This volume is a collection of scholarly articles and interviews with
intermedial artists working with the concepts of public sphere at the
intersection of aesthetics and politics. It explores the response of
socially-engaged artistic practices to the current crisis in politics
and media. It also critically examines urgent issues such as rampant
nationalism and populism, expanding neoliberalism, the refugee crisis,
growing inosculations of corporate and cyber culture, and the ongoing
geopolitical changes in the Middle East. Can intermedial performances
reflect the present artistic and political dilemmas in Europe and
beyond?
The collection provides theoretical frameworks that interrogate the role
that spectators as citizens can play in our mediatized world while
focusing on the functions of immersion, participation, and civic
engagement in contemporary performance and society. The collection
provides analyses by international scholars from Europe, Asia, and the
USA, covering global performance created in the twenty-first century. It
also introduces interviews with internationally acclaimed intermedial
artists and companies such as BERLIN, Rimini Protokoll, Dries Verhoeven,
Akira Takayama, and Kris Verdonck.