Performing Ruins

by Simon Murray

This book engages with the relationship between ruins, dilapidation, and abandonment and cultural events performed within such spaces. Following the author's fieldwork in the UK, Bosnia Herzegovina, Poland, Germany, Greece, and Sicily, chapters describe, investigate, and reflect upon live performance events which have taken place in sites of decay and abandonment. The book's main focus is upon modern economic ruins and ruins of warfare. Each chapter...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030406423
• ISBN13: 9783030406424
• Release Date: August 2020
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 316 Pages
• Weight: 1.21 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.3"