From Bayreuth to Burkina Faso : Christoph Schlingensief's Opera Village Africa as Postcolonial Gesamtkunstwerk? PDF
by Hegenbart Sarah Hegenbart
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The postcolonial Gesamtkunstwerk: Disrupting the Eurocentric perspective on art history and addressing Germany's colonial history
Opera Village Africa, a participatory art experiment by the late German multimediaartist Christoph Schlingensief, serves as a testing ground for a criticalinterrogation of Richard Wagner’s notion of the Gesamtkunstwerk. SarahHegenbart traces the path from Wagner’s introduction of the Gesamtkunstwerkin Bayreuth to Schlingensief’s attempt to charge the idea of the total artworkwith new meaning by transposing it to the West African country Burkina Faso. Schlingensief developed Opera Village in collaboration with theworld-renowned architect Francis Kéré. This final project of Schlingensief isinspired by and illuminates the diverse themes that informed his artisticpractice, including coming to terms with the German past, anti-Semitism,critical race theory, and questions of postcolonial (self-)criticism.
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- Format:PDF
- Pages:294 pages
- Publisher:Universitaire Pers Leuven
- Publication Date:30/11/2022
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- ISBN:9789461664938
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Download Now
- Format:PDF
- Pages:294 pages
- Publisher:Universitaire Pers Leuven
- Publication Date:30/11/2022
- Category:
- ISBN:9789461664938