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This volume investigates performance cultures as rich and dynamic environments of knowledge practice through which distinctive epistemologies are continuously (re)generated, cultivated and celebrated. Epistemologies are dynamic formations of rules, tools and procedures not only for understanding but also for doing knowledges.
This volume deals in particular with epistemological challenges posed by practices and processes of interweaving performance cultures. These challenges arise in artistic and academic contexts because of hierarchies between epistemologies. European colonialism worked determinedly, violently and often with devastating effects on instituting and sustaining a hegemony of modern Euro-American rules of knowing in many parts of the world. Therefore, Interweaving Epistemologies critically interrogates the (im)possibilities of interweaving epistemologies in artistic and academic contexts today. Writing from diverse geographical locations and knowledge cultures, the book's contributors—philosophers and political scientists as well as practitioners and scholars of theater, performance and dance—investigate prevailing forms of epistemic ignorance and violence. They introduce key concepts and theories that enable critique of unequal power relations between epistemologies. Moreover, contributions explore historical cases of interweaving epistemologies and examine innovative present-day methods of working across and through epistemological divides in nonhegemonic, sustainable, creative and critical ways.
Ideal for practitioners, students and researchers of theater, performance and dance, Interweaving Epistemologies emphasizes the urgent need to acknowledge, study and promote epistemological plurality and diversity in practices of performance-making as well as in scholarship on theater and performance around the globe today.
Contents
Acknowledgments
List of Figures
Contributor Bios
Introduction: Performance Cultures as Epistemic Cultures — Developing Inter-Epistemic Approaches and Methodologies
Torsten Jost
PART I - Concepts, theories and methods
The Cognitive Empire: Epistemic Injustices and Resurgent Decolonization
Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni
Principles of Interweaving Epistemologies
Sundar Sarukkai
Reconstituting the Destituted: How Decolonial and De-Western Interweaving Works
Walter D. Mignolo
PART II - Analyzing inter-epistemic performances
Confronting the Colonial Matrix of Power: Critical Intersections of Interculturality and Decoloniality in Performance Practice
Rustom Bharucha
Staging Border Epistemologies: The Cross-Cultural Cartographies of an Artwork (Berlin, Galway, Seoul)
Andrej Mirčev
Performance as Method: Critical Approaches to Western Episteme
Małgorzata Sugiera
PART III - Exploring inter-epistemic histories
Complex Smoking: On Brecht, Tobacco and Bourgeois Philosophy
Nicholas Ridout
The Epistemic Politics of Indian Classical Dance
Anurima Banerji
Performance or "Comportamento"? Interweaving the Names and Epistemologies of Performance Art in 1970s Italy
Tancredi Gusman
Epilogue: Decolonial Aesthetics in Theater and Performance — Theatrical Strategies of Delinking
Rustom Bharucha, Walter Mignolo, Torsten Jost and Christel Weiler
Index
