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Over the course of Edit Kaldor's Inventory of Powerlessness, developed and performed in four European cities (Amsterdam, Berlin, Poznan, Prague) between 2013-16, a range of situations, states and feelings – from quotidian frustrations to extremes of affliction, disadvantage and oppression – were brought into the collective setting of the theatre as spoken testimony. Meanwhile, a cumulative and archivable database or 'inventory' of powerlessness and its contemporary intersections was projected on stage, generated live by the participants at each performance. Thus, individual accounts of powerlessness were placed in relation to others, as acts of living knowledge and as claim upon the shared articulation that theatrical working together can foster. This book, departing from but not confined to the example of Inventory, explores contemporary ways of making and performing that bring marginalised knowledges into appearance and action. The book is not only for students of theatre, performance and art, but for anyone looking to develop ways of processing their experiences of affliction, injustice and violence in a collective setting. The book begins with an in-depth account of the Inventory of Powerlessness theatre project. Analysis of its production processes and dramaturgical strategies is set alongside the voices of several of the participants as well as other collaborators and people associated with the project, focusing on the 'acts of knowledge' that are performed as connections are made and shared – in the contingency of live performance – between diverse life-affecting experiences. A section of commissioned essays explores the knowledge-generating potential of the contemporary stage through the same optic of powerlessness and marginalised experience worked through an international range of examples.

Table of Contents:
List of Figures Notes on Contributors Acknowledgments Introduction: Acts of Knowledge, Joe Kelleher Part 1: THE PERFORMANCE OF THE MANY Inventory of Powerlessness, Edit Kaldor, Karmenlara Ely, Florian Malzacher, and Participants Edit Kaldor in Conversation with Florian Malzacher Democratic Imagination, Kai van Eikels Decoding Powerlessness, Cecilia Vallejos The Rupture of Understanding, Bart Philipsen The Mass, the Multitude and the Network, Frank Theys Part 2: CONVERSATIONS ON POWERLESSNESS Words Doing the Work, Adania Shibli and Edit Kaldor To Be Born as Another, Carolina Bianchi, Blackyva and Carolina Mendonça But What is Human Scale?, Annie Dorsen and Florian Malzacher Inability Creatures, Hannah Hurtzig and Karin Harrasser When We Do Power, Qondiswa James, Kamogelo Molobye and Nondumiso Lwazi Msimanga What Comes Next, Jay Jordan and Kasia Wojcik Your Desire is the Currency They Use Against You, Tania Bruguera and Dan Perjovschi Part 3 THEATRES OF POWERLESSNESS Border Control: Performing Aural Blurring as Testimony, Sharanya M Figuring Powerlessness, Joe Kelleher Index

About the Author :
Edit Kaldor is recognized internationally as a unique voice in the contemporary theatre landscape. She works mostly with nonprofessional performers, mixing documentary and fictional elements, and often integrating the use of digital media. She lives in Amsterdam and works and teaches internationally. Her theatre performances, which stretch considerably the boundaries of theatrical conventions, have been presented in over 30 countries in Europe, the Americas, Asia and North Africa. http://www.editkaldor.com/ Joe Kelleher is Professor of Theatre and Performance at University of Roehampton, London. He is co-editor with Maaike Bleeker, Adrian Kear and Heike Roms of the Methuen Drama series Thinking Through Theatre. His books include The Illuminated Theatre: Studies on the Suffering of Images (Routledge 2015), Theatre & Politics (Palgrave Macmillan 2009) and – with Claudia and Romeo Castellucci, Chiara Guidi and Nicholas Ridout – The Theatre of Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio (Routledge 2007). https://pure.roehampton.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/joe-kelleher

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A delicately structured exploration of powerlessness which like Kaldor's Inventory of Powerless, considers 'one experience through the filter of another'. This collection of conversations and essays offers depth of analysis and an extraordinary breadth of perspectives across multiple voices. Essential reading for anyone seeking insight into contemporary international dramaturgies.


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  • ISBN-13: 9781350233591
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Methuen Drama
  • Language: English
  • Series Title: Thinking Through Theatre
  • ISBN-10: 1350233595
  • Publisher Date: 29 May 2025
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)
  • No of Pages: 256
  • Sub Title: Acts of Knowledge and the Performance of the Many


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