Hegenbart Sarah Hegenbart

From Bayreuth to Burkina Faso (eBook, PDF)

Christoph Schlingensief's Opera Village Africa as Postcolonial Gesamtkunstwerk?

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Produktbeschreibung

The postcolonial Gesamtkunstwerk: Disrupting the Eurocentric perspective on art history and addressing Germany's colonial history Opera Village Africa, a participatory art experiment by the late German multimediaartist Christoph Schlingensief, serves as a testing ground for a criticalinterrogation of Richard Wagner's notion of the Gesamtkunstwerk. SarahHegenbart traces the path from Wagner's introduction of the Gesamtkunstwerkin Bayreuth to Schlingensief's attempt to charge the idea of the total artworkwith new meaning by transposing it to the West African country Burkina Faso. Schlingensief developed Opera Village in collaboration with theworld-renowned architect Francis Kr. This final project of Schlingensief isinspired by and illuminates the diverse themes that informed his artisticpractice, including coming to terms with the German past, anti-Semitism,critical race theory, and questions of postcolonial (self-)criticism.From Bayreuth to Burkina Faso introduces the notion of the postcolonial Gesamtkunstwerk to disrupt the Eurocentric perspective on art history, exploring how the socio-political force of a postcolonial Gesamtkunstwerk could affect processes of transcultural identity construction. It reveals how Schlingensief translocated the Wagnerian concept to Burkina Faso to address German colonial history and engage with it from the perspective of multidirectional memory cultures.This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content).

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Universitaire Pers Leuven
• Seitenzahl: 294
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9789461664938
• Artikelnr.: 72350205

Autorenporträt

Sarah Hegenbart is lecturer in art history at Technical University of Munich and previously acted as a substitute for the professorship of art research with a focus on contemporary arts at the Braunschweig University of Art (HBK Braunschweig). She is a member of 'Die Junge Akademie Mainz' and member of the consortium of the Horizon 2020 research project 'Art and Research on Transformations of Individuals and Societies'.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction Opera of Ambiguities
Chapter One Egomania - Germany Without Hope? Rectifying the impression that
Schlingensief staged a Wagnerian Gesamtkunstwerk at the Venice Biennial
2011
Chapter Two From Bayreuth to Burkina Faso: Stripping the Gesamtkunstwerk
of its German coordinates
Chapter Three The Mission of a Contemporary Parsifal: Redeeming Germany in
Burkina Faso
Chapter Four Revolving Opera and Psychic Interiors: The Animatograph
Chapter Five Readymade and Azione Scenica: Schlingensief's Expanded
Definition of Opera
Chapter Six Opera Village as postcolonial Gesamtkunstwerk?
Conclusion The Gesamtkunstwerk: Smashed or revived?
Notes Bibliography Index