Performing Cities - Hardcover

Performing Cities is an edited volume of contributions by a range of internationally renowned academics and performance makers from across the globe, each one covering a particular city and examining it from the dynamic points of view of performances occurring in cities and the city itself as performance. Cities covered are Jerusalem, Singapore, Belgrade, Los Angeles, Cape Town, Toronto, Paris, Bogotá, Cardiff, Chicago, Sydney and Palermo. Above all the book explores the possibilities of writing itself as a spatial practice that does justice to the city as a place of multiple movements. Where urban writing has for so long been dominated by textual readings of the city - as seen in the hackneyed trope of the 'city as text' - the case is made here for a move towards a form of situational, relational and performative writing that is premised on the multifarious inflections of bodies and actions in space.

Sue-Ellen Case University of California, Los Angeles, USA María Estrada-Fuentes, University of Warwick, UK Mark Fleishman, University of Cape Town, South Africa Matthew Goulish, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA Silvija Jestrovic, University of Warwick, UK Carl Lavery, University of Glasgow, UK Laura Levin, York University, Canada Gay McAuley, University of Sydney, Australia Jay Pather, University of Cape Town, South Africa Mike Pearson, Aberystwyth University, UK Paul Rae, University of Melbourne, Australia Freddie Rokem, Tel Aviv University, Israel Heike Roms, Aberystwyth University, UK David Williams, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK