Moving Islands reveals the international and intercultural connections within contemporary performance from Oceania, focusing on theater, performance art, art installations, dance, film, and activist performance in sites throughout Oceania and in Australia, Asia, North America, and Europe. Diana Looser's study moves beyond a predictable country-specific or island-specific focus to encompass an entire region defined by diversity and global exchange, showing how performance operates to frame social, artistic, and political relationships across widely dispersed locations. The study also demonstrates how Oceanian performance contributes to international debates about diaspora, indigeneity, urbanization, and environmental sustainability. The author considers the region's unique cultural and geographic dynamics as she brings forth the paradigm of transpasifika to suggest a way of understanding these intercultural exchanges and connections, with the aim to "rework the cartographic and disciplinary priorities of transpacific studies to privilege the activities of Islander peoples."
| ISBN: | 9780472132386 |
| Publication date: | 30th September 2021 |
| Author: | Diana Looser |
| Publisher: | The University of Michigan Press an imprint of University of Michigan Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 358 pages |
| Series: | Theater: Theory/text/performance |
| Genres: |
Theatre studies History of Performing Arts |
Moving Islands reveals the international and intercultural connections within contemporary performance from Oceania, focusing on theater, performance art, art installations, dance, film, and activist performance in sites throughout Oceania and in Australia, Asia, North America, and Europe. Diana Looser's study moves beyond a predictable country-specific or island-specific focus to encompass an entire region defined by diversity and global exchange, showing how performance operates to frame social, artistic, and political relationships across widely dispersed locations. The study also demonstrates how Oceanian performance contributes to international debates about diaspora, indigeneity, urbanization, and environmental sustainability. The author considers the region's unique cultural and geographic dynamics as she brings forth the paradigm of transpasifika to suggest a way of understanding these intercultural exchanges and connections, with the aim to "rework the cartographic and disciplinary priorities of transpacific studies to privilege the activities of Islander peoples."
Moving Islands features in the following genres: Theatre studies, History of Performing Arts
Moving Islands is available in Hardback
Moving Islands was written by Diana Looser and published by The University of Michigan Press an imprint of University of Michigan Press
Moving Islands has 358 pages
Yes it is part of Theater: Theory/text/performance series