Contemporary Performance and Political Economy

This book examines haunting concepts, relations, and artworks that demand our attention. Its premise is that, under capitalism, political and ethical considerations are subordinated to economic ones, and this subordination creates ghost worlds.

Katerina Paramana is Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Theatre and Performance at Brunel University of London, UK. She is co-editor of Performance, Dance and Political Economy: Bodies at the End of the World and of Art and Dance in Dialogue, founding book series co-editor of Dance in Dialogue, and founding editor of the "Political Economy and the Arts" Section at Lateral, the Cultural Studies Association Journal.

Acknowledgements Introduction: Oikonomia as a New Ethico-Political Paradigm Chapter 1 Constructing Spaces of Decision, Affect, and Creative Possibility: Jérôme Bel's Economies and Encounters Chapter 2 Failing Resistances and Neoliberal Subjects: Individual and Collective Experiments Towards Alternative Politico-Economic Models in Tino Sehgal's These Associations Chapter 3 The Animation of Contemporary Subjectivity: Imagining a World Beyond the Present with Tino Sehgal's Ann Lee Chapter 4 Capitalist and Ethical Critiques: Santiago Sierra's Ghosts and Relentless Mirror Chapter 5 The Oscillation of Contemporary Bodies Between Biopolitics and Necropolitics: Tania Bruguera's Wrestling with Power Structures for the Creation of Alternative Futures Chapter 6 Replacing Experiments, Re-Writing Fictions: Closing Thoughts Bibliography Index