Performativity and Event in 1960s Japan City, Body, Memory
Performativity and Event in 1960s Japan considers the artists and events in 1960s Japan. In response to the social upheavals of the 1960s, it shows how art interacted with society in unique and transformational ways, nterweaving arguments about the critic
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Other titles by Peter Eckersall KAWAMURA TAKESHI’S NIPPON WARS AND OTHER PLAYS (2011) THEATRE AND PERFORMANCE IN THE ASIA-PACIFIC: Regional Modernities in the Global Era (co-authored with Denise Varney, Barbara Hatley and Chris Hudson, 2013) THEORISING THE ANGURA SPACE: Avant-Garde Performance and Politics in Japan 1960–2000 (2006)
Performativity and Event in 1960s Japan City, Body, Memory Peter Eckersall University of Melbourne, Australia
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Contents List of Figures
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Acknowledgements
vii
Introduction 1
1
Zero Jigen’s Pre-expressive Utopian Body: Ritual Theory and Urban Transformation
15
2
Butoh Cine Dance and the Remediated Sixties
37
3
Singing Yokoo Tadanori: Ichiyanagi Toshi, the City, and the Aesthetics of Listening
61
4
Performing Revolution at Shinjuku Plaza
81
5
The Osaka Exposition: Bodies and the Impossible Utopia
106
6
Memory and City: Port B and the Tokyo Olympics
132
Closing: Transforming Everydayness
161
Notes
165
References
169
Index
179
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List of Figures 5.1 Scale model of the Expo ’70 site. Expo ’70 Exhibition. The National Museum of Nature and Science (Kokuritsu Kagaku Hakubutsukan), 2009 5.2 Australia Pavilion hosts pose
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