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  title info:
    title: Performing Southeast Asia
    sub title: performance, politics and the contemporary
  name:
    name part: Tan, Marcus Cheng Chye
    role:
      role term: editor,
    role:
      role term: contributor.
  name:
    name part: Rajendran, Charlene
    name part: 1964-
    role:
      role term: editor,
    role:
      role term: contributor.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: sz
    date issued: 2020
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xv, 294 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
  abstract: "Performing Southeast Asia examines contemporary performance practices and their relationship with politics and governance in Southeast Asia in the twenty-first century. In a region haunted historically by strongman politics, authoritarianism and militarism, religious tension and ethnic strife, the chapters reveal how contemporary theatre and performances in the present reflect yet challenge dominant socio-political discourses. The authors analyse works of political commitment and conviction, created and performed by Southeast Asian artists, as modes and platforms of reaction and resistance to the shifting political climates that inform contemporary life in urban Southeast Asia. The discussions center on issues of state hegemonies and biopolitics, finance and sponsorship, social liberalism and conservatism, the relevance of history and tradition, and globalisation and cultural practice. These diverse yet related concerns converge on an examination of the efficacies of theatre and performance as means of political intervention and transformation that point to alternative embodiments of political consciousness through which artists propose critical options for rethinking the state, citizenship, identity and belonging in a time of seismic socio-political change. The editors also reframe an understanding of 'the contemporary' not simply as a temporal adjective but, in the context of present Southeast Asia, as a geopolitical condition that shapes artistic and performance practices." -- Publisher's website.
  table of contents: 1. Politics, performance, the contemporary and Southeast Asia / Marcus Cheng Chye Tan and Charlene Rajendran -- 2. 'Yesterday's dreams, tomorrow's promise': performing a pan-ASEAN archipelagic identity at age 50 / William Peterson and Reagan Romero Maiquez -- 3. 'Pornography disguised as art': bare/d bodies, biopolitics and multicultural tolerance in Singapore / Marcus Cheng Chye Tan -- 4. Baling in a time of BERSIH: embodying historical transcripts as enactments of resistance / Charlene Rajendran -- 5. Staging the banality of social evil : Faust and/in Philippine contemporary social politics / Sir Anril Pineda Tiatco -- 6. A transformative theatre of dialogue: the Makhampom theatre group's negotiation of Thailand's Likay (Theatre) state / Richard Barber and Pongjit Saphakhun -- 7. Intervention, openness and ownership: interview with Ong Keng Sen on festival dramaturgy / Charlene Rajendran -- 8. Wayang kontemporer: the politics of sponsorship and innovation / Miguel Escobar Varela -- 9. Authenticity and contemporary musical theatre in Thailand / Wankwan Polachan -- 10. Bangsokol: A requiem for Cambodia-the politics of memory and an aesthetics of remembrance / Marcus Cheng Chye Tan -- 11. The wheres and whys of Southeast Asia: art and performance in the locating of Southeast Asia today / Farish A. Noor.
  note: Marcus Cheng Chye Tan, Charlene Rajendran, editors.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: as-----
  subject:
    topic: Theater
    topic: Political aspects
    geographic: Southeast Asia
    topic: History
    temporal: 21st century
  subject:
    topic: Performing arts
    topic: Political aspects
    geographic: Southeast Asia
    topic: History
    temporal: 21st century
  subject:
    topic: Theater and society
  classification: PN2860 .P47 2020
  classification: 792.095
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Contemporary performance interactions
  identifier: 9783030346850
  identifier: 3030346854
  identifier: 9783030346867
  location:
    physical location: pda,print
  record info:
    record content source: SINIE
    record creation date: 200304
    record change date: 20250318223414.5
    record identifier: in00004160951
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng