Devising (Philosophizing Theatre through Making Philosophical Theatre) No access
3. While We’re at It: To Look ≠ To See No access
4. Think Of Dead Cats Look! Dead Cats!! No access
5. Look! Racial Politics! No access
6. Look! A White! No access
7. Notes No access
8. References No access
1. The Theatre of Ludwig Wittgenstein No access
2. Josef Nadj’s Invisible Theatre No access
3. Notes No access
4. References No access
1. Theatre of War No access
2. Encounter with Wittgenstein No access
3. A New Performance for the Healing of Traumas No access
4. When the Tool with the Name ‘N’ Is Broken No access
5. Note No access
6. Bibliography No access
1. Prologue No access
2. Act 1 No access
3. Intermission No access
4. Act 2 No access
5. Epilogue No access
6. Notes No access
1. Addenda from the Q&A with the Audience No access
1. Editor’s Note by Mischa Twitchin No access
1. Introduction No access
2. Language and Relationality in the Later Wittgenstein No access
3. The Rough Ground and the Scene of Politics No access
4. The Fly Bottle and the Others of Politics No access
5. Twisting Fibre on Fibre No access
6. Conclusion No access
7. Notes No access
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1. Discussions around Theatre No access
2. From Structure to the ‘Logic Of Situation’ (Logique De Situation) No access
3. The Anthropological Hypothesis (Reducing Difference) No access
4. From Frame to Drama, from Stage to Fieldwork No access
5. Putting on Stage and into Narration No access
6. Notes No access
1. A Concern for Difference No access
2. ‘Ordinary Language Is All Right’ No access
3. Language Games No access
4. Art, Not the Artist No access
5. Notes No access
6. 1. Tom Raworth No access
Chapter 15: On Performing Wittgenstein No access Pages 191 - 198
1. Introduction: The Proposition of the Tableau No access
2. Describing the Scene: I See Birds Flying Over the White House (2017) No access
3. The Hybrid Aesthetic Form of Tableau Vivants No access
4. The Conditions of the Tableau in Wittgenstein No access
5. Conclusion: Presenting I See Birds Flying Over the White House ‘like a tableau vivant’ No access
6. Notes No access
7. References No access
1. References No access
1. Wittgenstein Incorporated No access
2. This text was written as an exercise in another’s thinking… No access
Index No access Pages 257 - 260
About the Contributors No access Pages 261 - 266