{"id":2807,"date":"2015-07-03T14:01:18","date_gmt":"2015-07-03T14:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecpr.org.uk\/?post_type=product&p=2807"},"modified":"2016-02-19T14:55:23","modified_gmt":"2016-02-19T14:55:23","slug":"20-3-on-ruins-and-ruination","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/thecpr.org.uk\/product\/20-3-on-ruins-and-ruination\/","title":{"rendered":"20.3 On Ruins and Ruination"},"content":{"rendered":"

In recent years there has been an explosion of interest in ruins and ruination by artists and theorists. But where does our contemporary fascination with ruins come from? What are its causes and contradictions, along with its politics, economics, ecologics? \u00a0Why now? How does it relate to other historical epoques, no less beset with what Rose Macaulay termed\u00a0ruinenlust<\/em>? And, perhaps most urgently, what are we meant do with this decay? How to live in a world of ruins? While many of these questions have been approached by different disciplines and subject fields, this edition of\u00a0Performance Research<\/em>\u00a0sets out to explore the specific contribution that Theatre and Performance Studies, with its unique methodologies and practices, might make to our current obsession with ruins and ruination.\u00a0 Contributions include essays on photography, writing, theatre-making, ecology, aesthetics, autobiography, dark tourism, heritage sites and cities.<\/p>\n

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Introduction
\nCarl Lavery, Richard Gough<\/p>\n

The Lesson of Anatomy 1974\/2014
\nMike Pearson<\/p>\n

The Regenerative Ruination of Romeo Castellucci
\nTimmy De Laet, Edith Cassiers<\/p>\n

Ruin Lust and the Council Estate : Nostalgia and ruin in Arinze Kene\u2019s God\u2019s Property
\nKatie Beswick<\/p>\n

\u2018Terremoto: Utopia, memory, and the unfinished in Sicily’
\nDavid Williams<\/p>\n

Watermarked : \u2018Venice really lives up to its postcard beauty\u2019
\nNicolas Whybrow<\/p>\n

The Ruin in Question
\nHayden Lorimer, Simon Murray<\/p>\n

Sites of Dereliction : Beginnings and allies of performance
\nPhil Smith<\/p>\n

Tr\u00fcmmer Geographies : Teufelsberg as a site of forgetting
\nBenedict Anderson<\/p>\n

Ruined Landscapes and Residual Architecture : Affect and palimpsest in trauma tourism
\nLaurie Beth Clark<\/p>\n

The Ruin as Memorial \u2013 The Memorial as Ruin
\nSilke Arnold-de Simine<\/p>\n

St Peter\u2019s Seminary, Cardross : The ruin of modernism
\nDavid Archibald, Johnny Rodger<\/p>\n

A Future for Hashima : Pornography, representation and time
\nCarl Lavery, Lee Hassall<\/p>\n

Photography, Performance, Ruin : Performing photography in site of architecture
\nIan Wiblin<\/p>\n

Cruising the Queer Ruins of New York\u2019s Abandoned Waterfront
\nFiona Anderson<\/p>\n

Ruins Recast : Appropriated and fabricated ruins in the work of Scott Myles
\nDominic Paterson<\/p>\n

Artist’s pages
\nEleanor Bowen<\/p>\n

Genet\u2019s Cycle of Ruins
\nEsther Belvis Pons<\/p>\n

Quake City
\nSharon Mazer<\/p>\n

Ruin Hermeneutic
\nSophie Sleigh-Johnson<\/p>\n

Excavating Performance Contexts : Performative Monuments: The rematerialisation of public art by Mechtild Widrich (review)
\nJessica Santone<\/p>\n\n\n