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- Bäckström, Anders, 1954-
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Spelrum gatan : Strategier, gränser och motsättningar i spelhändelser genomförda på 2010-talets Södermalm i Stockholm
- 2023
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The aim of the thesis is to shed light on the processes produced when collective performances, here conceptualized as playing events, are performed in urban space in a specific city area, Södermalm in Stockholm between 2012 and 2017. By analyzing urban space as a changing and contradictory space, the study shows how playing events transform everyday space into a playing space. The transformation is decoded through the observation of playing strategies, embodied in the visual and auditory markings of the participating bodies. The study proposes the use of terms based on the verb playing. The term playing event is used in the thesis to refer to collective performances outside a regular theatre context. The use of the term broadens the understanding of what can be included in the concept of theatre. A theoretical pillar is formed by the theatre scholar Willmar Sauter's theory of the theatrical event, developed in the thesis through the concept of playing event. The second framework is provided by sociologist Henri Lefebvre's theories of social space and the right to the city. The study discusses the question of intervention, legality and civil disobedience and how embodied collectivity can emerge as an alternative to the gentrified lifestyle, which is growing strong, in terms of individualization and commodification, in Södermalm in the 21st century. The material of the thesis consists of four mobile playing events: The Supporter´s March, which is a football supporter´s event, secondly, a Catholic procession called Lord of the Miracles of Nazarenas, thirdly, the bicycle manifestation Critical Mass and finally The Pride Parade, a well-known street parade celebrating the hbtqi-community. These four events occupy the urban street with different strategies, thereby producing a variety of border crossings and contradictions. The thesis decodes communication processes between players and spectators and uncovers the dynamic processes between everyday life and playfulness that is produced during performances. The study is the first in the Swedish language to consistently use designations based on the verb playing for collective performances. It is the first study in the Swedish language to analyze, from a perspective of theatre studies, strategies, boundaries and contradictions in urban space when playing events are performed.
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- Neuhauser, Charlott, 1961-
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Fruktansvärd, ospelad och nyskriven - kriser och konflikter kring ny svensk dramatik : från Gustav III:s originaldramatik till dagens beställningsdramatik
- 2016
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The issue of this thesis concerns a selection of historical debates in which new Swedish drama is under discussion. The studied debates take place in the cultural and political fields and within the fields of theater and literature and deal with a recurring assumption in Swedish theatre history – that new Swedish drama is insufficient. The primary object of this thesis is to find explanations to: why is the Swedish new drama so often described as defective? The following questions, guiding the analysis, are: How are the crises described? What are the stakes? How has the dramatic text been influenced by being judged either as literary product or a product for the stage? How is the playwright’s role described, and perhaps changed, in the crises? The aim of the analysis is to understand how traditions and conventions are shaping the debates and contribute to perpetrate the myth of the malfunctioning Swedish new play.In a historical perspective several attempts have been made to govern new Swedish drama by legislative and political power. New Swedish drama has, for example, been viewed as a possible expression of the nation, as part of shaping the Swedish Welfare state or creating interactive communication with the audience. Despite its many uses, new Swedish drama continues to be describes as flawed.The study starts with King Gustav III:s Swedish theatre where the purpose was to produce Swedish original plays. The study ends with an analysis of a new government grant for new Swedish drama, which was installed in 1999. The chosen debates are analyzed with the help of concepts borrowed from the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu, looking at each historical situation as a possible moment for the establishment of the field ”new Swedish drama”. The survey ends with eight interviews with playwrights, who are active today.The conditions for the new Swedish drama are the guiding line in this thesis. These conditions are found in the cultural, social and historical contexts that cooperate when a taste or convention is being shaped. They are part of the discourses in the field, where criteria for the new Swedish drama is formulated. In order to understand the significance of, for example, the expression, ”the newly written Swedish drama” research has been pursued in biographical material, historical surveys, and debates in the daily press and in professional journals.Without being a full bourdieuan analysis, the thesis is using concepts from Bourdieu. The work of British feminist theatre historian Tracy C Davis inspires the critical historic perspective.
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- Skjoldager-Nielsen, Kim, 1971-
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Over the Threshold, Into the World : Experiences of Transcendence in the Context of Staged Events
- 2018
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The aim of the thesis is to develop an apparatus of theory and method for performance analysis, the purpose of which is to analyse potentials for experiences of transcendence. These experiences are contextualised in terms of the metaphysical, the religious, and the spiritual. The theoretical basis is a combination of Erika Fischer-Lichte’s the aesthetics of the performative and Dorthe Jørgensen’s metaphysics of experience. In the development of the theoretical discussion, a variety of experiences is explored in the context of contemporary theatre, ritual, and installation art in Sweden, Denmark, and Aotearoa New Zealand. The dissertation contributes to the methodology of performance analysis as it emphasises experience as research, and to the interdisciplinary research field of performance, religion, and spirituality, as it draws on theatre and performance studies, philosophical aesthetics, philosophy of religion, theology, sociology, and anthropology.The result is a practical model that allows the analysis of experiences of transcendence as created in the staged event through the complex interplay of material properties of staging and cognitive capacities for experience in the spectator’s or congregant’s process of reception – all of which are conditioned by the event’s contexts.
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